linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: check match table

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Message-ID: <20170930232234.ue665ojgjkegjpag@lostoracle.net>
Date:   Sat, 30 Sep 2017 16:22:34 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@...il.com>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:     Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>, kay@...y.org,
        avi@...hat.com, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: check match table

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 02:36:03PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 26/09/2017 19:12, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > Does this make any other checks redundant and removable?
> 
> It would make sense to place it in cpu_has_kvm_support instead

cpu_has_kvm_support() or cpu_has_vmx()?

>, and the same in svm.c's has_svm.

I don't follow (but I also don't know what any of these three letter
acryonyms acronyms stand for), does svm depend on vmx or vice-versa?