Re: [PATCH 2/3] KVM: s390: Always allocate esca_block

[Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>]

On Thu, 15 May 2025 15:07:18 +0200
"Christoph Schlameuss" <schlameuss@linux.ibm.com> wrote:

> On Thu May 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM CEST, Claudio Imbrenda wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 May 2025 18:34:50 +0200
> > Christoph Schlameuss <schlameuss@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> >  
> >> Instead of allocating a BSCA and upgrading it for PV or when adding the
> >> 65th cpu we can always use the ESCA.
> >> 
> >> The only downside of the change is that we will always allocate 4 pages
> >> for a 248 cpu ESCA instead of a single page for the BSCA per VM.
> >> In return we can delete a bunch of checks and special handling depending
> >> on the SCA type as well as the whole BSCA to ESCA conversion.
> >> 
> >> As a fallback we can still run without SCA entries when the SIGP
> >> interpretation facility is not available.  
> >
> > s/is/or BSCA are/
> >  
> 
> With this merged we do no longer care for the BSCA. So I will change this to
> s/is/or ESCA are/

that was a typo, I meant ESCA, of course :)

> 
> I will also apply the other changes for the next version. But I will wait for
> more feedback before sending that. And I will run checkpatch with the strict
> option, which I clearly did not do.
> 
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