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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 04/14] KVM: Remove CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_ARCH_TLB_FLUSH_ALL
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To:     Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@google.com>,
        Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
        James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
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        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
        Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>,
        Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>,
        Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>,
        Atish Patra <atishp@atishpatra.org>,
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On 9/8/23 01:13, Raghavendra Rao Ananta wrote:
> kvm_arch_flush_remote_tlbs() or CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_ARCH_TLB_FLUSH_ALL
> are two mechanisms to solve the same problem, allowing
> architecture-specific code to provide a non-IPI implementation of
> remote TLB flushing.
> 
> Dropping CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_ARCH_TLB_FLUSH_ALL allows KVM to standardize
> all architectures on kvm_arch_flush_remote_tlbs() instead of
> maintaining two mechanisms.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@google.com>
> Reviewed-by: Shaoqin Huang <shahuang@redhat.com>
> ---
>   virt/kvm/Kconfig    | 3 ---
>   virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 2 --
>   2 files changed, 5 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>