Documentation/powerpc: Ultravisor API
Ram Pai
linuxram at us.ibm.com
Fri Jul 31 02:48:42 AEST 2020
On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 12:35:38PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> The file Documentation/powerpc/ultravisor.rst contains:
>
> Only valid value(s) in ``flags`` are:
>
> * H_PAGE_IN_SHARED which indicates that the page is to be shared
> with the Ultravisor.
>
> * H_PAGE_IN_NONSHARED indicates that the UV is not anymore
> interested in the page. Applicable if the page is a shared page.
>
> The flag H_PAGE_IN_SHARED exists in the Linux kernel
> (arch/powerpc/include/asm/hvcall.h), but the flag H_PAGE_IN_NONSHARED does
> not. Should the documentation be changed in some way?
Currently the code assumes H_PAGE_IN_NONSHARED as !H_PAGE_IN_SHARED.
We need to patch the kernel to explicitly define the flag.
I will submit a patch towards this.
Thanks,
RP
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