From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935637AbXGRRlb (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:41:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754571AbXGRRlY (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:41:24 -0400 Received: from [198.99.130.12] ([198.99.130.12]:44109 "EHLO saraswathi.solana.com" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753439AbXGRRlX (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:41:23 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:41:04 -0400 From: Jeff Dike To: Anthony Liguori Cc: Avi Kivity , KVM devel , LKML Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 3/3] KVM - add hypercall nr to kvm_run Message-ID: <20070718174104.GA8655@c2.user-mode-linux.org> References: <20070716192447.GA16253@c2.user-mode-linux.org> <469C7C8D.1020600@qumranet.com> <469CCF17.3020709@codemonkey.ws> <20070717160710.GC7965@c2.user-mode-linux.org> <469E3FA2.7060408@codemonkey.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <469E3FA2.7060408@codemonkey.ws> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 11:28:18AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Within the kernel right (VMCALL is only usable in ring 1). Yup. > Is it > terribly important to be able to pass through the syscall arguments in > registers verses packing them in a data structure and passing a pointer > to that structure? An arg block would be fine, too. Jeff -- Work email - jdike at linux dot intel dot com