linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] xen/grant-table: remove gnttab

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Message-ID: <63365484-7035-f2bd-5317-2e95d65993f7@oracle.com>
Date:   Mon, 14 Mar 2022 19:37:03 -0400
From:   Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
To:     Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] xen/grant-table: remove gnttab_*transfer*() functions


On 3/11/22 5:34 AM, Juergen Gross wrote:
> All grant table operations related to the "transfer" functionality
> are unused currently. There have been users in the old days of the
> "Xen-o-Linux" kernel, but those didn't make it upstream.
>
> So remove the "transfer" related functions.


Do we need to assert somewhere that transfer flags are not set?


-boris