Re: [PATCH v4 1/8] x86/mm: Pass flush_tlb_info to flush_tlb_others() etc

[Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>]

On Sun, 2017-05-28 at 10:00 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Rather than passing all the contents of flush_tlb_info to
> flush_tlb_others(), pass a pointer to the structure directly. For
> consistency, this also removes the unnecessary cpu parameter from
> uv_flush_tlb_others() to make its signature match the other
> *flush_tlb_others() functions.
> 
> This serves two purposes:
> 
> A - It will dramatically simplify future patches that change struct
> A A A flush_tlb_info, which I'm planning to do.
> 
> A - struct flush_tlb_info is an adequate description of what to do
> A A A for a local flush, too, so by reusing it we can remove duplicated
> A A A code between local and remove flushes in a future patch.
> 
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
> Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
> 

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

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