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To:     Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Cc:     Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
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        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
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Date:   Fri, 25 Aug 2023 10:15:01 +0200
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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>