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Date:   Thu, 16 Sep 2021 18:13:08 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To:     Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.13 345/380] KVM: arm64: vgic: move irq->get_input_level
 into an ops structure
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On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 07:25:27PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>On Thu, 16 Sep 2021 17:01:42 +0100,
>Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>
>> From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit db75f1a33f82ad332b6e139c5960e01999969d2c ]
>>
>> We already have the option to attach a callback to an interrupt
>> to retrieve its pending state. As we are planning to expand this
>> facility, move this callback into its own data structure.
>>
>> This will limit the size of individual interrupts as the ops
>> structures can be shared across multiple interrupts.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm64/kvm/arch_timer.c |  8 ++++++--
>>  arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic.c  | 14 +++++++-------
>>  include/kvm/arm_vgic.h      | 28 +++++++++++++++++-----------
>>  3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>
>As I replied to Sasha earlier, I don't see a good reason to backport
>this, as it doesn't improve anything on its own. Unless there is a
>compelling reason to get this backported, I'd rather see it dropped.

Yes, I'll drop it. I originally brought it as a dependency for a patch
that ended up being dropped. Thanks for pointing it out!

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha