linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5.5 06/30] KVM: Use "new" memslot's address space ID instead of dedicated param

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Message-ID: <eab8516c-eaf3-263f-d512-e7ac585ecab8@oracle.com>
Date:   Tue, 9 Nov 2021 01:39:15 +0100
From:   "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <maciej.szmigiero@...cle.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Cc:     James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@....com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        Atish Patra <atish.patra@....com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>,
        Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@...ux.ibm.com>,
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        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu,
        linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
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        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5.5 06/30] KVM: Use "new" memslot's address space ID
 instead of dedicated param

On 04.11.2021 01:25, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Now that the address space ID is stored in every slot, including fake
> slots used for deletion, use the slot's as_id instead of passing in the
> redundant information as a param to kvm_set_memslot().  This will greatly
> simplify future memslot work by avoiding passing a large number of
> variables around purely to honor @as_id.
> 
> Drop a comment in the DELETE path about new->as_id being provided purely
> for debug, as that's now a lie.
> 
> No functional change intended.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>

Reviewed-by: Maciej S. Szmigiero <maciej.szmigiero@...cle.com>