Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Feb 2023 11:54:52 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/7] KVM: Move KVM_GET_NR_MMU_PAGES into the deprecation section | From | Thomas Huth <> |
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On 03/02/2023 11.16, Nicholas Piggin wrote: > 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?
No, it's here on purpose, as a second step to patch 2/7 (and a follow up from the discussion last year, see https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/YpZu6%2Fk+8EydfBKf@google.com/ ) ... sorry, I should have elaborated on this in the cover letter, too.
Thomas
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