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

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Message-ID: <20160608134620.GA21374@gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 8 Jun 2016 15:46:20 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
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


* Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com> wrote:

> > 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!

Sounds good to me, thanks!

	Ingo