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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/7] KVM: Move KVM_GET_NR_MMU_PAGES into the deprecation section
On Fri Feb 3, 2023 at 7:42 PM AEST, Thomas Huth wrote:
> The KVM_GET_NR_MMU_PAGES ioctl is quite questionable on 64-bit hosts
> since it fails to return the full 64 bits of the value that can be
> set with the corresponding KVM_SET_NR_MMU_PAGES call. This ioctl
> likely has also never really been used by userspace applications
> (at least not by QEMU and kvmtool which I checked), so it's better
> to move it to the deprecation section in kvm.h to make it clear for
> developers that this also should not be used in new code in the
> future anymore.

Did this get included in the series inadvertently?

Thanks,
Nick

>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> ---
> include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
> index 55155e262646..f55965a4cec7 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
> @@ -83,6 +83,8 @@ struct kvm_debug_guest {
>
> #define __KVM_DEPRECATED_VCPU_W_0x87 _IOW(KVMIO, 0x87, struct kvm_debug_guest)
>
> +#define KVM_GET_NR_MMU_PAGES _IO(KVMIO, 0x45)
> +
> /* *** End of deprecated interfaces *** */
>
>
> @@ -1442,7 +1444,6 @@ struct kvm_vfio_spapr_tce {
> #define KVM_CREATE_VCPU _IO(KVMIO, 0x41)
> #define KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG _IOW(KVMIO, 0x42, struct kvm_dirty_log)
> #define KVM_SET_NR_MMU_PAGES _IO(KVMIO, 0x44)
> -#define KVM_GET_NR_MMU_PAGES _IO(KVMIO, 0x45)
> #define KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION _IOW(KVMIO, 0x46, \
> struct kvm_userspace_memory_region)
> #define KVM_SET_TSS_ADDR _IO(KVMIO, 0x47)
> --
> 2.31.1

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