On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Alex Bennée <[email protected]> wrote: > > Alexander Graf <[email protected]> writes: > >>> Am 24.11.2014 um 13:32 schrieb Peter Maydell <[email protected]>: >>> >>>> On 24 November 2014 at 12:26, Alexander Graf <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On 24.11.14 12:35, Alex Bennée wrote: >>>>>> * KVM ioctl GET_ONE_REG(ID_AA64DFR0_EL1) >>>>> Nope, guest state API >>>> >>>> What's the problem with using ONE_REG for this? After all, the total >>>> number of available guest debug register is a guest vcpu property of >>>> some sort. >>> >>> Yes, but we don't want to know about properties of the guest >>> vCPU. In an ideal world QEMU could reserve say half the debug >>> registers for debugging the VM on startup and have KVM expose >>> ID registers indicating to the guest that it only had the >>> other half... >> >> Yup, so create another (read-only) ONE_REG that exposes the number of >> actual guest debug registers. > > Does the GET/SET_ONE_REG have the concept of a read-only register? I'd > be worried by code just blindly iterating over the lists getting thrown > when one doesn't work. >
yes, we have invariant cp15 registers. -Christoffer -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
