[PATCH v2 01/37] KVM: PPC: Book3S 64: remove unused kvmppc_h_protect argument

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Sat Feb 27 10:50:09 AEDT 2021


Excerpts from Daniel Axtens's message of February 26, 2021 3:01 pm:
> Hi Nick,
> 
>> The va argument is not used in the function or set by its asm caller,
>> so remove it to be safe.
> 
> Huh, so it isn't. I tracked the original implementation down to commit
> a8606e20e41a ("KVM: PPC: Handle some PAPR hcalls in the kernel") where
> paulus first added the ability to handle it in the kernel - there it
> takes a va argument but even then doesn't do anything with it.
> 
> ajd also pointed out that we don't pass a va when linux is running as a
> guest, and LoPAR does not mention va as an argument.

Yeah interesting, maybe it was from a pre-release version of PAPR? Who
knows.

> One small nit: checkpatch is complaining about spaces vs tabs:
> ERROR: code indent should use tabs where possible
> #25: FILE: arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_ppc.h:770:
> +                      unsigned long pte_index, unsigned long avpn);$
> 
> WARNING: please, no spaces at the start of a line
> #25: FILE: arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_ppc.h:770:
> +                      unsigned long pte_index, unsigned long avpn);$

All the declarations are using the same style in this file so I think
I'll leave it for someone to do a cleanup patch on. Okay?

> 
> Once that is resolved,
>   Reviewed-by: Daniel Axtens <dja at axtens.net>

Thanks,
Nick

> 
> Kind regards,
> Daniel Axtens
> 
>> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_ppc.h  | 3 +--
>>  arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rm_mmu.c | 3 +--
>>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_ppc.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_ppc.h
>> index 8aacd76bb702..9531b1c1b190 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_ppc.h
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_ppc.h
>> @@ -767,8 +767,7 @@ long kvmppc_h_remove(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long flags,
>>                       unsigned long pte_index, unsigned long avpn);
>>  long kvmppc_h_bulk_remove(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
>>  long kvmppc_h_protect(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long flags,
>> -                      unsigned long pte_index, unsigned long avpn,
>> -                      unsigned long va);
>> +                      unsigned long pte_index, unsigned long avpn);
>>  long kvmppc_h_read(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long flags,
>>                     unsigned long pte_index);
>>  long kvmppc_h_clear_ref(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long flags,
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rm_mmu.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rm_mmu.c
>> index 88da2764c1bb..7af7c70f1468 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rm_mmu.c
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rm_mmu.c
>> @@ -673,8 +673,7 @@ long kvmppc_h_bulk_remove(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>>  }
>>  
>>  long kvmppc_h_protect(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long flags,
>> -		      unsigned long pte_index, unsigned long avpn,
>> -		      unsigned long va)
>> +		      unsigned long pte_index, unsigned long avpn)
>>  {
>>  	struct kvm *kvm = vcpu->kvm;
>>  	__be64 *hpte;
>> -- 
>> 2.23.0
> 


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