[GIT PULL 2/9] arm/arm64: kvm: drop inappropriate use of kvm_is_mmio_pfn()

Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Tue Dec 9 04:38:14 PST 2014


On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 01:29:52PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 9 December 2014 at 12:26, Christoffer Dall
> <christoffer.dall at linaro.org> wrote:
> > From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
> >
> > Instead of using kvm_is_mmio_pfn() to decide whether a host region
> > should be stage 2 mapped with device attributes, add a new static
> > function kvm_is_device_pfn() that disregards RAM pages with the
> > reserved bit set, as those should usually not be mapped as device
> > memory.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
> 
> As I mentioned last week, this patch (and the next one) are already in
> 3.18 so unless there is some policy I am unaware of, these do not have
> to be submitted again.
> 
They're in kvmarm/next, which is a stable branch (doesn't rebase) so our
only choice would be to revert this commit specifically in kvmarm/next
before sending the pull request.  Since that would be more confusing
than help anything, and Paolo said to just include the duplicate commit
in the pull request, here it is.

As we can see in linux-next, it's not really a problem.

-Christoffer



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