Re: [PATCH 02/16] KVM: x86: Remove separate "bit" defines for page fault error code masks

[Sean Christopherson]

On Thu, Feb 29, 2024, Dongli Zhang wrote:
> I remember I read somewhere suggesting not to change the headers in selftest.

The "suggestion" is to not update the headers that perf tooling copies verbatim
from the kernel, e.g. tools/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h.  The duplicates in tools/
aren't used by KVM selftests, it's purely perf that needs identical copies from
the kernel tree, so I strongly prefer to leave it to the perf folks to deal with
synchronizing the headers as needed.

> Just double-check if there is requirement to edit
> tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/x86_64/processor.h.

This header is a KVM selftests specific header that is independent from the kernel
headers.  It does have _some_ copy+paste, mostly for architecturally defined
bits and bobs, but it's not a straight copy of any kernel header.

That said, yes, I think we should also clean up x86_64/processor.h.  That can be
done in a one-off standalone patch though.