From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
Alan Kao <alankao@andestech.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List"
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Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>,
Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>, Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>,
Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
linux-riscv <linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] RISC-V: Move SBI related macros under uapi.
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 08:39:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191008153924.GA20318@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAhSdy2kAze4bt17kVA3tB4H6qXPMSUroi5ybPcTvFB_=p48oQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 11:00:05AM +0530, Anup Patel wrote:
> These defines are indeed part of KVM userspace API because we will
> be forwarding SBI calls not handled by KVM RISC-V kernel module to
> KVM userspace (QEMU/KVMTOOL). The forwarded SBI call details
> are passed to userspace via "struct kvm_run" of KVM_RUN ioctl.
At best your are passing through a hardware interface. We don't expose
e.g. the nvme headers to userspace either. We keep the headers clean
enough that userspace can copy them (and a few projects do), but they
really are not a kernel interface in any classic way.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-08 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-27 0:09 [PATCH v2 0/3] Add support for SBI v0.2 Atish Patra
2019-09-27 0:09 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] RISC-V: Mark existing SBI as 0.1 SBI Atish Patra
2019-09-27 5:47 ` Anup Patel
2019-09-27 22:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-09-27 0:09 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] RISC-V: Add basic support for SBI v0.2 Atish Patra
2019-09-27 5:47 ` Anup Patel
2019-10-03 5:18 ` Anup Patel
2019-09-27 0:09 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] RISC-V: Move SBI related macros under uapi Atish Patra
2019-09-27 5:48 ` Anup Patel
2019-09-27 22:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-10-03 5:30 ` Anup Patel
2019-10-08 15:39 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2019-09-27 22:19 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Add support for SBI v0.2 Christoph Hellwig
2019-09-27 22:57 ` Atish Patra
2019-10-01 4:58 ` Alan Kao
2019-10-01 7:31 ` Atish Patra
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