linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/13] KVM: PPC: Move memslot memory allocation into prepare_memory

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Date:   Thu, 19 Sep 2019 10:23:28 +1000
From:   Paul Mackerras <paulus@...abs.org>
To:     Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
Cc:     James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        Janosch Frank <frankja@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        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 02/13] KVM: PPC: Move memslot memory allocation into
 prepare_memory_region()

On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 11:50:27AM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Allocate the rmap array during kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region() to pave
> the way for removing kvm_arch_create_memslot() altogether.  Moving PPC's
> memory allocation only changes the order of kernel memory allocations
> between PPC and common KVM code.
> 
> No functional change intended.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>

Seems OK.

Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...abs.org>