linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: replace "fall through" with "return true" to indicate different case

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Date:   Tue, 18 Feb 2020 17:25:23 +0100
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, linmiaohe <linmiaohe@...wei.com>,
        rkrcmar@...hat.com, sean.j.christopherson@...el.com,
        vkuznets@...hat.com, wanpengli@...cent.com, jmattson@...gle.com,
        joro@...tes.org, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com,
        bp@...en8.de, hpa@...or.com
Cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: replace "fall through" with "return true" to
 indicate different case

On 18/02/20 04:42, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-02-18 at 11:39 +0800, linmiaohe wrote:
>> The second "/* fall through */" in rmode_exception() makes code harder to
>> read. Replace it with "return true" to indicate they are different cases
>> and also this improves the readability.
> []
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
> []
>> @@ -4495,7 +4495,7 @@ static bool rmode_exception(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int vec)
>>  		if (vcpu->guest_debug &
>>  			(KVM_GUESTDBG_SINGLESTEP | KVM_GUESTDBG_USE_HW_BP))
>>  			return false;
>> -		/* fall through */
>> +		return true;
> 
> perhaps
> 		return !(vcpu->guest_debug & (KVM_GUESTDBG_SINGLESTEP | KVM_GUESTDBG_USE_HW_BP));

Nice, thanks Joe.

Paolo