Re: [PATCH 2/8] KVM: nSVM: rename nested 'vmcb' to vmcb_gpa in few places

From: Maxim Levitsky
Date: Thu Aug 20 2020 - 06:24:28 EST


On Thu, 2020-08-20 at 12:19 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 20/08/20 12:00, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > > Please use vmcb12_gpa, and svm->nested.vmcb12 for the VMCB in patch 6.
> > >
> > > (You probably also what to have local variables named vmcb12 in patch 6
> > > to avoid too-long lines).
> > The limit was raised to 100 chars recently, thats why I allowed some lines to
> > go over 80 characters to avoid adding too much noise.
> >
>
> True, but having svm->nested.vmcb12->control repeated all over isn't
> pretty. :)
I fully agree that adding local variable is a good idea anyway.

I was just noting that svm->nested.vmcb is already about the nested
(e.g vmcb12) thus I was thinking that naming this field vmcb12 would be
redundant and not accepted this way.

Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky

>
> Since you're going to touch all lines anyway, adding the local variable
> is a good idea.
>
> Paolo
>