[PATCH 13/25] arm/arm64: KVM: Get rid of KVM_MEMSLOT_INCOHERENT
Marc Zyngier
marc.zyngier at arm.com
Thu Feb 9 06:59:11 PST 2017
KVM_MEMSLOT_INCOHERENT is not used anymore, as we've killed its
only use in the arm/arm64 MMU code. Let's remove the last artifacts.
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
---
arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c | 9 ---------
include/linux/kvm_host.h | 1 -
2 files changed, 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
index 5cc35080..962616f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -1876,15 +1876,6 @@ void kvm_arch_free_memslot(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *free,
int kvm_arch_create_memslot(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot,
unsigned long npages)
{
- /*
- * Readonly memslots are not incoherent with the caches by definition,
- * but in practice, they are used mostly to emulate ROMs or NOR flashes
- * that the guest may consider devices and hence map as uncached.
- * To prevent incoherency issues in these cases, tag all readonly
- * regions as incoherent.
- */
- if (slot->flags & KVM_MEM_READONLY)
- slot->flags |= KVM_MEMSLOT_INCOHERENT;
return 0;
}
diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
index 1c5190d..cda457b 100644
--- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@
* include/linux/kvm_h.
*/
#define KVM_MEMSLOT_INVALID (1UL << 16)
-#define KVM_MEMSLOT_INCOHERENT (1UL << 17)
/* Two fragments for cross MMIO pages. */
#define KVM_MAX_MMIO_FRAGMENTS 2
--
2.1.4
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