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From: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
To: Daniel Henrique Barboza <dbarboza@ventanamicro.com>
Cc: kvm-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org,
	 kvm@vger.kernel.org, anup@brainfault.org, atishp@atishpatra.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 9/9] docs: kvm: riscv: document EBUSY in KVM_SET_ONE_REG
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2023 11:17:20 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230802-4751804e563fb13903ef6277@orel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230801222629.210929-10-dbarboza@ventanamicro.com>

On Tue, Aug 01, 2023 at 07:26:29PM -0300, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
> The EBUSY errno is being used for KVM_SET_ONE_REG as a way to tell
> userspace that a given reg can't be written after the vcpu started.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <dbarboza@ventanamicro.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
> index c0ddd3035462..229e7cc091c8 100644
> --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
> @@ -2259,6 +2259,8 @@ Errors:
>    EINVAL   invalid register ID, or no such register or used with VMs in
>             protected virtualization mode on s390
>    EPERM    (arm64) register access not allowed before vcpu finalization
> +  EBUSY    (riscv) register access not allowed after the vcpu has run
> +           at least once

We allow access (reading, even before, and now also writing when the value
is the same), so this should be worded in a way that conveys the register
may not be changed after the vcpu has run once.

Thanks,
drew

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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-01 22:26 [PATCH v2 0/9] RISC-V: KVM: change get_reg/set_reg error codes Daniel Henrique Barboza
2023-08-01 22:26 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] RISC-V: KVM: return ENOENT in *_one_reg() when reg is unknown Daniel Henrique Barboza
2023-08-01 22:26 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] RISC-V: KVM: use ENOENT in *_one_reg() when extension is unavailable Daniel Henrique Barboza
2023-08-01 22:26 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] RISC-V: KVM: do not EOPNOTSUPP in set_one_reg() zicbo(m|z) Daniel Henrique Barboza
2023-08-01 22:26 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] RISC-V: KVM: do not EOPNOTSUPP in set KVM_REG_RISCV_TIMER_REG Daniel Henrique Barboza
2023-08-01 22:26 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] RISC-V: KVM: use EBUSY when !vcpu->arch.ran_atleast_once Daniel Henrique Barboza
2023-08-01 22:26 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] RISC-V: KVM: avoid EBUSY when writing same ISA val Daniel Henrique Barboza
2023-08-01 22:26 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] RISC-V: KVM: avoid EBUSY when writing the same machine ID val Daniel Henrique Barboza
2023-08-01 22:26 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] RISC-V: KVM: avoid EBUSY when writing the same isa_ext val Daniel Henrique Barboza
2023-08-01 22:26 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] docs: kvm: riscv: document EBUSY in KVM_SET_ONE_REG Daniel Henrique Barboza
2023-08-02  8:17   ` Andrew Jones [this message]
2023-08-02  9:04 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] RISC-V: KVM: change get_reg/set_reg error codes Andrew Jones
2023-08-02  9:06   ` Andrew Jones

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