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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	KVM devel <kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] KVM - add hypercall nr to kvm_run
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:40:24 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <469C8078.2010900@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <469C7C8D.1020600@qumranet.com>

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Jeff Dike wrote:
>> Add the hypercall number to kvm_run and initialize it.  This might be
>> considered API-changing, so I kept it separate.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
>> -- 
>>  drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c |    1 +
>>  include/linux/kvm.h    |    1 +
>>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>
>> Index: kvm/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- kvm.orig/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c
>> +++ kvm/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c
>> @@ -1361,6 +1361,7 @@ int kvm_hypercall(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>>      }
>>      switch (nr) {
>>      default:
>> +        run->hypercall.nr = nr;
>>          run->hypercall.args[0] = a0;
>>          run->hypercall.args[1] = a1;
>>          run->hypercall.args[2] = a2;
>> Index: kvm/include/linux/kvm.h
>> ===================================================================
>> --- kvm.orig/include/linux/kvm.h
>> +++ kvm/include/linux/kvm.h
>> @@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ struct kvm_run {
>>          } mmio;
>>          /* KVM_EXIT_HYPERCALL */
>>          struct {
>> +            __u64 nr;
>>              __u64 args[6];
>>              __u64 ret;
>>              __u32 longmode;
>>   
>
> It isn't API changing as the API could not be (and has not been) 
> used.  We do need to add a padding element to the union to make sure 
> additional union members don't cause its size to change.
>
> Quite sad that we got this far with such brokenness.
>

Applied this, btw.  Thanks.


-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-17  8:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-16 19:24 [PATCH 3/3] KVM - add hypercall nr to kvm_run Jeff Dike
2007-07-17  8:23 ` Avi Kivity
2007-07-17  8:40   ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2007-07-17 14:15   ` [kvm-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2007-07-17 16:07     ` Jeff Dike
2007-07-18 16:28       ` Anthony Liguori
2007-07-18 17:41         ` Jeff Dike
2007-07-18 19:25           ` Anthony Liguori

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