Re: [PATCH] KVM: svm/avic: Drop "struct kvm_x86_ops" for avic_hardware_setup()
From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Wed Nov 09 2022 - 12:32:52 EST
+Maxim
On Wed, Nov 09, 2022, Like Xu wrote:
> From: Like Xu <likexu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Even in commit 4bdec12aa8d6 ("KVM: SVM: Detect X2APIC virtualization
> (x2AVIC) support"), where avic_hardware_setup() was first introduced,
> its only pass-in parameter "struct kvm_x86_ops *ops" is not used at all.
I assume the intent was to fill the AVIC ops so that they don't need to be exposed
outside of avic.c. I like the idea in theory, but unlike vmx_nested_ops they
wouldn't be fully contained, which IMO would make the code as a whole more difficult
to follow.
Maxim, any objection?
> Clean it up a bit to avoid compiler ranting from LLVM toolchain.
>
> Signed-off-by: Like Xu <likexu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>