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Date:   Mon, 4 Jun 2018 17:53:33 +0800
From:   gengdongjiu <gengdongjiu@...wei.com>
To:     Eric Northup <digitaleric@...gle.com>
CC:     <rkrcmar@...hat.com>, <corbet@....net>, <christoffer.dall@....com>,
        "Marc Zyngier" <marc.zyngier@....com>, <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        <will.deacon@....com>, KVM <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>, <james.morse@....com>,
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] arm/arm64: KVM: Add KVM_GET/SET_VCPU_EVENTS


On 2018/6/2 5:22, Eric Northup wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 10:04 PM Dongjiu Geng <gengdongjiu@...wei.com> wrote:
>>
>> For the migrating VMs, user space may need to know the exception

[...]

>> +               __u8 pad[6];
>> +               __u64 serror_esr;
>> +       } exception;
>> +       __u32 reserved[12];
> 
> It will be easier to re-purpose this in the future if the field is
> reserved and is checked that it must be zero.  SET_VCPU_EVENTS would
> return EINVAL if reserved fields get used until a later meaning is
> defined for them.
Ok, thanks. I will check the reserved fields when calling SET_VCPU_EVENTS.

> 
>> +};
>> +
>>  /* If you need to interpret the index values, here is the key: */
>>  #define KVM_REG_ARM_COPROC_MASK                0x000000000FFF0000
>>  #define KVM_REG_ARM_COPROC_SHIFT       16
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c
>> index 56a0260..71d3841 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c
>> @@ -289,6 +289,42 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_set_sregs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>>         return -EINVAL;
>>  }
>>
[...]
>> --
>> 2.7.4
>>
> 
> .
>