linux-kernel - Re: [PART1 V5 07/13] KVM: x86: Detect and Initialize AVIC support

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Message-ID: <573213BB.40001@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 10 May 2016 19:00:43 +0200
From:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:	Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@....com>,
	rkrcmar@...hat.com, joro@...tes.org, gleb@...nel.org,
	alex.williamson@...hat.com, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, wei@...hat.com,
	sherry.hurwitz@....com
Subject: Re: [PART1 V5 07/13] KVM: x86: Detect and Initialize AVIC support



On 10/05/2016 18:24, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Sure but how can one even read that?
> 
> AVIC_PHYSICAL_ID_ENTRY_HOST_PHYSICAL_ID_MASK
> 
> AVIC's physical ID entry's host's physical ID's mask?
> 
> That sucks in any language :-)

If you read it backwards, that's the

        Mask
      for the host physical id
    in entries of
  the physical ID table
(an AVIC thing).

Quite a mouthful, can't deny that.  But I'm sure Germans would
appreciate it.

Paolo "Rindfleischetikettierungsueberwachungsaufgabenuebertragungsgesetz"