Re: [PATCH] x86/paravirt: merge activate_mm and dup_mmap callbacks

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 08:27:50PM -0800, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:

> I see that's not an issue right now since there is no other actual
> user for these callbacks. But are we sure that merging the callbacks
> just because the current user (Xen PV) has the same implementation for
> both is a good idea?

IIRC the pv_ops are part of the PARAVIRT_ME_HARDER (also spelled as
_XXL) suite of ops and they are only to be used by Xen PV, no new users
of these must happen.

The moment we can drop Xen PV (hopes and dreams etc..) all these things
go in the bin right along with it.