linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 13/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: drop the kvm_pmu

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Date:   Mon, 23 Sep 2019 12:21:43 +0200
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
Cc:     Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@...hat.com>,
        Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
        Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: drop the kvm_pmu_ops
 structure

On 20/09/19 23:25, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Cleanup after this was finally left fully unused.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h |  3 ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/pmu.h              | 19 -------------------
>  arch/x86/kvm/pmu_amd.c          | 15 ---------------
>  arch/x86/kvm/svm.c              |  1 -
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c    | 15 ---------------
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c          |  2 --
>  6 files changed, 55 deletions(-)

Is there any reason not to do the same for kvm_x86_ops?

(As an aside, patch 2 is not copying over the comments in the struct
kvm_x86_ops declarations.  Granted there aren't many, but we should not
lose the few that exist).

Paolo