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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: milanpa@amazon.com, Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.de>,
	Milan Pandurov <milanpa@amazon.de>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: rkrcmar@redhat.com, borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kvm: Add ioctl for gathering debug counters
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 17:15:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f71763ad-2336-0436-39fc-bb476b559eee@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01dc5863-91b4-6ee0-2985-8c2bf41e73e9@amazon.com>

On 23/01/20 16:27, milanpa@amazon.com wrote:
>>
>>
>> Paolo
>>
> I agree, extending the API with GET_AVAILABLE_ONE_REGS (and possibly a
> bitmask argument to narrow down which type of registers userspace is
> interested in) is a clean solution. We won't require userspace to rely
> on constants in compile time if it doesn't need to.
> 
> Only concern is that now we need to have some kind of datastructure for
> keeping the mappings between all available ONE_REG IDs and their
> strings/descriptions. Additionally enforcing that newly added ONE_REGs
> always get added to that mapping, is also necessary.

For now just do the implementation for VM ONE_REGs.  We'll worry about
the existing VCPU registers later.

Paolo


  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-23 16:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-15 13:43 [PATCH 2/2] kvm: Add ioctl for gathering debug counters Milan Pandurov
2020-01-15 14:04 ` Alexander Graf
2020-01-15 14:43   ` milanpa
2020-01-15 14:59     ` Alexander Graf
2020-01-17 23:38       ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-01-20 17:53         ` Alexander Graf
2020-01-20 18:57           ` milanpa
2020-01-21 15:38             ` Alexander Graf
2020-01-23 12:08               ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-01-23 12:32                 ` Alexander Graf
2020-01-23 14:19                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-01-23 14:45                     ` Alexander Graf
2020-01-23 14:50                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-01-23 14:58                         ` Alexander Graf
2020-01-23 15:05                           ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-01-23 15:27                             ` milanpa
2020-01-23 16:15                               ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2020-01-23 18:31                                 ` milanpa

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