netdev - Re: [PATCH 09/12] hv_netvsc: Remove second mapping of send and recv buffers

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Message-ID: <9a4edf34-6e49-9fd0-fc23-2536c5f087ea@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 8 Nov 2022 18:36:40 +0800
From:   Tianyu Lan <ltykernel@...il.com>
To:     Michael Kelley <mikelley@...rosoft.com>, hpa@...or.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/12] hv_netvsc: Remove second mapping of send and recv
 buffers

On 10/21/2022 1:57 AM, Michael Kelley wrote:
> With changes to how Hyper-V guest VMs flip memory between private
> (encrypted) and shared (decrypted), creating a second kernel virtual
> mapping for shared memory is no longer necessary.  Everything needed
> for the transition to shared is handled by set_memory_decrypted().
> 
> As such, remove the code to create and manage the second
> mapping for the pre-allocated send and recv buffers.  This mapping
> is the last user of hv_map_memory()/hv_unmap_memory(), so delete
> these functions as well.  Finally, hv_map_memory() is the last
> user of vmap_pfn() in Hyper-V guest code, so remove the Kconfig
> selection of VMAP_PFN.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley<mikelley@...rosoft.com>

Reviewed-by: Tianyu Lan <Tianyu.Lan@...rosoft.com>