linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] KVM: add converters between pfn_t and kvm_pfn

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Message-ID: <20171108024713.6zlrrbj4pszmrbg5@hz-desktop>
Date:   Wed, 8 Nov 2017 10:47:13 +0800
From:   Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@...el.com>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc:     KVM list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, rkrcmar@...hat.com,
        Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong.eric@...il.com>,
        "Cuevas Escareno, Ivan D" <ivan.d.cuevas.escareno@...el.com>,
        "Kumar, Karthik" <karthik.kumar@...el.com>,
        Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
        Olif Chapman <olif.chapman@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] KVM: add converters between pfn_t and kvm_pfn_t

On 11/03/17 06:21 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 10:53 PM, Haozhong Zhang
> <haozhong.zhang@...el.com> wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@...el.com>
> 
> Can you also add some text to the changelog saying why we need these converters?

I'm going to drop these converters in the next version. The function
introduced in patch 1 does not need flags in pfn_t, so unsigned long
is enough. I'll change pfn_t to unsigned long in patch 1 as well.

Haozhong