linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] powerpc/watchpoint/kvm: Rename current DAWR macros and variables

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Date:   Wed, 2 Sep 2020 10:39:42 +0530
From:   Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Paul Mackerras <paulus@...abs.org>
Cc:     mpe@...erman.id.au, mikey@...ling.org, npiggin@...il.com,
        pbonzini@...hat.com, christophe.leroy@....fr, jniethe5@...il.com,
        pedromfc@...ibm.com, rogealve@...ibm.com, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm-ppc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] powerpc/watchpoint/kvm: Rename current DAWR macros
 and variables

Hi Paul,

On 9/2/20 7:19 AM, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 03:50:52PM +0530, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
>> Power10 is introducing second DAWR. Use real register names (with
>> suffix 0) from ISA for current macros and variables used by kvm.
> 
> Most of this looks fine, but I think we should not change the existing
> names in arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h (and therefore also
> Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst).

Missed that I'm changing uapi. I'll rename only those macros/variables
which are not uapi.

Thanks,
Ravi