Re: [PATCH v2] x86/paravirt: merge activate_mm and dup_mmap callbacks

[Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>]

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On 07.02.23 22:09, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
> On 2/6/23 11:59 PM, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> The two paravirt callbacks .mmu.activate_mm and .mmu.dup_mmap are
>> sharing the same implementations in all cases: for Xen PV guests they
>> are pinning the PGD of the new mm_struct, and for all other cases
>> they are a NOP.
>>
>> In the end both callbacks are meant to register an address space with
>> the underlying hypervisor, so there needs to be only a single callback
>> for that purpose.
>>
>> So merge them to a common callback .mmu.enter_mmap (in contrast to the
>> corresponding already existing .mmu.exit_mmap).
>>
>> As the first parameter of the old callbacks isn't used, drop it from
>> the replacement one.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
> 
> 
> Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) <srivatsa@csail.mit.edu>

x86 maintainers, I think this patch should be carried via the tip tree.


Juergen


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