linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] eventfd: simplify eventfd

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Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2024 15:34:59 +0100
From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] eventfd: simplify eventfd_signal()

On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 1:49 PM Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> Ever since the evenfd type was introduced back in 2007 in commit
> e1ad7468c77d ("signal/timer/event: eventfd core") the eventfd_signal()
> function only ever passed 1 as a value for @n. There's no point in
> keeping that additional argument.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c                     |  2 +-
>  arch/x86/kvm/xen.c                        |  2 +-
>  virt/kvm/eventfd.c                        |  4 ++--
>  30 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)

For KVM:

Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>