[PATCH 1/9] arm64: KVM: rename pm_fake handler to trap_wi_raz

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Wed May 7 08:42:06 PDT 2014


On 07/05/14 16:34, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 7 May 2014 16:20, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com> wrote:
>> pm_fake doesn't quite describe what the handler does (ignoring writes
>> and returning 0 for reads).
>>
>> As we're about to use it (a lot) in a different context, rename it
>> with a (admitedly cryptic) name that make sense for all users.
> 
>> -/*
>> - * We could trap ID_DFR0 and tell the guest we don't support performance
>> - * monitoring.  Unfortunately the patch to make the kernel check ID_DFR0 was
>> - * NAKed, so it will read the PMCR anyway.
>> - *
>> - * Therefore we tell the guest we have 0 counters.  Unfortunately, we
>> - * must always support PMCCNTR (the cycle counter): we just RAZ/WI for
>> - * all PM registers, which doesn't crash the guest kernel at least.
>> - */
>> -static bool pm_fake(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>> -                   const struct sys_reg_params *p,
>> -                   const struct sys_reg_desc *r)
>> +static bool trap_wi_raz(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>> +                       const struct sys_reg_params *p,
>> +                       const struct sys_reg_desc *r)
> 
> The standard term for this is "RAZ/WI", not "WI/RAZ", so
> why not "trap_raz_wi" ?

Good point. I'll update it.

Thanks,

	M.
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