Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 3 authors, 2021-09-23

Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] x86/xen: simplify irq pvops

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: 2021-09-22 12:50:12
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On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 12:31:00PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
The pvops function for Xen PV guests handling the interrupt flag are
much more complex than needed.

With the supported Xen hypervisor versions they can be simplified a
lot, especially by removing the need for disabling preemption.

Juergen Gross (2):
  x86/xen: remove xen_have_vcpu_info_placement flag
  x86/xen: switch initial pvops IRQ functions to dummy ones

 arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h |   2 +
 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c            |  13 ++-
 arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c              | 116 ++++++--------------------
 arch/x86/xen/enlighten_hvm.c          |   6 +-
 arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c           |  28 ++-----
 arch/x86/xen/irq.c                    |  61 +-------------
 arch/x86/xen/smp.c                    |  24 ------
 arch/x86/xen/xen-ops.h                |   4 +-
 8 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 201 deletions(-)
That looks awesome, I'm totally in favour of deleting code :-)

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
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