On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 06:44:09AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 30/01/20 01:10, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > Set kvm_x86_ops with the vendor's ops only after ->hardware_setup()
> > completes to "prevent" using kvm_x86_ops before they are ready, i.e. to
> > generate a null pointer fault instead of silently consuming unconfigured
> > state.
>
> What about even copying kvm_x86_ops by value, so that they can be
> accessed with "kvm_x86_ops.callback()" and save one memory access?
Oooh, I like that idea. And {svm,vmx}_x86_ops could be marked __initdata
to save a few bytes and force all the runtime stuff through kvm_x86_ops.
