Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/10] KVM: define common __KVM_GUESTDBG_USE_SW/HW_BP values

From: Christoffer Dall <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 13:55:35 +0200

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 04:08:00PM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
> Currently x86, powerpc and soon arm64 use the same two architecture
> specific bits for guest debug support for software and hardware
> breakpoints. This makes the shared values explicit while leaving the
> gate open for another architecture to use some other value if they
> really really want to.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <[email-masked]>
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h b/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
> index ab4d473..1731569 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
> @@ -310,8 +310,8 @@ struct kvm_guest_debug_arch {
>   * and upper 16 bits are architecture specific. Architecture specific defines
>   * that ioctl is for setting hardware breakpoint or software breakpoint.
>   */
> -#define KVM_GUESTDBG_USE_SW_BP		0x00010000
> -#define KVM_GUESTDBG_USE_HW_BP		0x00020000
> +#define KVM_GUESTDBG_USE_SW_BP		__KVM_GUESTDBG_USE_SW_BP
> +#define KVM_GUESTDBG_USE_HW_BP		__KVM_GUESTDBG_USE_HW_BP
>  
>  /* definition of registers in kvm_run */
>  struct kvm_sync_regs {
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
> index d7dcef5..1438202 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
> @@ -250,8 +250,8 @@ struct kvm_debug_exit_arch {
>  	__u64 dr7;
>  };
>  
> -#define KVM_GUESTDBG_USE_SW_BP		0x00010000
> -#define KVM_GUESTDBG_USE_HW_BP		0x00020000
> +#define KVM_GUESTDBG_USE_SW_BP		__KVM_GUESTDBG_USE_SW_BP
> +#define KVM_GUESTDBG_USE_HW_BP		__KVM_GUESTDBG_USE_HW_BP
>  #define KVM_GUESTDBG_INJECT_DB		0x00040000
>  #define KVM_GUESTDBG_INJECT_BP		0x00080000
>  
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
> index 5eedf84..ce2db14 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
> @@ -525,8 +525,16 @@ struct kvm_s390_irq {
>  
>  /* for KVM_SET_GUEST_DEBUG */
>  
> -#define KVM_GUESTDBG_ENABLE		0x00000001
> -#define KVM_GUESTDBG_SINGLESTEP		0x00000002
> +#define KVM_GUESTDBG_ENABLE		(1 << 0)
> +#define KVM_GUESTDBG_SINGLESTEP	(1 << 1)
> +
> +/*
> + * Architecture specific stuff uses the top 16 bits of the field,

can you be more specific than 'stuff' here?  features?

> + * however there is some shared commonality for the common cases

I don't like this sentence; shared commonality is a pleonasm and the use
of however makes it sounds like there's some caveat here.

If the top 16 bits are indeed arhictecture specific, then I think they
should just be defined in their architecture specific headers.  Unless
the idea here is that there's a fixed set of of flags that architectures
can choose to support, in which case it should simply be defined in the
common header.

> + */
> +#define __KVM_GUESTDBG_USE_SW_BP	(1 << 16)
> +#define __KVM_GUESTDBG_USE_HW_BP	(1 << 17)
> +
>  
>  struct kvm_guest_debug {
>  	__u32 control;
> -- 
> 2.3.4
>