From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753390AbZEENka (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 May 2009 09:40:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752135AbZEENkS (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 May 2009 09:40:18 -0400 Received: from victor.provo.novell.com ([137.65.250.26]:60242 "EHLO victor.provo.novell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751987AbZEENkQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 May 2009 09:40:16 -0400 Message-ID: <4A0041BA.6060106@novell.com> Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 09:40:10 -0400 From: Gregory Haskins User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Macintosh/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Avi Kivity CC: Gregory Haskins , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] generic hypercall support References: <20090505132005.19891.78436.stgit@dev.haskins.net> <4A0040C0.1080102@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4A0040C0.1080102@redhat.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigB352C0A3FDD21142A4F5A85B" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigB352C0A3FDD21142A4F5A85B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Avi Kivity wrote: > Gregory Haskins wrote: >> (Applies to Linus' tree, b4348f32dae3cb6eb4bc21c7ed8f76c0b11e9d6a) >> >> Please see patch 1/3 for a description. This has been tested with a K= VM >> guest on x86_64 and appears to work properly. Comments, please. >> =20 > > What about the hypercalls in include/asm/kvm_para.h? > > In general, hypercalls cannot be generic since each hypervisor > implements its own ABI. Please see the prologue to 1/3. Its all described there, including a use case which I think answers your questions. If there is still ambiguity, let me know. > The abstraction needs to be at a higher level (pv_ops is such a level= ). Yep, agreed. Thats exactly what this series is doing, actually. -Greg --------------enigB352C0A3FDD21142A4F5A85B Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoAQboACgkQlOSOBdgZUxkfngCdE1DZWI8uYALcfl6BZk03dGhH zwIAnjYXyhTgJ4f1YRSYqUKe0oNtshRX =QgEL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigB352C0A3FDD21142A4F5A85B--