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Date:   Mon, 30 Oct 2023 23:06:34 +0530
From:   Abhinav Singh <singhabhinav9051571833@...il.com>
To:     "Michael Kelley (LINUX)" <mikelley@...rosoft.com>,
        KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        "wei.liu@...nel.org" <wei.liu@...nel.org>,
        Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>,
        "tglx@...utronix.de" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "mingo@...hat.com" <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "bp@...en8.de" <bp@...en8.de>,
        "dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com" <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        "hpa@...or.com" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Nischala Yelchuri <Nischala.Yelchuri@...rosoft.com>
Cc:     "linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org" <linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org" 
        <linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fixing warning cast removes address space '__iomem' of
 expression

On 10/30/23 22:08, Michael Kelley (LINUX) wrote:
> From: Abhinav Singh <singhabhinav9051571833@...il.com> Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2023 2:26 PM
>>
>>> It turns out that Nischala Yelchuri at Microsoft is
>>> concurrently working on fixing this occurrence as well as the
>>> others we know about in Hyper-V specific code.
>>
>> So should I continue or not with this patch?
>>
> 
> I'll suggest deferring to Nischala's pending patch.  Her patch
> covers all 5 occurrences.  Also, I don't know if you were able
> to test your patch in a Hyper-V Confidential VM.  She did test
> in that configuration and confirmed that nothing broke.
> 
> Of course, feel free to correspond directly with Nischala
> on how best to move forward.  I'm an unnecessary intermediary
> who is just pointing out the overlap. :-)
> 
> Michael

Okay will ask her about the patch.
Thank you for your time to review and guide me :)


Abhinav