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KVM: MIPS: Drop partial KVM_NMI implementation
authorJames Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Wed, 4 Jan 2017 22:05:22 +0000 (22:05 +0000)
committerJames Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Fri, 3 Feb 2017 15:20:42 +0000 (15:20 +0000)
commit00104b4171491794b53f8d6cc255f539e8bf18b4
treef948a3fe5f39393d7fe80188110c8a5ca364162a
parentadb0b25f780d543efb57738bcc525045a180e058
KVM: MIPS: Drop partial KVM_NMI implementation

MIPS incompletely implements the KVM_NMI ioctl to supposedly perform a
CPU reset, but all it actually does is invalidate the ASIDs. It doesn't
expose the KVM_CAP_USER_NMI capability which is supposed to indicate the
presence of the KVM_NMI ioctl, and no user software actually uses it on
MIPS.

Since this is dead code that would technically need updating for GVA
page table handling in upcoming patches, remove it now. If we wanted to
implement NMI injection later it can always be done properly along with
the KVM_CAP_USER_NMI capability, and if we wanted to implement a proper
CPU reset it would be better done with a separate ioctl.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
arch/mips/kvm/mips.c