linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 08/18] KVM: x86/mmu: do not pass vcpu to root freeing functions

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Message-ID: <Yg/n8dC7Umd5x0m6@google.com>
Date:   Fri, 18 Feb 2022 18:39:45 +0000
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 08/18] KVM: x86/mmu: do not pass vcpu to root freeing
 functions

On Thu, Feb 17, 2022, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> These functions only operate on a given MMU, of which there are two in a vCPU.

Technically 3, but one is only used to walk guest pages tables ;-)

> They also need a struct kvm in order to lock the mmu_lock, but they do not
> needed anything else in the struct kvm_vcpu.  So, pass the vcpu->kvm directly
> to them.

Wrapping at ~75 chars is preferred for changelogs.

> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>