[PATCH v9 12/30] KVM: arm64: Rename sve_state_reg_region
Fuad Tabba
tabba at google.com
Fri Jan 9 07:55:44 PST 2026
On Tue, 23 Dec 2025 at 01:22, Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> As for SVE we will need to pull parts of dynamically sized registers out of
> a block of memory for SME so we will use a similar code pattern for this.
> Rename the current struct sve_state_reg_region in preparation for this.
>
> No functional change.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c | 12 ++++++------
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c
> index d15aa2da1891..8c3405b5d7b1 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c
> @@ -404,9 +404,9 @@ static int set_sve_vls(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, const struct kvm_one_reg *reg)
> */
> #define vcpu_sve_slices(vcpu) 1
>
> -/* Bounds of a single SVE register slice within vcpu->arch.sve_state */
> -struct sve_state_reg_region {
> - unsigned int koffset; /* offset into sve_state in kernel memory */
> +/* Bounds of a single register slice within vcpu->arch.s[mv]e_state */
nit: I'm not sure that the space saving of s[mv]e_state is worth the
added difficulty or reading compared with writing sve_state/sme_state
That said:
Reviewed-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba at google.com>
Cheers,
/fuad
> +struct vec_state_reg_region {
> + unsigned int koffset; /* offset into s[mv]e_state in kernel memory */
> unsigned int klen; /* length in kernel memory */
> unsigned int upad; /* extra trailing padding in user memory */
> };
> @@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ struct sve_state_reg_region {
> * Validate SVE register ID and get sanitised bounds for user/kernel SVE
> * register copy
> */
> -static int sve_reg_to_region(struct sve_state_reg_region *region,
> +static int sve_reg_to_region(struct vec_state_reg_region *region,
> struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> const struct kvm_one_reg *reg)
> {
> @@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ static int sve_reg_to_region(struct sve_state_reg_region *region,
> static int get_sve_reg(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, const struct kvm_one_reg *reg)
> {
> int ret;
> - struct sve_state_reg_region region;
> + struct vec_state_reg_region region;
> char __user *uptr = (char __user *)reg->addr;
>
> /* Handle the KVM_REG_ARM64_SVE_VLS pseudo-reg as a special case: */
> @@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ static int get_sve_reg(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, const struct kvm_one_reg *reg)
> static int set_sve_reg(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, const struct kvm_one_reg *reg)
> {
> int ret;
> - struct sve_state_reg_region region;
> + struct vec_state_reg_region region;
> const char __user *uptr = (const char __user *)reg->addr;
>
> /* Handle the KVM_REG_ARM64_SVE_VLS pseudo-reg as a special case: */
>
> --
> 2.47.3
>
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