Re: [PATCH 0/4] KVM: fix KVM_EXIT_SYSTEM_EVENT mess

Paolo Bonzini
2022-04-22T09:41:44Z

On 4/22/22 09:58, Oliver Upton wrote:
> Is there any way we could clean this up in 5.18 and leave the whole
> ndata/data pattern for 5.19?
>
> IOW, for 5.18 go back and fix the padding:
>
> struct {
> __u32 type;
> __u32 pad;
> __u64 flags;
> } system_event;
>
> Then for 5.19 circle back on the data business, except use a flag bit
> for it:
>
> struct {
> __u32 type;
> __u32 pad;
> #define KVM_SYSTEM_EVENT_NDATA_VALID (1u << 63)
> __u64 flags;
> __u64 ndata;
> __u64 data[16];
> } system_event;
>
> Where we apply that bit to system_event::flags this time instead of
> ::type. Could also go the CAP route.

These patches are against kvm/next, so that is already what I did. :)

On the other hand right now the ARM and RISC-V flags are unusable with
32-bit userspace, so we need to fix _something_ in 5.18 as well. For
your proposal, all that's missing is a 5.18 patch to add the padding.
But since the flags UAPI was completely unused before 5.18 and there's
no reason to inflict the different naming of fields to userspace. So I
think we want to apply this UAPI change in 5.18 too.

Paolo