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From: "Nicholas Piggin" <npiggin@gmail.com>
To: "Thomas Huth" <thuth@redhat.com>, <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Sean Christopherson" <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>,
	Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
	Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>,
	kvmarm@lists.linux.dev, James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
	kvm-riscv@lists.infradead.org, Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>,
	Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] KVM: Move KVM_GET_NR_MMU_PAGES into the deprecation section
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2023 20:16:45 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CQ8UM1FTPEUZ.3F2RONR3AJ5YP@bobo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230203094230.266952-4-thuth@redhat.com>

On Fri Feb 3, 2023 at 7:42 PM AEST, Thomas Huth wrote:
> The KVM_GET_NR_MMU_PAGES ioctl is quite questionable on 64-bit hosts
> since it fails to return the full 64 bits of the value that can be
> set with the corresponding KVM_SET_NR_MMU_PAGES call. This ioctl
> likely has also never really been used by userspace applications
> (at least not by QEMU and kvmtool which I checked), so it's better
> to move it to the deprecation section in kvm.h to make it clear for
> developers that this also should not be used in new code in the
> future anymore.

Did this get included in the series inadvertently?

Thanks,
Nick

>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> ---
>  include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
> index 55155e262646..f55965a4cec7 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
> @@ -83,6 +83,8 @@ struct kvm_debug_guest {
>  
>  #define __KVM_DEPRECATED_VCPU_W_0x87 _IOW(KVMIO, 0x87, struct kvm_debug_guest)
>  
> +#define KVM_GET_NR_MMU_PAGES _IO(KVMIO, 0x45)
> +
>  /* *** End of deprecated interfaces *** */
>  
>  
> @@ -1442,7 +1444,6 @@ struct kvm_vfio_spapr_tce {
>  #define KVM_CREATE_VCPU           _IO(KVMIO,   0x41)
>  #define KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG         _IOW(KVMIO,  0x42, struct kvm_dirty_log)
>  #define KVM_SET_NR_MMU_PAGES      _IO(KVMIO,   0x44)
> -#define KVM_GET_NR_MMU_PAGES      _IO(KVMIO,   0x45)
>  #define KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION _IOW(KVMIO, 0x46, \
>  					struct kvm_userspace_memory_region)
>  #define KVM_SET_TSS_ADDR          _IO(KVMIO,   0x47)
> -- 
> 2.31.1


  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-03 10:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-03  9:42 [PATCH 0/7] KVM: Standardize on "int" return types instead of "long" Thomas Huth
2023-02-03  9:42 ` [PATCH 1/7] KVM: Standardize on "int" return types instead of "long" in kvm_main.c Thomas Huth
2023-02-03  9:42 ` [PATCH 2/7] KVM: x86: Improve return type handling in kvm_vm_ioctl_get_nr_mmu_pages() Thomas Huth
2023-02-03 17:48   ` Sean Christopherson
2023-02-07  9:26     ` Thomas Huth
2023-02-07 16:25       ` Sean Christopherson
2023-02-03  9:42 ` [PATCH 3/7] KVM: Move KVM_GET_NR_MMU_PAGES into the deprecation section Thomas Huth
2023-02-03 10:16   ` Nicholas Piggin [this message]
2023-02-03 10:54     ` Thomas Huth
2023-02-03  9:42 ` [PATCH 4/7] KVM: PPC: Standardize on "int" return types in the powerpc KVM code Thomas Huth
2023-02-03 10:21   ` Nicholas Piggin
2023-02-03  9:42 ` [PATCH 5/7] KVM: s390: Use "int" as return type for kvm_s390_get/set_skeys() Thomas Huth
2023-02-07 15:36   ` Claudio Imbrenda
2023-02-03  9:42 ` [PATCH 6/7] KVM: arm64: Change return type of kvm_vm_ioctl_mte_copy_tags() to "int" Thomas Huth
2023-02-07  0:09   ` Gavin Shan
2023-02-07 10:09     ` Thomas Huth
2023-02-07 22:16       ` Gavin Shan
2023-02-08  8:49         ` Cornelia Huck
2023-02-08 11:51           ` Steven Price
2023-02-08 12:16             ` Thomas Huth
2023-02-03  9:42 ` [PATCH 7/7] KVM: Change return type of kvm_arch_vm_ioctl() " Thomas Huth
2023-02-08 17:35   ` Claudio Imbrenda

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