From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen: simplify evtchn_do_upcall() call maze
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2023 10:15:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zg2fbksa.ffs@tglx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230824154106.14799-1-jgross@suse.com>
On Thu, Aug 24 2023 at 17:41, Juergen Gross wrote:
> There are several functions involved for performing the functionality
> of evtchn_do_upcall():
>
> - __xen_evtchn_do_upcall() doing the real work
> - xen_hvm_evtchn_do_upcall() just being a wrapper for
> __xen_evtchn_do_upcall(), exposed for external callers
> - xen_evtchn_do_upcall() calling __xen_evtchn_do_upcall(), too, but
> without any user
>
> Simplify this maze by:
>
> - removing the unused xen_evtchn_do_upcall()
> - removing xen_hvm_evtchn_do_upcall() as the only left caller of
> __xen_evtchn_do_upcall(), while renaming __xen_evtchn_do_upcall() to
> xen_evtchn_do_upcall()
>
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-25 8:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-24 15:41 [PATCH] xen: simplify evtchn_do_upcall() call maze Juergen Gross
2023-08-24 21:21 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2023-08-25 8:15 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
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