linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/13] KVM: Drop kvm_arch_create

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Date:   Thu, 12 Sep 2019 13:31:41 +0200
From:   Janosch Frank <frankja@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>,
        James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...abs.org>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
Cc:     David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@....com>,
        Suzuki K Pouloze <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, kvm-ppc@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/13] KVM: Drop kvm_arch_create_memslot()

On 9/11/19 8:50 PM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Remove kvm_arch_create_memslot() now that all arch implementations are
> effectively nops.  Explicitly free an allocated-but-unused dirty bitmap
> instead of relying on kvm_free_memslot() now that setting a memslot can
> no longer fail after arch code has allocated memory.  In practice
> this was already true, e.g. architectures that allocated memory via
> kvm_arch_create_memslot() never failed kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region()
> and vice versa, but removing kvm_arch_create_memslot() eliminates the
> potential for future code to stealthily change behavior.
> 
> Eliminating the error path's reliance on kvm_free_memslot() paves the
> way for simplify kvm_free_memslot(), i.e. dropping its @dont param.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>

Please either split or adopt the patch title to include the freeing.
I'd go for splitting.



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