linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KVM: remove redundant code in kvm_arch_vm

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Date:   Mon, 21 Oct 2019 10:56:21 +0200
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
Cc:     rkrcmar@...hat.com, sean.j.christopherson@...el.com,
        vkuznets@...hat.com, wanpengli@...cent.com, jmattson@...gle.com,
        joro@...tes.org, mingo@...hat.com, bp@...en8.de, hpa@...or.com,
        x86@...nel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: remove redundant code in kvm_arch_vm_ioctl

On 21/10/19 10:16, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Can you please get rid of that odd jump label completely?
> 
>   		if (irqchip_kernel(kvm))
> 			r = kvm_vm_ioctl_set_irqchip(kvm, chip);

Keeping the label has the advantage of making the get and set cases a
bit more similar (the get case has to do a copy_to_user after
kvm_vm_ioctl_get_irqchip returns).  Unfortunately struct kvm_irqchip is
quite big (520 bytes) so we don't allocate it on the stack.

So I queued Miaohe's patch.

Paolo