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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH v2 22/69] KVM: x86: Add vm_type to differentiate legacy VMs from protected VMs
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On 11/11/21 04:28, Xiaoyao Li wrote:
>>
>> Heh, because kvm_dev_ioctl_create_vm() takes an "unsigned long" for
>> the type and
>> it felt wrong to store it as something else.  Storing it as a smaller
>> field should
>> be fine, I highly doubt we'll get to 256 types anytime soon :-)
>
> It's the bit position. We can get only 8 types with u8 actually.

Every architecture defines the meaning, and for x86 we can say it's not
a bit position.

Paolo

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