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From: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org,
	kvm-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>,
	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-12 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ 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
2013-10-02 21:22 ` [PATCH 1/6] KVM: Move gfn_to_index to x86 specific code Christoffer Dall
2013-10-02 21:22 ` [PATCH 2/6] KVM: ARM: Get rid of KVM_HPAGE defines Christoffer Dall
2013-10-02 21:22 ` [PATCH 3/6] KVM: arm64: " Christoffer Dall
2013-10-02 21:22 ` [PATCH 4/6] KVM: mips: " Christoffer Dall
2013-10-02 21:22 ` [PATCH 5/6] KVM: ia64: " Christoffer Dall
2013-10-02 21:22 ` [PATCH 6/6] KVM: PPC: " Christoffer Dall
2013-10-12 17:36 ` Christoffer Dall [this message]
2013-10-13  9:31   ` [PATCH 0/6] Get rid of mandatory huge page defines 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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