Avi wrote:
There is an alternative, if you can recognize this condition exactly from the hardware fault, you can fault the lowcore yourself and retry. This eliminates a user interface. Is this workable?
I've read your comment again, and understood it this time. Trouble is that the kernel cannot handle the situation either: userspace may need to malloc some memory and call KVM_S390_UCAS_MAP prior to resolving it. One could avoid the user interface by partially handling it in-kernel and partially handling it in userspace without handshaking: - user calls KVM_RUN - SIE validity intercept - kernel tries to gmap_fault and recognizes -EFAULT - kernel returns validity intercept to user - user does KVM_S390_UCAS_MAP - user calls KVM_RUN - SIE validity intercept - kernel tries to gmap_fault and succeeds - SIE runs ok
I guess I prefer to do processing of one operation in one place, and thus I prefer the user interface over this. But yes, it'd be workable without this interface. Is this what you want? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
