linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC v1 02/20] KVM: x86: Refactor GPR accessors to differentiate register access types

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Message-ID: <ec2aa287-b8b2-4a60-b0fa-757588ea236a@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:19:37 -0800
From: "Chang S. Bae" <chang.seok.bae@...el.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC: <seanjc@...gle.com>, <chao.gao@...el.com>, <zhao1.liu@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v1 02/20] KVM: x86: Refactor GPR accessors to
 differentiate register access types

On 11/11/2025 10:08 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> Do not inline these, they're quite large.  Leave them in x86.c.
> 
> Also please add a KVM_APX Kconfig symbol and add "select KVM_APX if 
> X86_64" to KVM_INTEL.
> 
> This way, AMD and 32-bit use the same logic to elide all the EGPR code.

Yeah, that makes sense. Here is diff on top of this patch:
View attachment "PATCH2.diff" of type "text/plain" (3739 bytes)