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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] KVM: PPC: epapr: Factor out the epapr init
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On 02/12/2012 11:47 PM, Liu Yu-B13201 wrote:
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Wood Scott-B07421
>> Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 2:40 AM
>> To: Liu Yu-B13201
>> Cc: agraf@suse.de; kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org; kvm@vger.kernel.org;
>> linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org; Wood Scott-B07421
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] KVM: PPC: epapr: Factor out the epapr init
>>
>> Why are you still doing the patching inside kvm.c?
>>
> 
> Do you mean we should move kvm_hypercall_start() into epapr bit?

Yes.  This is an ePAPR mechanism; KVM just happens to be a user of it.

We should also update arch/powerpc/include/asm/epapr_hcalls.h to use
this mechanism.

-Scott