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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>,
	Olaf Schnapper <os@de.ibm.com>,
	Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm-userspace: fix memslot assignment
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:24:13 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4891A0DD.5000503@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807311001.07426.borntraeger@de.ibm.com>

Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 29. Juli 2008 schrieb Avi Kivity:
>   
>> They all start with 0 AFAIK (kvm also starts with 0, it just wants it to 
>> be a special slot).
>>     
>
> Now my brain hurts....
> Ok, so I read this as: ppc, ia64 and s390 can start with slot 0 and it is not a special slot.
> On x86 slot 0 is special, if
> * KVM_CAP_SET_TSS_ADDR is not available
> or
> * The ioctl VM_CAP_SET_TSS_ADDR returns <=0
>
>   

I think this is right.  Izik can you confirm?

> +#if defined(__x86_64__) || defined(__i386__)
> +#if defined(KVM_CAP_SET_TSS_ADDR)
> +	if (ioctl(kvm->fd, KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION, KVM_CAP_SET_TSS_ADDR) > 0)
>   

Should be <= here?

> +		i++;
> +#else
> +	i++;
> +#endif
> +#endif
>   

Suggest a helper, kvm_supports_set_tss_addr(), to reduce further 
braindamage.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-31 11:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-25 15:38 [PATCH] kvm-userspace: fix memslot assignment Christian Borntraeger
2008-07-27  8:18 ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-28 16:55   ` Christian Borntraeger
2008-07-29 13:18     ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-31  8:01       ` Christian Borntraeger
2008-07-31 11:24         ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-07-31 12:03           ` Izik Eidos
2008-07-31 12:53           ` Christian Borntraeger
2008-07-31 13:00             ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-31 14:57               ` Christian Borntraeger

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