From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoffer Dall Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: arm/arm64: Clean up some obsolete code Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 12:14:08 +0200 Message-ID: <20151008101408.GA20936@cbox> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mm01.cs.columbia.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71CA641451 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 2015 06:11:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mm01.cs.columbia.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mm01.cs.columbia.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id uaAx0thk2RL1 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 2015 06:11:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail-lb0-f178.google.com (mail-lb0-f178.google.com [209.85.217.178]) by mm01.cs.columbia.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 35E9941338 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 2015 06:11:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lbos8 with SMTP id s8so40911470lbo.0 for ; Thu, 08 Oct 2015 03:13:54 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: kvmarm-bounces@lists.cs.columbia.edu Sender: kvmarm-bounces@lists.cs.columbia.edu To: Pavel Fedin Cc: Marc Zyngier , Andre Przywara , kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, kvm@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu Hi Pavel, On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 05:44:27PM +0300, Pavel Fedin wrote: > Current KVM code has lots of old redundancies, which can be cleaned up. > This patchset is actually a better alternative to > http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg430726.html, which allows to > keep piggy-backed LRs. The idea is based on the fact that our code also > maintains LR state in elrsr, and this information is enough to track LR > usage. > > This patchset is made against linux-next of 02.10.2015. Thanks to Andre > for pointing out some 4.3 specifics. > I'm not opposed to these changes, they clean up the data structures which is definitely a good thing. I am a bit worries about how/if this is going to conflict with the ITS series and other patches in flight touchignt he vgic. Marc/Andre, any thoughts on this? -Christoffer