linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 07/11] KVM: SVM: do not allocate struct svm_cpu

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Date:   Wed, 9 Nov 2022 17:00:43 +0100
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        thomas.lendacky@....com, jmattson@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/11] KVM: SVM: do not allocate struct svm_cpu_data
 dynamically

On 11/9/22 16:58, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> At some point we should replace the vcpu->cpu usage with this_cpu_ptr().  All of
> the code that does per_cpu_ptr(&svm_data, vcpu->cpu) is doomed if vcpu->cpu isn't
> the current CPU.

Yes, I agree with all your other comments but I think they're better 
done in next.

Paolo