[PATCH v2 12/24] KVM: arm64: Introduce shadow VM state at EL2

Marc Zyngier maz at kernel.org
Tue Jul 19 02:41:59 PDT 2022


On Mon, 18 Jul 2022 19:40:05 +0100,
Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort at google.com> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> In the end, we don't seem to use much from the struct kvm_cpu. Is it for
> convinience that a smaller struct kvm_shadow_cpu hasn't been created, or we do
> anticipate a later wider usage?

The alternative would be to repaint the whole of the core KVM/arm64
code to be able to take the new structure in parallel with the
standard one. There is very little to gain from such a move.

	M.

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