Re: [PATCH] KVM: update depracated jump label API

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Tue Jan 26 2021 - 20:51:40 EST


On Tue, Jan 26, 2021, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 11/01/21 18:15, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> > kvm_no_apic_vcpu is different, we actually need to increase it with
> > every vCPU which doesn't have LAPIC but maybe we can at least switch to
> > static_branch_inc()/static_branch_dec(). It is still weird we initialize
> > it to 'false'
>
> "kvm_no_apic_vcpu" is badly named. It reads as "true if no vCPU has APIC"
> but it means "true if some vCPU has no APIC". The latter is obviously false
> in the beginning, because there is no vCPUs at all.
>
> Perhaps a better name would be "kvm_has_noapic_vcpu" (for once,
> smashingwordstogether is more readable than the alternative).

+1