Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] ARM: KVM: introduce {save, restore}_host_regs macros

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On 01/10/12 19:47, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> In order to be able to change the layout of struct kvm_cpu_regs,
>> introduce a separate set of macros that are used to save and
>> restore the host registers using the stack.
>>
> 
> the patch looks ok, but this text doesn't exactly motivate this change
> (or I'm incredibly slow, which means slow people like me should still
> be able to understand this). If you change the struct kvm_cpu_regs
> things would just be differently layed out on the stack, right?

The point is to have different macros to save host and guest contexts.
Once you've separated things, you can start rearranging things easily.

	M.
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