From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
To: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenz@amazon.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: core-api: entry: Replace deprecated KVM entry/exit functions
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 10:54:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aICxZxJ4P9YjJJS2@J2N7QTR9R3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250723075134.105132-1-ajd@linux.ibm.com>
On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 05:51:34PM +1000, Andrew Donnellan wrote:
> The x86-specific functions kvm_guest_{enter,exit}_irqoff() were removed
> and replaced by the generic guest_state_{enter,exit}_irqoff() in commit
> ef9989afda73 ("kvm: add guest_state_{enter,exit}_irqoff()") and commit
> b2d2af7e5df3 ("kvm/x86: rework guest entry logic").
>
> Update the references in the entry/exit handling documentation.
Sorry for missing this when I updated the code; thanks for cleaning this
up!
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenz@amazon.com>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Mark.
> ---
> Documentation/core-api/entry.rst | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/entry.rst b/Documentation/core-api/entry.rst
> index a15f9b1767a2..286a5ecf7cae 100644
> --- a/Documentation/core-api/entry.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/core-api/entry.rst
> @@ -115,8 +115,8 @@ Entering or exiting guest mode is very similar to syscalls. From the host
> kernel point of view the CPU goes off into user space when entering the
> guest and returns to the kernel on exit.
>
> -kvm_guest_enter_irqoff() is a KVM-specific variant of exit_to_user_mode()
> -and kvm_guest_exit_irqoff() is the KVM variant of enter_from_user_mode().
> +guest_state_enter_irqoff() is a KVM-specific variant of exit_to_user_mode()
> +and guest_state_exit_irqoff() is the KVM variant of enter_from_user_mode().
> The state operations have the same ordering.
>
> Task work handling is done separately for guest at the boundary of the
> --
> 2.50.1
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-07-23 9:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-23 7:51 [PATCH] Documentation: core-api: entry: Replace deprecated KVM entry/exit functions Andrew Donnellan
2025-07-23 9:54 ` Mark Rutland [this message]
2025-07-23 17:08 ` Thomas Gleixner
2025-07-24 14:33 ` Jonathan Corbet
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