linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 04/14] KVM: Remove CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_ARCH_TLB_FLUSH

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Message-ID: <a645ce3e-dd24-8c06-5898-76f78828b608@linaro.org>
Date:   Thu, 10 Aug 2023 11:04:14 +0200
From:   Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@...aro.org>
To:     Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@...gle.com>,
        Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@...ux.dev>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...nel.org>,
        Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@...wei.com>,
        Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>,
        Atish Patra <atishp@...shpatra.org>,
        Jing Zhang <jingzhangos@...gle.com>,
        Reiji Watanabe <reijiw@...gle.com>,
        Colton Lewis <coltonlewis@...gle.com>,
        David Matlack <dmatlack@...gle.com>,
        Fuad Tabba <tabba@...gle.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, kvmarm@...ts.linux.dev,
        linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, kvm-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, Shaoqin Huang <shahuang@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 04/14] KVM: Remove CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_ARCH_TLB_FLUSH_ALL

On 9/8/23 01:13, Raghavendra Rao Ananta wrote:
> kvm_arch_flush_remote_tlbs() or CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_ARCH_TLB_FLUSH_ALL
> are two mechanisms to solve the same problem, allowing
> architecture-specific code to provide a non-IPI implementation of
> remote TLB flushing.
> 
> Dropping CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_ARCH_TLB_FLUSH_ALL allows KVM to standardize
> all architectures on kvm_arch_flush_remote_tlbs() instead of
> maintaining two mechanisms.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@...gle.com>
> Reviewed-by: Shaoqin Huang <shahuang@...hat.com>
> ---
>   virt/kvm/Kconfig    | 3 ---
>   virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 2 --
>   2 files changed, 5 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@...aro.org>