From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Wright Subject: [PATCH v2 0/2] KVM: remove host and guest pv mmu support Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 17:25:55 -0700 Message-ID: <20111102002555.GA29567@sequoia.sous-sol.org> References: <20111021004423.GM12280@sequoia.sous-sol.org> <20111027124426.GA30571@amt.cnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , Avi Kivity , Chris Wright To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from sous-sol.org ([216.99.217.87]:59155 "EHLO sequoia.sous-sol.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754743Ab1KBAZ7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Nov 2011 20:25:59 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20111027124426.GA30571@amt.cnet> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This feature hasn't been in use for some years now. The host side bits are deprecated for almost a year. The guest side would only get used on old hosts, and it's slower than shadow or hw assisted paging. Time to remove it. Chris Wright (2): KVM Guest: remove KVM guest pv mmu support KVM: remove KVM host pv mmu support Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 9 -- arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 13 -- arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c | 181 ---------------------------- arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 135 --------------------- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 12 -- 5 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 350 deletions(-) Changes since RFC: - v2 rebase to b796a09c thanks, -chris