linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] arm/arm64: KVM: enable 32 bits kvm vcpu events support

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Date:   Fri, 12 Oct 2018 12:35:48 +0100
From:   James Morse <james.morse@....com>
To:     Dongjiu Geng <gengdongjiu@...wei.com>
Cc:     christoffer.dall@....com, marc.zyngier@....com,
        suzuki.poulose@....com, peter.maydell@...aro.org,
        drjones@...hat.com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] arm/arm64: KVM: enable 32 bits kvm vcpu events
 support

Hi Dongjiu Geng,

On 11/10/2018 20:07, Dongjiu Geng wrote:
> The commit 539aee0edb9f ("KVM: arm64: Share the parts of
> get/set events useful to 32bit") shares the get/set events
> helper for arm64 and arm32, 

Oops. I evidently didn't test this bit. Looks like I just depended on the symbol
to be defined, I didn't check the CAP was exposed.


> it is better also share the check
> for vcpu events capability to enable 32 bit kvm vcpu events
> support.

not just better, necessary for correctly-written user-space to know the feature
is supported. This last bit would be clearer as: "but forgot to share the cap
extension code."


Thanks for catching this!

Acked-by: James Morse <james.morse@....com>


Thanks,

James