Re: [PATCH 2/3] KVM: s390: Always allocate esca_block

["Christoph Schlameuss" <schlameuss@linux.ibm.com>]

On Thu May 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM CEST, Claudio Imbrenda wrote:
> On Wed, 14 May 2025 18:34:50 +0200
> Christoph Schlameuss <schlameuss@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> Instead of allocating a BSCA and upgrading it for PV or when adding the
>> 65th cpu we can always use the ESCA.
>> 
>> The only downside of the change is that we will always allocate 4 pages
>> for a 248 cpu ESCA instead of a single page for the BSCA per VM.
>> In return we can delete a bunch of checks and special handling depending
>> on the SCA type as well as the whole BSCA to ESCA conversion.
>> 
>> As a fallback we can still run without SCA entries when the SIGP
>> interpretation facility is not available.
>
> s/is/or BSCA are/
>

With this merged we do no longer care for the BSCA. So I will change this to
s/is/or ESCA are/

I will also apply the other changes for the next version. But I will wait for
more feedback before sending that. And I will run checkpatch with the strict
option, which I clearly did not do.

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