From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon) Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 15:09:43 +0100 Subject: [kvmtool test PATCH 22/24] kvmtool: arm64: Add support for guest physical address size In-Reply-To: <1530270944-11351-23-git-send-email-suzuki.poulose@arm.com> References: <1530270944-11351-1-git-send-email-suzuki.poulose@arm.com> <1530270944-11351-23-git-send-email-suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Message-ID: <20180704140943.GF4828@arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 12:15:42PM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote: > Add an option to specify the physical address size used by this > VM. > > Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose > --- > arm/aarch64/include/kvm/kvm-config-arch.h | 5 ++++- > arm/include/arm-common/kvm-config-arch.h | 1 + > 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/arm/aarch64/include/kvm/kvm-config-arch.h b/arm/aarch64/include/kvm/kvm-config-arch.h > index 04be43d..dabd22c 100644 > --- a/arm/aarch64/include/kvm/kvm-config-arch.h > +++ b/arm/aarch64/include/kvm/kvm-config-arch.h > @@ -8,7 +8,10 @@ > "Create PMUv3 device"), \ > OPT_U64('\0', "kaslr-seed", &(cfg)->kaslr_seed, \ > "Specify random seed for Kernel Address Space " \ > - "Layout Randomization (KASLR)"), > + "Layout Randomization (KASLR)"), \ > + OPT_INTEGER('\0', "phys-shift", &(cfg)->phys_shift, \ > + "Specify maximum physical address size (not " \ > + "the amount of memory)"), Given that this is a shift value, I think the help message could be more informative. Something like: "Specify maximum number of bits in a guest physical address" I think I'd actually leave out any mention of memory, because this does actually have an effect on the amount of addressable memory in a way that I don't think we want to describe in half of a usage message line :) Will