Re: [PATCH v2 19/27] KVM: x86/mmu: Move KVM-only page-track declarations to internal header

From: Yan Zhao
Date: Wed Mar 15 2023 - 05:10:19 EST


On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 04:22:50PM -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Bury the declaration of the page-track helpers that are intended only for
> internal KVM use in a "private" header. In addition to guarding against
> unwanted usage of the internal-only helpers, dropping their definitions
> avoids exposing other structures that should be KVM-internal, e.g. for
> memslots. This is a baby step toward making kvm_host.h a KVM-internal
> header in the very distant future.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_page_track.h | 26 ++++-----------------
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 3 ++-
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu/page_track.c | 8 +------
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu/page_track.h | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 1 +
> 5 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/page_track.h
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_page_track.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_page_track.h
> index e5eb98ca4fce..deece45936a5 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_page_track.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_page_track.h

A curious question:
are arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_*.h all expected to be external accessible?

Thanks
Yan