On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 12:21 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 12/22/2011 12:18 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 12:03 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > > On 12/08/2011 07:31 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > It sounds like Alex is considering KVM PPC's return value in this 
> > > > > case (and
> > > > > updating api.txt if appropriate) -- what say you on this patch?  It 
> > > > > actually
> > > > > brings kvmtool's KVM_RUN return val check in line with QEMU's (also 
> > > > > "< 0") and
> > > > > nothing PPC will run without it, currently.  (I'm about to repost a 
> > > > > new series,
> > > > > will include it for these reasons, until I hear more complaint ;) )
> > > >
> > > > '<0' is fine as it's what api.txt says :)
> > > 
> > > What? ioctls return -1 on error, not <0.
> >
> > <0 as opposed to the !=0 check we had there before.
> >
> > Theres no harm in checking for <0 even if the only possible negative
> > result is -1.
> >
> >
> 
> Yes, but the documentation should say -1.  Which ioctl is this?

That was KVM_RUN, but the documentation on that is correct (-1), so I'm
not sure what I was thinking.

On the other hand, there are several ioctls that do need fixing:

 - KVM_IOEVENTFD
 - KVM_PPC_GET_PVINFO
 - KVM_CAP_GET_TSC_KHZ

-- 

Sasha.

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