Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] kvmppc: add hypercall infrastructure - guest part

From: Christian Ehrhardt <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:56:39 +0200

Tony Breeds wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:36:44AM +0200, [email-masked] wrote:
>   
>> From: Christian Ehrhardt <[email-masked]>
>>     
>
> Hi Christian,
>   
>> This adds the guest portion of the hypercall infrastructure, basically an
>> illegal instruction with a defined layout.
>> See http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/PowerPC_Hypercall_ABI for more detail
>> on the hypercall ABI for powerpc.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <[email-masked]>
>> ---
>>
>> [diffstat]
>>  kvm_para.h |   16 ++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
>>
>> [diff]
>> diff --git a/include/asm-powerpc/kvm_para.h b/include/asm-powerpc/kvm_para.h
>> --- a/include/asm-powerpc/kvm_para.h
>> +++ b/include/asm-powerpc/kvm_para.h
>> @@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
>>  #ifdef __KERNEL__
>>  
>>  #include <linux/of.h>
>> +
>> +#define KVM_HYPERCALL_BIN 0x03ffffff
>>     
>
> Ummm didn't you add this in patch 2 of 6?
>   
This is just because I initially wanted to split Host & Guest patch series.
I need to separate my patches a bit more anyway for the next submission 
thanks for pointing out this duplication.

> Yours Tony
>
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Grüsse / regards, 
Christian Ehrhardt
IBM Linux Technology Center, Open Virtualization