Re: [PATCH 15/24] kvm: mmu: Wrap mmu_lock cond_resched and needbreak

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On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 12:55 PM Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 27/01/21 21:08, Ben Gardon wrote:
> > I'm not entirely sure I understand this suggestion. Are you suggesting
> > we'd have the spinlock and rwlock in a union in struct kvm but then
> > use a static define to choose which one is used by other functions? It
> > seems like if we're using static defines the union doesn't add value.
>
> Of course you're right.  You'd just place the #ifdef in the struct kvm
> definition.

Ah okay, thanks for clarifying.

>
> You can place static inline functions for lock/unlock in
> virt/kvm/mmu_lock.h, in order to avoid a proliferation of #ifdefs.

Would you prefer to make that change in this series or at a later
date? I'm assuming this would replace all the wrapper functions and
mean that x86 is rwlock only.

>
> Paolo
>



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