Re: [PATCH 0/6] Get rid of mandatory huge page defines
Christoffer Dall <[email protected]> Sat, 12 Oct 2013 17:36:36 +0000
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.kvm-ia64,org.kernel.vger.kvm,org.kernel.vger.kvm-ppc |
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| Message-ID | <20131012173636.GL5108@cbox> |
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 02:22:27PM -0700, Christoffer Dall wrote: > The current KVM code relies on a number of definitions to exist for each > architecture: > KVM_HPAGE_GFN_SHIFT > KVM_NR_HPAGE_SIZES > KVM_PAGES_PER_HPAGE > > However, these defines are only used in the gfn_to_index function, which > is only used in the x86 code. This series moves the gfn_to_index > function from the generic KVM code into the x86 world and gets rid of > the definitions from archiectures that don't use them. s390 actually > uses these values in other code, so we leave that part untouched. > > Patches based on kvm/next and available here: > git://git.linaro.org/people/cdall/linux-kvm-arm.git kvm-pagesize-cleanup > > Christoffer Dall (6): > KVM: Move gfn_to_index to x86 specific code > KVM: ARM: Get rid of KVM_HPAGE defines > KVM: arm64: Get rid of KVM_HPAGE defines > KVM: mips: Get rid of KVM_HPAGE defines > KVM: ia64: Get rid of KVM_HPAGE defines > KVM: PPC: Get rid of KVM_HPAGE defines > Any comments on this one? I'd very much like to merge huge page support for KVM/ARM during the next merge window and it depends on this series. Thanks! -Christoffer