linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/entry: Avoid interrupt flag save and restore

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Message-ID: <1855965895.20836430.1465393198716.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 8 Jun 2016 09:39:58 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/entry: Avoid interrupt flag save and restore

> So I believe it would be cleaner to name the irqs-off code paths explicitly:
> __guest_enter_irqsoff(), and propagate that naming into other parts as well?

Ok, I'll send v2 with both the KVM cleanups and the entry optimizations.  It should
be four patches putting all things together.  Thanks for the review!

Paolo