linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/6] KVM: s390: wire up seb feature

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Date:   Wed, 17 Jan 2018 12:22:38 +0100
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jon Masters <jcm@...hat.com>,
        Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de>,
        Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] KVM: s390: wire up seb feature

> while this is kvm code, my current plan is to submit the "final"
> version after review and probably some fixes/renames via Martin
> together with the other patches.  Are you ok with that? Right now it
> seems that the CAP number is still fine.
Sure, though there will be a capability introduced by PPC for similar
purposes, so check for conflicts.

On 17/01/2018 12:18, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
> index 2c93cbb..0c18f73 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
> +++ b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
> @@ -421,6 +421,9 @@ int kvm_vm_ioctl_check_extension(struct kvm *kvm, long ext)
>  	case KVM_CAP_S390_GS:
>  		r = test_facility(133);
>  		break;
> +	case KVM_CAP_S390_SEB:
> +		r = test_facility(82);
> +		break;
>  	default:
>  		r = 0;

Can you add a generic "test facility" capability and ioctl?

Paolo