linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/12] KVM: MMU: move MMU role accessors to header

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Date:   Thu, 10 Feb 2022 23:00:41 +0000
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        vkuznets@...hat.com, mlevitsk@...hat.com, dmatlack@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/12] KVM: MMU: move MMU role accessors to header

On Wed, Feb 09, 2022, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> We will use is_cr0_pg to check whether a page fault can be delivered.

I strongly prefer we keep these MMU-only, the terse names were deemed safe
specifically because they are encapsulated in mmu.c.  The async #PF case can use
is_paging(vcpu).