Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Nov 2021 08:28:33 +0100 | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH v2 22/69] KVM: x86: Add vm_type to differentiate legacy VMs from protected VMs | From | Paolo Bonzini <> |
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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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