linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/4] KVM: SVM: Add a comment to clarify what vcpu

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Message-Id: <20210406171811.4043363-4-seanjc@google.com>
Date:   Tue,  6 Apr 2021 10:18:10 -0700
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Cathy Avery <cavery@...hat.com>,
        Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] KVM: SVM: Add a comment to clarify what vcpu_svm.vmcb
 points at

Add a comment above the declaration of vcpu_svm.vmcb to call out that it
is simply a shorthand for current_vmcb->ptr.  The myriad accesses to
svm->vmcb are quite confusing without this crucial detail.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
index 2173fe985104..b230950c1aa6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ struct svm_nested_state {
 
 struct vcpu_svm {
 	struct kvm_vcpu vcpu;
+	/* vmcb always points at current_vmcb->ptr, it's purely a shorthand. */
 	struct vmcb *vmcb;
 	struct kvm_vmcb_info vmcb01;
 	struct kvm_vmcb_info *current_vmcb;
-- 
2.31.0.208.g409f899ff0-goog