Re: [PATCH v4] KVM: Factor out kvm_vcpu_kick to arch-generic code

[Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 04:44:24PM -0500, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> Any news on the status of this?
> 
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > On 10.02.2012, at 02:40, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> >
> >> The kvm_vcpu_kick function performs roughly the same funcitonality on
> >> most all architectures, so we shouldn't have separate copies.
> >>
> >> PowerPC keeps a pointer to interchanging waitqueues on the vcpu_arch
> >> structure and to accomodate this special need a
> >> __KVM_HAVE_ARCH_VCPU_GET_WQ define and accompanying function
> >> kvm_arch_vcpu_wq have been defined. For all other architectures this
> >> is a generic inline that just returns &vcpu->wq;
> >>
> >> This patch applies to d1c28f7568a74faacec896ee4f84afbffd20e5ab on
> >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm.git.
> >>
> >> Changes since v3:
> >> - Doesn't try to generalize vcpu->mode across all architectures and
> >>   instead calls kvm_arch_vcpu_should_kick, which is properly defined
> >>   on x86 and ia64, but other architectures simply return 1 as to maintain
> >>   status quo.
> >>
> >> Changes since v2:
> >> - Restore arch-specific vcpu->cpu assignment to arch-specific code
> >>
> >> Changes since v1:
> >> - Abstact CPU mode check into arch-specific function
> >> - Remove redundant vcpu->cpu assignment
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <c.dall@virtualopensystems.com>

Applied, thanks.