Re: [PATCH 2/8] KVM: nSVM: rename nested 'vmcb' to vmcb_gpa in few places

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On Thu, 2020-08-20 at 12:56 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 20/08/20 12:23, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > I fully agree that adding local variable is a good idea anyway.
> > 
> > I was just noting that svm->nested.vmcb is already about the nested
> > (e.g vmcb12) thus I was thinking that naming this field vmcb12 would be
> > redundant and not accepted this way.
> 
> We want to have both svm->nested.vmcb12 and svm->nested.vmcb02 in there,
> and hsave is also a VMCB of sort (somewhat like a vmcb01 that is only
> used while running a nested guest).  So it is clearer to write _which_
> vmcb it is, and it also helps by making terminology consistent between
> VMX and SVM.
This makes sense.
Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky

> 
> Paolo
> 





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