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Date:   Wed, 26 May 2021 21:25:04 +0000
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To:     Ben Gardon <bgardon@...gle.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>, Peter Shier <pshier@...gle.com>,
        Peter Feiner <pfeiner@...gle.com>,
        Junaid Shahid <junaids@...gle.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Yulei Zhang <yulei.kernel@...il.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@...il.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong.eric@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/13] KVM: x86/mmu: Re-add const qualifier in
 kvm_tdp_mmu_zap_collapsible_sptes

On Thu, Apr 01, 2021, Ben Gardon wrote:
> kvm_tdp_mmu_zap_collapsible_sptes unnecessarily removes the const
> qualifier from its memlsot argument, leading to a compiler warning. Add
> the const annotation and pass it to subsequent functions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@...gle.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c          | 10 +++++-----
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu_internal.h |  5 +++--
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c      |  5 +++--
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.h      |  3 ++-
>  include/linux/kvm_host.h        |  2 +-
>  5 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> index efb41f31e80a..617809529987 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> @@ -715,8 +715,7 @@ static void kvm_mmu_page_set_gfn(struct kvm_mmu_page *sp, int index, gfn_t gfn)
>   * handling slots that are not large page aligned.
>   */
>  static struct kvm_lpage_info *lpage_info_slot(gfn_t gfn,
> -					      struct kvm_memory_slot *slot,
> -					      int level)
> +		const struct kvm_memory_slot *slot, int level)

I'd prefer to let this poke out (it's only 2 chars) instead of having an unaligned
param list.  And if we want to make it pretty, we could always do:

static struct kvm_lpage_info *lpage_info_slot(const struct kvm_memory_slot *slot,
					      gfn_t gfn, int level)