Re: [PATCH] x86/mm: drop further relics of translated PV domains

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>]

>>> On 09.06.17 at 19:38, <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> wrote:
> On 08/06/17 16:30, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> For PV domains paging_mode_{refcounts,translate}() are always false as
>> of commits 4045953527 ("x86/paging: Enforce PG_external == PG_translate
>> == PG_refcounts") and 92942fd3d4 ("x86/mm: drop
>> guest_{map,get_eff}_l1e() hooks").
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>

Thanks.

> There are more cases as well.  I will rebase my series over this patch
> when you commit it, because the extra cases only become obvious after
> the other cleanup which is still pending. 

Oh, interesting. I'm curious to see what further ones I didn't spot.

> One style query though...
> 
>> @@ -3384,11 +3368,9 @@ long do_mmuext_op(
>>  
>>              if ( op.arg1.mfn != 0 )
>>              {
>> -                if ( paging_mode_refcounts(d) )
>> -                    rc = get_page_from_pagenr(op.arg1.mfn, d) ? 0 : -EINVAL;
>> -                else
>> -                    rc = get_page_and_type_from_pagenr(
>> -                        op.arg1.mfn, PGT_root_page_table, d, 0, 1);
>> +                rc = get_page_and_type_from_pagenr(op.arg1.mfn,
>> +                                                   PGT_root_page_table,
>> +                                                   d, 0, 1);
> 
> Why do you choose to squash the parameters on the right hand side?  For
> cases like this, the style of the old code is neater IMO.

I think this alternative style is contrary to general style guidelines,
and hence I'm trying to eliminate it wherever the result doesn't end
up being completely unreadable. (Of course this also is a general
hint to not use overly long function names.)

Jan


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