From: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
To: kvm-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Get rid of mandatory huge page defines
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 17:36:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131012173636.GL5108@cbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1380748953-7864-1-git-send-email-christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 02:22:27PM -0700, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> The current KVM code relies on a number of definitions to exist for each
> architecture:
> KVM_HPAGE_GFN_SHIFT
> KVM_NR_HPAGE_SIZES
> KVM_PAGES_PER_HPAGE
>
> However, these defines are only used in the gfn_to_index function, which
> is only used in the x86 code. This series moves the gfn_to_index
> function from the generic KVM code into the x86 world and gets rid of
> the definitions from archiectures that don't use them. s390 actually
> uses these values in other code, so we leave that part untouched.
>
> Patches based on kvm/next and available here:
> git://git.linaro.org/people/cdall/linux-kvm-arm.git kvm-pagesize-cleanup
>
> Christoffer Dall (6):
> KVM: Move gfn_to_index to x86 specific code
> KVM: ARM: Get rid of KVM_HPAGE defines
> KVM: arm64: Get rid of KVM_HPAGE defines
> KVM: mips: Get rid of KVM_HPAGE defines
> KVM: ia64: Get rid of KVM_HPAGE defines
> KVM: PPC: Get rid of KVM_HPAGE defines
>
Any comments on this one? I'd very much like to merge huge page support
for KVM/ARM during the next merge window and it depends on this
series.
Thanks!
-Christoffer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-12 17:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-02 21:22 [PATCH 0/6] Get rid of mandatory huge page defines Christoffer Dall
2013-10-12 17:36 ` Christoffer Dall [this message]
2013-10-13 9:31 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-10-13 17:41 ` Christoffer Dall
2013-10-13 17:49 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-10-13 19:29 ` Christoffer Dall
2013-10-14 7:20 ` Gleb Natapov
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