Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] nSVM: introduce smv->nested.save to cache save area fields

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 29/09/21 00:23, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On a related topic, this would be a good opportunity to resolve the naming
> discrepancies between VMX and SVM.  VMX generally refers to vmcs12 as KVM's copy
> of L1's VMCS, whereas SVM generally refers to vmcb12 as the "direct" mapping of
> L1's VMCB.  I'd prefer to go with VMX's terminology, i.e. rework nSVM to refer to
> the copy as vmcb12, but I'm more than a bit biased since I've spent so much time
> in nVMX,

I agree, and I think Emanuele's patches are a step in the right 
direction.  Once we ensure that all state in svm->nested is cached 
vmcb12 content, we can get rid of vmcb12 pointers in the functions.

Paolo