Re: [RFC 2/2] kvm: guest-side changes for tmem on KVM

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:30:35AM +0530, Akshay Karle wrote:
> >> +/* kvm tmem foundation ops/hypercalls */
> >> +
> >> +static inline int kvm_tmem_op(u32 tmem_cmd, u32 tmem_pool, struct tmem_oid oid,
> >> +	u32 index, u32 tmem_offset, u32 pfn_offset, unsigned long pfn, u32 len, uint16_t cli_id)
> >
> > That is rather long list of arguments. Could you pass in a structure instead?
> >
> > Are you actually using all of the arguments in every call?
> 
> For different functions different parameters are used. If we want to reduce the number of arguments,
> the tmem_ops structure can be created in the functions calling kvm_tmem_op instead of creating it here
> and that can be passed, will make these changes in the next patch.
> 
> >> +{
> >> +	struct tmem_ops op;
> >> +	int rc = 0;
> >> +	op.cmd = tmem_cmd;
> >> +	op.pool_id = tmem_pool;
> >> +	op.u.gen.oid[0] = oid.oid[0];
> >> +	op.u.gen.oid[1] = oid.oid[1];
> >> +	op.u.gen.oid[2] = oid.oid[2];
> >> +	op.u.gen.index = index;
> >> +	op.u.gen.tmem_offset = tmem_offset;
> >> +	op.u.gen.pfn_offset = pfn_offset;
> >> +	op.u.gen.pfn = pfn;
> >> +	op.u.gen.len = len;
> >> +	op.u.gen.cli_id = cli_id;
> >> +	rc = kvm_hypercall1(KVM_HC_TMEM, virt_to_phys(&op));
> >> +	rc = rc + 1000;
> >
> > Why the addition?
> 
> If you notice the host patch I had subtracted 1000 while passing the return value
> in the kvm_emulate_hypercall function. This was to avoid the guest kernel panic due to
> the return of a non-negative value by the kvm_hypercall. In order to get the original value
> back I added 1000.

Avi, is there a right way of doing this?