linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/6] Create common VMWare host port communication macros v3

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Message-Id: <1453239965-1466-1-git-send-email-syeh@vmware.com>
Date:	Tue, 19 Jan 2016 13:45:59 -0800
From:	"Sinclair Yeh" <syeh@...are.com>
To:	x86@...nel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	Sinclair Yeh <syeh@...are.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/6] Create common VMWare host port communication macros v3

The first patch in this series creates three macros for communicating
with the host from a Linux guest.

Most of the subsequent patches convert the existing assembly code
to using these new macros.

Reviewed-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@...are.com> (entire series)
Reviewed-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@...are.com> (all except 4/6)
Acked-by: Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@...are.com> (6/6)

Signed-off-by: Sinclair Yeh <syeh@...are.com>

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v2
Updated the patchset with comments from reviews

v3
vmw_balloon.c's usage of the macro has changed since this series
was originally created in December 2015.  The updated macros
also addressed some of the variable initialization requirement
comments from earlier reviews.