RE: [PATCH 5/5] X86: Hyper-V: Consolidate the allocation of the hypercall input page

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2018, KY Srinivasan wrote:

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> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] X86: Hyper-V: Consolidate the allocation of the
> > hypercall input page
> > 
> > On Wed, 25 Apr 2018, kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 
> > > From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Consolidate the allocation of the hypercall input page.
> > 
> > Again. You can provide the new way of allocation first, then you don't have
> > to add code first in order to remove it later again. 
> 
> I have implemented the new way upfront for the new code - the IPI code
> [PATCH 2/5] X86: Hyper-V: Enable IPI enlightenments.
> What I am doing here using that infrastructure for the TLB flush enlightenments
> and getting rid of unnecessary code.

Ok. I maybe misread it, but a bit more elaborate change log might help to
avoid that.

Thanks,

	tglx