[PATCH 03/10] KVM: PPC: reserve a capability and ioctl numbers for realmode VFIO

[Alexander Graf]

On 15.08.2013, at 09:54, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:

> On 08/15/2013 05:43 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> 
>> On 15.08.2013, at 09:42, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>> 
>>> On 08/15/2013 05:25 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 15.08.2013, at 09:24, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 15.08.2013, at 09:22, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 08/15/2013 05:16 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 01.08.2013, at 06:44, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> This is to reserve a capablity number for upcoming support
>>>>>>>> of VFIO-IOMMU DMA operations in real mode.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru>
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>> Changes:
>>>>>>>> 2013/07/16:
>>>>>>>> * changed the number
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 2013/07/11:
>>>>>>>> * changed order in a file, added comment about a gap in ioctl number
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru>
>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>> include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 4 ++++
>>>>>>>> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
>>>>>>>> index 99c2533..53c3f1f 100644
>>>>>>>> --- a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
>>>>>>>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
>>>>>>>> @@ -668,6 +668,7 @@ struct kvm_ppc_smmu_info {
>>>>>>>> #define KVM_CAP_IRQ_XICS 92
>>>>>>>> #define KVM_CAP_ARM_EL1_32BIT 93
>>>>>>>> #define KVM_CAP_SPAPR_MULTITCE 94
>>>>>>>> +#define KVM_CAP_SPAPR_TCE_IOMMU 95
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> #ifdef KVM_CAP_IRQ_ROUTING
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> @@ -933,6 +934,9 @@ struct kvm_s390_ucas_mapping {
>>>>>>>> #define KVM_ARM_SET_DEVICE_ADDR	  _IOW(KVMIO,  0xab, struct kvm_arm_device_addr)
>>>>>>>> /* Available with KVM_CAP_PPC_RTAS */
>>>>>>>> #define KVM_PPC_RTAS_DEFINE_TOKEN _IOW(KVMIO,  0xac, struct kvm_rtas_token_args)
>>>>>>>> +/* 0xad and 0xaf are already taken */
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> so 0xad and 0xaf are already taken? where?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Mistype :( s/af/ae/
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> They are taken in this file:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 1016 /* VM is being stopped by host */
>>>>>> 1017 #define KVM_KVMCLOCK_CTRL         _IO(KVMIO,   0xad)
>>>>>> 1018 #define KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT         _IOW(KVMIO,  0xae, struct kvm_vcpu_init)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Could you please make sure that whoever reads the comment in a year still knows where to look? :)
>>>> 
>>>> Something like
>>>> 
>>>> /* 0xad is taken by KVM_KVMCLOCK_CTRL */
>>>> /* 0xaf is taken by KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT */
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Missed this mail and reposted without this comment but updated commit
>>> message saying where they are used. Repost again?
>> 
>> The commit message doesn't really help, since you don't see that one when you read the header file later. So yes, please.
> 
> 
> Ok. Reposted as "[PATCH v8] KVM: PPC: reserve a capability and ioctl
> numbers for realmode VFIO". Thank you. Sorry for my disturbing ignorance.

In this case it's just sloppyness which disturbs be a lot less, as I'm sloppy myself :).


Alex