KVM: arm64: Document why pause cannot be turned into a flag
It would be tempting to turn the 'pause' state into a flag. However, this cannot easily be done as it is updated out of context, while all the flags expect to only be updated from the vcpu thread. Turning it into a flag would require to make all flag updates atomic, which isn't necessary desireable. Document this, and take this opportunity to move the field next to the flag sets, filling a hole in the vcpu structure. Reviewed-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com> Reviewed-by: Reiji Watanabe <reijiw@google.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
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