[PATCH v3 4/6] KVM: PPC: Book3s HV: Hold LPIDs in an unsigned long

[David Laight]

From: Jordan Niethe
> Sent: 07 August 2023 02:46
> 
> The LPID register is 32 bits long. The host keeps the lpids for each
> guest in an unsigned word struct kvm_arch. Currently, LPIDs are already
> limited by mmu_lpid_bits and KVM_MAX_NESTED_GUESTS_SHIFT.
> 
> The nestedv2 API returns a 64 bit "Guest ID" to be used be the L1 host
> for each L2 guest. This value is used as an lpid, e.g. it is the
> parameter used by H_RPT_INVALIDATE. To minimize needless special casing
> it makes sense to keep this "Guest ID" in struct kvm_arch::lpid.
> 
> This means that struct kvm_arch::lpid is too small so prepare for this
> and make it an unsigned long. This is not a problem for the KVM-HV and
> nestedv1 cases as their lpid values are already limited to valid ranges
> so in those contexts the lpid can be used as an unsigned word safely as
> needed.

Shouldn't it be changed to u64?

	David
 

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