linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] clean up redundant 'kvm

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Message-ID: <3a2bee8b-20b4-5d33-7d12-09c374a5afde@linux.alibaba.com>
Date:   Tue, 23 Jun 2020 18:00:09 +0800
From:   Tianjia Zhang <tianjia.zhang@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, tsbogend@...ha.franken.de,
        paulus@...abs.org, mpe@...erman.id.au, benh@...nel.crashing.org,
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        hpa@...or.com, maz@...nel.org, james.morse@....com,
        julien.thierry.kdev@...il.com, suzuki.poulose@....com,
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        chenhuacai@...il.com
Cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu, linux-mips@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] clean up redundant 'kvm_run' parameters



On 2020/6/23 17:42, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 27/04/20 06:35, Tianjia Zhang wrote:
>> In the current kvm version, 'kvm_run' has been included in the 'kvm_vcpu'
>> structure. For historical reasons, many kvm-related function parameters
>> retain the 'kvm_run' and 'kvm_vcpu' parameters at the same time. This
>> patch does a unified cleanup of these remaining redundant parameters.
>>
>> This series of patches has completely cleaned the architecture of
>> arm64, mips, ppc, and s390 (no such redundant code on x86). Due to
>> the large number of modified codes, a separate patch is made for each
>> platform. On the ppc platform, there is also a redundant structure
>> pointer of 'kvm_run' in 'vcpu_arch', which has also been cleaned
>> separately.
> 
> Tianjia, can you please refresh the patches so that each architecture
> maintainer can pick them up?  Thanks very much for this work!
> 
> Paolo
> 

No problem, this is what I should do.
After I update, do I submit separately for each architecture or submit 
them together in a patchset?

Thanks,
Tianjia