[PATCH 2/4] kvmppc: add hypercall infrastructure - guest part

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Aug 22 20:38:54 EST 2008


On Aug 19, 2008, at 5:36 AM, ehrhardt at linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:

> From: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> 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 <ehrhardt at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>
> [diffstat]
> kvm_para.h |   33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+)
>
> [diff]

Can we make this more generic (naming) and location.  I believe there  
is some interesting in using the same ABI on the Freescale HV so it  
seems like have the wrappers be a bit more generic saves us.

- k



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