> From: Jan Beulich [mailto:jbeul...@suse.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2017 6:56 PM
> 
> >>> On 31.01.17 at 11:39, <andrew.coop...@citrix.com> wrote:
> > On 31/01/17 10:19, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>>>> On 30.01.17 at 17:54, <andrew.coop...@citrix.com> wrote:
> >>> This results in rather more readable code.  No functional change.
> >>>
> >>> All fields currently specified are included, but commented out as no 
> >>> support
> >>> for their use is present.
> >> I'd rather not see them be commented out: Why should the first user
> >> of them have to touch the structure declaration another time?
> >
> > I purposefully don't want someone to think they can use .eff_user_exec
> > before doing the work to enable the feature (which amongst other things
> > will involve shuffling the position of bits in an ept_entry_t as the
> > hardware user exec bit is currently where Xen's .recalc bit currently
> > lives).
> 
> For this bit I understand the reasoning. I don't think the same applies
> to bits 9..12 though.
> 

I'm with Jan on this front. Could you resend the patch with comment
only applying to above bit?

Thanks
Kevin

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