[PATCH v3 5/6] KVM: arm64: rename functions for invariant sys regs

Sebastian Ott sebott at redhat.com
Wed May 29 08:29:19 PDT 2024


Hej Eric,

On Wed, 29 May 2024, Eric Auger wrote:
> On 5/14/24 09:22, Sebastian Ott wrote:
>> Invariant system id registers are populated with host values
>> at initialization time using their .reset function cb.
> get_##reg call read_sysreg(). I don't really understand the above
> sentence. Please could you elaborate?
>

struct sys_reg_desc has 2 function pointers (among others):
.reset and .get_user . The functions implementing these are
usually named accordingly. For invariant registers only
.reset is used but set to functions that are called get_*
(which is usually used to implement .get_user).

E.g.: invariant_sys_regs[0].reset == get_midr_el1

When trying to figure out this code I was confused by this, hence
this patch..

Sebastian




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