[PATCH v3 08/41] KVM: arm/arm64: Introduce vcpu_el1_is_32bit

Julien Grall julien.grall at arm.com
Fri Feb 9 04:31:25 PST 2018


Hi Christoffer,

On 01/12/2018 12:07 PM, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> We have numerous checks around that checks if the HCR_EL2 has the RW bit
> set to figure out if we're running an AArch64 or AArch32 VM.  In some
> cases, directly checking the RW bit (given its unintuitive name), is a
> bit confusing, and that's not going to improve as we move logic around
> for the following patches that optimize KVM on AArch64 hosts with VHE.
> 
> Therefore, introduce a helper, vcpu_el1_is_32bit, and replace existing
> direct checks of HCR_EL2.RW with the helper.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>

Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall at arm.com>

Cheers,

-- 
Julien Grall



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