[PATCH v4 35/40] KVM: arm/arm64: Get rid of vgic_elrsr

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Thu Feb 22 01:45:07 PST 2018


On Thu, 15 Feb 2018 21:03:27 +0000,
Christoffer Dall wrote:
> 
> There is really no need to store the vgic_elrsr on the VGIC data
> structures as the only need we have for the elrsr is to figure out if an
> LR is inactive when we save the VGIC state upon returning from the
> guest.  We can might as well store this in a temporary local variable.
> 
> This also gets rid of the endianness conversion in the VGIC save
> function, which is completely unnecessary and would actually result in
> incorrect functionality on big-endian systems, because we are only using
> typed values here and not converting pointers and reading different
> types here.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>

Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>

	M.

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