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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/7] KVM: arm64: clean up redundant 'kvm_run'
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On 2020/5/5 16:39, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Hi Tianjia,
> 
> On 2020-04-27 05:35, Tianjia Zhang wrote:
>> In the current kvm version, 'kvm_run' has been included in the 'kvm_vcpu'
>> structure. For historical reasons, many kvm-related function parameters
>> retain the 'kvm_run' and 'kvm_vcpu' parameters at the same time. This
>> patch does a unified cleanup of these remaining redundant parameters.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tianjia Zhang <tianjia.zhang@linux.alibaba.com>
> 
> On the face of it, this looks OK, but I haven't tried to run the
> resulting kernel. I'm not opposed to taking this patch *if* there
> is an agreement across architectures to take the series (I value
> consistency over the janitorial exercise).
> 
> Another thing is that this is going to conflict with the set of
> patches that move the KVM/arm code back where it belongs (arch/arm64/kvm),
> so I'd probably cherry-pick that one directly.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>          M.
> 

Do I need to submit this set of patches separately for each 
architecture? Could it be merged at once, if necessary, I will
resubmit based on the latest mainline.

Thanks,
Tianjia