[RFC PATCH] x86/paravirt: Kill some unused patching functions

From: Borislav Petkov paravirt_patch_ignore() is completely unused and paravirt_patch_nop() doesn't do a whole lot. Remove them both. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Chris Wright

Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] virtio DMA API core stuff

On 29/10/2015 10:01, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > Everyone seems to agree that x86's emulated Q35 thing > > is just buggy right now and should be taught to use the existing ACPI > > mechanism for enumerating passthrough devices. > > I'm not sure what ACPI has to do with it. > It's about a way

Re: [PATCH 3/3] s390/dma: Allow per device dma ops

On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 12:54:39 +0100 Christian Borntraeger wrote: > As virtio-ccw now has dma ops, we can no longer default to the PCI ones. > Make use of dev_archdata to keep the dma_ops per device. The pci devices > now use that to override the default, and the default is

[PATCH 1/3] dma: Provide simple noop dma ops

We are going to require dma_ops for several common drivers, even for systems that do have an identity mapping. Lets provide some minimal no-op dma_ops that can be used for that purpose. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger --- include/linux/dma-mapping.h | 2 ++

[PATCH 2/3] alpha/dma: use common noop dma ops

Some of the alpha pci noop dma ops are identical to the common ones. Use them. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger Reviewed-by: Joerg Roedel --- arch/alpha/kernel/pci-noop.c | 46 1 file changed, 4

[PATCH 3/3] s390/dma: Allow per device dma ops

As virtio-ccw now has dma ops, we can no longer default to the PCI ones. Make use of dev_archdata to keep the dma_ops per device. The pci devices now use that to override the default, and the default is changed to use the noop ops for everything that is not PCI. To compile without PCI support we

[PATCHv3 0/3] dma ops and virtio

Andy, this is the next and hopefully last version. Seems to work fine when replacing the previous patches in your tree. I have some reviews/acks for patch 2 and 3. patch 1 still needs one ack. Can you replace the patches in your tree and carry them along with your changes? old introduction: -

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