Commit 112f3bab authored by Will Deacon's avatar Will Deacon Committed by Marc Zyngier

KVM: arm64: Extend comment in has_vhe()

has_vhe() expands to a compile-time constant when evaluated from the VHE
or nVHE code, alternatively checking a static key when called from
elsewhere in the kernel. On face value, this looks like a case of
premature optimization, but in fact this allows symbol references on
VHE-specific code paths to be dropped from the nVHE object.

Expand the comment in has_vhe() to make this clearer, hopefully
discouraging anybody from simplifying the code.

Cc: David Brazdil <dbrazdil@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220609121223.2551-5-will@kernel.org
parent cde5042a
......@@ -113,6 +113,9 @@ static __always_inline bool has_vhe(void)
/*
* Code only run in VHE/NVHE hyp context can assume VHE is present or
* absent. Otherwise fall back to caps.
* This allows the compiler to discard VHE-specific code from the
* nVHE object, reducing the number of external symbol references
* needed to link.
*/
if (is_vhe_hyp_code())
return true;
......
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