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From: stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com (Stefano Stabellini)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH-WIP 01/13] xen/arm: use r12 to pass the hypercall number to the hypervisor
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:21:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1202281131550.23091@kaball-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120228094616.GA2063@linaro.org>

On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Dave Martin wrote:
> > Given that Stefano is proposing to make the ISS a (per-hypervisor)
> > constant we could consider just defining the Thumb and non-Thumb
> > constants instead of doing all the construction with the __HVC_IMM stuff
> > -- that would remove a big bit of the macroization.
> 
> It's not quite as simple as that -- emitting instructions using data
> directives is not endianness safe, and even in the cases where .long gives
> the right result for ARM, it gives the wrong result for 32-bit Thumb
> instructions if the opcode is given in human-readable order.
> 
> I was trying to solve the same problem for the kvm guys with some global
> macros -- I'm aiming to get a patch posted soon, so I'll make sure
> you're on CC.
 
That would be great, thanks!

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-28 12:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-23 17:47 [PATCH-WIP 00/13] xen/arm: receive Xen events and initialize xenbus Stefano Stabellini
2012-02-23 17:48 ` [PATCH-WIP 01/13] xen/arm: use r12 to pass the hypercall number to the hypervisor Stefano Stabellini
2012-02-27 16:27   ` Ian Campbell
2012-02-27 18:03     ` Dave Martin
2012-02-27 19:33       ` Ian Campbell
2012-02-28 10:20         ` Dave Martin
2012-02-28 10:48           ` Ian Campbell
2012-02-28 12:28             ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-02-29  9:34               ` Dave Martin
2012-02-29  9:56                 ` Ian Campbell
2012-02-29 11:47                   ` Dave Martin
2012-02-29 12:58                   ` Dave Martin
2012-02-29 14:44                     ` Ian Campbell
2012-03-01  9:35                       ` Dave Martin
2012-03-01 10:12                       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-03-02 21:19                       ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-02-29 14:52                     ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-03-01  9:51                       ` Dave Martin
2012-03-01 10:10                     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-03-01 10:27                       ` Dave Martin
2012-03-01 10:35                         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-03-01 12:12                           ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-03-02 21:15                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-03-08  9:58                       ` Richard Earnshaw
2012-03-08 12:17                         ` Dave Martin
2012-03-08 17:21                         ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-03-08 18:47                           ` Richard Earnshaw
2012-03-09 15:58                             ` Dave Martin
2012-03-09 16:20                               ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-03-09 17:38                                 ` Richard Earnshaw
2012-02-27 21:05     ` Peter Maydell
2012-02-28 10:12       ` Ian Campbell
2012-02-27 17:53   ` Dave Martin
2012-02-27 19:48     ` Ian Campbell
2012-02-28  9:46       ` Dave Martin
2012-02-28 10:07         ` Ian Campbell
2012-02-28 12:21         ` Stefano Stabellini [this message]
2012-02-23 17:48 ` [PATCH-WIP 02/13] xen/arm: introduce privcmp, physdev_op and memory_op hypercalls Stefano Stabellini
2012-02-23 17:48 ` [PATCH-WIP 03/13] xen/arm: mmu.h and page.h related definitions Stefano Stabellini
2012-02-23 17:48 ` [PATCH-WIP 04/13] xen/arm: sync_bitops Stefano Stabellini
2012-02-23 17:48 ` [PATCH-WIP 05/13] xen/arm: empty implementation of grant_table arch specific functions Stefano Stabellini
2012-02-23 17:48 ` [PATCH-WIP 06/13] xen/arm: missing includes Stefano Stabellini
2012-02-23 17:48 ` [PATCH-WIP 07/13] xen/arm: receive xen events on arm Stefano Stabellini
2012-02-24 11:12   ` David Vrabel
2012-02-24 12:23     ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-02-23 17:48 ` [PATCH-WIP 08/13] xen/arm: fix arm xen guest handle definitions Stefano Stabellini
2012-02-23 17:48 ` [PATCH-WIP 09/13] xen/arm: shared_info and start_info Stefano Stabellini
2012-02-23 17:48 ` [PATCH-WIP 10/13] xen/arm: empty implementation of xen_remap_domain_mfn_range Stefano Stabellini
2012-02-23 17:48 ` [PATCH-WIP 11/13] xen/arm: Introduce xen_pfn_t for pfn and mfn types Stefano Stabellini
2012-02-23 17:48 ` [PATCH-WIP 12/13] xen/arm: compile and run xenbus Stefano Stabellini
2012-02-23 17:48 ` [PATCH-WIP 13/13] xen/arm: compile grant-table features events and xenbus, do not compile pci Stefano Stabellini

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