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From: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Jones <andrew.jones@linux.dev>,
	Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>,
	Atish Patra <atishp@atishpatra.org>,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>,
	Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>,
	Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] KVM: selftests: Remove unnecessary register shuffling in fix_hypercall_test
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 21:19:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YyjczAkNtxVYJoyN@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220908233134.3523339-4-seanjc@google.com>

On Thu, Sep 08, 2022 at 11:31:32PM +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Use input constraints to load RAX and RBX when testing that KVM correctly
> does/doesn't patch the "wrong" hypercall.  There's no need to manually
> load RAX and RBX, and no reason to clobber them either (KVM is not
> supposed to modify anything other than RAX).

Too much time on 'the other architecture' where we don't have input
constraints to load named registers per-se :)

> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>

Reviewed-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>

--
Thanks,
Oliver

  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-19 21:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-08 23:31 [PATCH 0/5] KVM: selftests: Fix "fix hypercall test" build errors Sean Christopherson
2022-09-08 23:31 ` [PATCH 1/5] KVM: selftests: Implement memcmp(), memcpy(), and memset() for guest use Sean Christopherson
2022-09-22 17:29   ` David Matlack
2022-09-22 17:40     ` Sean Christopherson
2022-09-22 17:49       ` David Matlack
2022-09-22 18:20         ` Sean Christopherson
2022-09-08 23:31 ` [PATCH 2/5] KVM: selftests: Compare insn opcodes directly in fix_hypercall_test Sean Christopherson
2022-09-19 21:17   ` Oliver Upton
2022-09-08 23:31 ` [PATCH 3/5] KVM: selftests: Remove unnecessary register shuffling " Sean Christopherson
2022-09-19 21:19   ` Oliver Upton [this message]
2022-09-08 23:31 ` [PATCH 4/5] KVM: selftests: Explicitly verify KVM doesn't patch hypercall if quirk==off Sean Christopherson
2022-09-19 21:23   ` Oliver Upton
2022-09-20 18:46     ` Sean Christopherson
2022-09-08 23:31 ` [PATCH 5/5] KVM: selftests: Dedup subtests of fix_hypercall_test Sean Christopherson
2022-09-19 21:26   ` Oliver Upton
2022-09-22  7:04 ` [PATCH 0/5] KVM: selftests: Fix "fix hypercall test" build errors Christian Borntraeger
2022-09-22 17:20 ` David Matlack
2022-09-22 17:53   ` Jim Mattson
2022-09-22 18:15     ` Sean Christopherson

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