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KVM: arm64: Document why pause cannot be turned into a flag
It would be tempting to turn the 'pause' state into a flag. However, this cannot easily be done as it is updated out of context, while all the flags expect to only be updated from the vcpu thread. Turning it into a flag would require to make all flag updates atomic, which isn't necessary desireable. Document this, and take this opportunity to move the field next to the flag sets, filling a hole in the vcpu structure. Reviewed-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com> Reviewed-by: Reiji Watanabe <reijiw@google.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
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@ -341,6 +341,15 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch {
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/* State flags for kernel bookkeeping, unused by the hypervisor code */
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u8 sflags;
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/*
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* Don't run the guest (internal implementation need).
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*
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* Contrary to the flags above, this is set/cleared outside of
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* a vcpu context, and thus cannot be mixed with the flags
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* themselves (or the flag accesses need to be made atomic).
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*/
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bool pause;
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/*
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* We maintain more than a single set of debug registers to support
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* debugging the guest from the host and to maintain separate host and
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@ -394,9 +403,6 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch {
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/* vcpu power state */
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struct kvm_mp_state mp_state;
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/* Don't run the guest (internal implementation need) */
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bool pause;
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/* Cache some mmu pages needed inside spinlock regions */
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struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache mmu_page_cache;
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