[RFC V2 PATCH 1/8] selftests: kvm: Fix inline assembly for hypercall

Vishal Annapurve
2022-05-11T00:08:28Z

Fix inline assembly for hypercall to explicitly set
eax with hypercall number to allow the implementation
to work even in cases where compiler would inline the
function.

Signed-off-by: Vishal Annapurve <vannapurve@google.com>
---
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/x86_64/processor.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/x86_64/processor.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/x86_64/processor.c
index 9f000dfb5594..4d88e1a553bf 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/x86_64/processor.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/x86_64/processor.c
@@ -1461,7 +1461,7 @@ uint64_t kvm_hypercall(uint64_t nr, uint64_t a0, uint64_t a1, uint64_t a2,

asm volatile("vmcall"
: "=a"(r)
- : "b"(a0), "c"(a1), "d"(a2), "S"(a3));
+ : "a"(nr), "b"(a0), "c"(a1), "d"(a2), "S"(a3));
return r;
}

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