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

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Thu Aug 20 2020 - 06:56:50 EST


On 20/08/20 12:23, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> 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.

We want to have both svm->nested.vmcb12 and svm->nested.vmcb02 in there,
and hsave is also a VMCB of sort (somewhat like a vmcb01 that is only
used while running a nested guest). So it is clearer to write _which_
vmcb it is, and it also helps by making terminology consistent between
VMX and SVM.

Paolo