Re: [PATCH-for-5.2] exec: Remove MemoryRegion::global_locking field

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 07/08/20 12:02, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 05:07:26PM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> Last uses of memory_region_clear_global_locking() have been
>> removed in commit 7070e085d4 ("acpi: mark PMTIMER as unlocked")
>> and commit 08565552f7 ("cputlb: Move NOTDIRTY handling from I/O
>> path to TLB path").
>> Remove memory_region_clear_global_locking() and the now unused
>> 'global_locking' field in MemoryRegion.
>>
>> Reported-by: Alexander Bulekov <alxndr@bu.edu>
>> Suggested-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  include/exec/memory.h | 14 --------------
>>  accel/tcg/cputlb.c    |  4 ++--
>>  exec.c                |  2 +-
>>  softmmu/memory.c      |  6 ------
>>  4 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
> 
> It can be added back in later, if necessary. For now let's drop the dead
> code.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
> 

I expect it will come back since Linaro is working on BQL-free interrupt
handling for TCG, but no objections.

Paolo

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