Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.4 02/12] target-i386: Don't set any KVM flag by default if KVM is disabled

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 06:59:28PM -0200, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> This is a cleanup that tries to solve two small issues:
> 
>  - We don't need a separate kvm_pv_eoi_features variable just to keep a
>    constant calculated at compile-time, and this style would require
>    adding a separate variable (that's declared twice because of the
>    CONFIG_KVM ifdef) for each feature that's going to be enabled/disable
>    by machine-type compat code.
>  - The pc-1.3 code is setting the kvm_pv_eoi flag on cpuid_kvm_features
>    even when KVM is disabled at runtime. This small incosistency in
>    the cpuid_kvm_features field isn't a problem today because
>    cpuid_kvm_features is ignored by the TCG code, but it may cause
>    unexpected problems later when refactoring the CPUID handling code.
> 
> This patch eliminates the kvm_pv_eoi_features variable and simply uses
> kvm_enabled() inside the enable_kvm_pv_eoi() compat function, so it
> enables kvm_pv_eoi only if KVM is enabled. I believe this makes the
> behavior of enable_kvm_pv_eoi() clearer and easier to understand.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <address@hidden>