[PATCH] PPC: Sync guest visible MMU state

[Alexander Graf]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 11/26/2009 01:16 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> Currently userspace has no chance to find out which virtual address
>> space we're
>> in and resolve addresses. While that is a big problem for migration,
>> it's also
>> unpleasent when debugging, as gdb and the monitor don't work on virtual
>> addresses.
>>
>> This patch exports enough of the MMU segment state to userspace to make
>> debugging work and thus also includes the groundwork for migration.
>>
>>
>>   struct kvm_sregs {
>> -    __u32 pvr;
>> -    char pad[1020];
>> +    union {
>> +        struct {
>> +            __u32 pvr;
>> +            __u64 sdr1;
>> +            struct {
>> +                struct {
>> +                    __u64 slbe;
>> +                    __u64 slbv;
>> +                } slb[64];
>> +            } ppc64;
>> +            struct {
>> +                __u32 sr[16];
>> +                __u64 ibat[8];
>> +                __u64 dbat[8];
>> +            } ppc32;
>> +        };
>> +        __u8 pad[1024];
>> +    };
>>   };
>>    
>
> Please avoid unnamed unions in user-visible headers - they're a gcc
> extension.
>
> Yes, we have them elsewhere, but let's not add to the pile.

I'm open to scalable suggestions that don't break existing userspace code.
If I name the union now, existing qemu code will break. If I align the
pad array manually I'll definitely mess up something.

Alex