From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Borntraeger Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Reorganize request bits Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 15:23:00 +0100 Message-ID: <568E74C4.5000407@de.ibm.com> References: <1452176228-8484-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Takuya Yoshikawa , Paul Mackerras To: Paolo Bonzini , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from e06smtp17.uk.ibm.com ([195.75.94.113]:52649 "EHLO e06smtp17.uk.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751153AbcAGOXF (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jan 2016 09:23:05 -0500 Received: from localhost by e06smtp17.uk.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Thu, 7 Jan 2016 14:23:03 -0000 In-Reply-To: <1452176228-8484-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 01/07/2016 03:17 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > There is no need for request bits to differ across architectures. Only > a handful of them are architecture-independent, the others can all share > bits 8-31 with overlap. > > Leaving room for more architecture-independent bits means that actually > no bits are freed, but the cleanup is useful anyway IMO. > > Paolo Bonzini (4): > KVM: Remove unused KVM_REQ_KICK to save a bit in > KVM: document which architecture uses each request bit > KVM: renumber architecture-dependent requests > KVM: move architecture-dependent requests to arch/ > > arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 4 ++++ > arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 4 ++++ > arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 10 ++++++++++ > include/linux/kvm_host.h | 39 +++++-------------------------------- > virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 10 ---------- > 6 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-) > For the idea: Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger but no deep review so far.