On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 11:50:35AM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote: > Move the implementations of KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG and KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG > for CONFIG_KVM_GENERIC_DIRTYLOG_READ_PROTECT into common KVM code. > The arch specific implemenations are extremely similar, differing > only in whether the dirty log needs to be sync'd from hardware (x86) > and how the TLBs are flushed. Add new arch hooks to handle sync > and TLB flush; the sync will also be used for non-generic dirty log > support in a future patch (s390). > > The ulterior motive for providing a common implementation is to > eliminate the dependency between arch and common code with respect to > the memslot referenced by the dirty log, i.e. to make it obvious in the > code that the validity of the memslot is guaranteed, as a future patch > will rework memslot handling such that id_to_memslot() can return NULL. I notice you add empty definitions of kvm_arch_sync_dirty_log() for PPC, both Book E and Book 3S. Given that PPC doesn't select CONFIG_KVM_GENERIC_DIRTYLOG_READ_PROTECT, why is this necessary? Paul.