linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/9] KVM: Pass kvm_init()'s opaque param to additional arch funcs

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Message-ID: <20200324011854.GC5604@blackberry>
Date:   Tue, 24 Mar 2020 12:18:54 +1100
From:   Paul Mackerras <paulus@...abs.org>
To:     Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        Janosch Frank <frankja@...ux.ibm.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Julien Thierry <julien.thierry.kdev@...il.com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm-ppc@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/9] KVM: Pass kvm_init()'s opaque param to additional
 arch funcs

On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 01:25:55PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Pass @opaque to kvm_arch_hardware_setup() and
> kvm_arch_check_processor_compat() to allow architecture specific code to
> reference @opaque without having to stash it away in a temporary global
> variable.  This will enable x86 to separate its vendor specific callback
> ops, which are passed via @opaque, into "init" and "runtime" ops without
> having to stash away the "init" ops.
> 
> No functional change intended.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>
> Tested-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com> #s390
> Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>

Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...abs.org>