linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] kvm: use kvfree() in kvm_arch_free

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Date:   Tue, 28 Sep 2021 18:48:20 +0200
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        x86@...nel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     maz@...nel.org, ehabkost@...hat.com,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@....com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] kvm: use kvfree() in kvm_arch_free_vm()

On 03/09/21 15:08, Juergen Gross wrote:
> By switching from kfree() to kvfree() in kvm_arch_free_vm() Arm64 can
> use the common variant. This can be accomplished by adding another
> macro __KVM_HAVE_ARCH_VM_FREE, which will be used only by x86 for now.
> 
> Further simplification can be achieved by adding __kvm_arch_free_vm()
> doing the common part.
> 
> Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>

Queued this one already, thanks.

Paolo