Re: [PATCH 3/7] KVM: Move KVM_GET_NR_MMU_PAGES into the deprecation section

[Thomas Huth]

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@xxxxxxxxxx/ ) ... sorry, I 
should have elaborated on this in the cover letter, too.

 Thomas