linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Access @flags as a 32-bit value in __vmx_vcpu

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Date:   Fri, 18 Nov 2022 19:17:13 -0800
From:   Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Access @flags as a 32-bit value in __vmx_vcpu_run()

On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 5:33 PM Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> Access @flags using 32-bit operands when saving and testing @flags for
> VMX_RUN_VMRESUME, as using 8-bit operands is unnecessarily fragile due
> to relying on VMX_RUN_VMRESUME being in bits 0-7.  The behavior of
> treating @flags a single byte is a holdover from when the param was
> "bool launched", i.e. is not deliberate.
>
> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>