From: Siddharth Chandrasekaran <sidcha@amazon.de>
To: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, <kys@microsoft.com>,
<haiyangz@microsoft.com>, <sthemmin@microsoft.com>,
<tglx@linutronix.de>, <mingo@redhat.com>, <bp@alien8.de>,
<x86@kernel.org>, <hpa@zytor.com>, <seanjc@google.com>,
<vkuznets@redhat.com>, <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
<jmattson@google.com>, <joro@8bytes.org>, <graf@amazon.com>,
<eyakovl@amazon.de>, <linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add support for XMM fast hypercalls
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2021 18:21:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210408162102.GE32315@u366d62d47e3651.ant.amazon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210408153813.iu3teoor6c6m6kzb@liuwe-devbox-debian-v2>
On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 03:38:13PM +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 05:30:26PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > On 08/04/21 17:28, Wei Liu wrote:
> > > > Although the Hyper-v TLFS mentions that a guest cannot use this feature
> > > > unless the hypervisor advertises support for it, some hypercalls which
> > > > we plan on upstreaming in future uses them anyway.
> > >
> > > No, please don't do this. Check the feature bit(s) before you issue
> > > hypercalls which rely on the extended interface.
> >
> > Perhaps Siddharth should clarify this, but I read it as Hyper-V being buggy
> > and using XMM arguments unconditionally.
> >
>
> There is no code in upstream Linux that uses the XMM fast hypercall
> interface at the moment.
>
> If there is such code, it has bugs in it and should be fixed. :-)
None of the existing hypercalls are buggy. These are some hypercalls we
are working on (and planning on upstreaming in the near future).
~ Sid.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-08 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-07 21:29 [PATCH 0/4] Add support for XMM fast hypercalls Siddharth Chandrasekaran
2021-04-08 15:28 ` Wei Liu
2021-04-08 15:30 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-04-08 15:38 ` Wei Liu
2021-04-08 16:21 ` Siddharth Chandrasekaran [this message]
2021-04-08 15:40 ` Siddharth Chandrasekaran
2021-04-08 15:48 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-04-08 15:54 ` Siddharth Chandrasekaran
2021-04-08 16:30 ` Wei Liu
2021-04-08 17:45 ` Siddharth Chandrasekaran
2021-04-09 7:42 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2021-04-09 7:59 ` Siddharth Chandrasekaran
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