> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wood Scott-B07421
> Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 2:40 AM
> To: Liu Yu-B13201
> Cc: ag...@suse.de; kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org; k...@vger.kernel.org;
> linuxppc-...@ozlabs.org; Wood Scott-B07421
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] KVM: PPC: epapr: Factor out the epapr init
>
> On 02/10/2012 04:02 AM, Liu Yu wrote:
> > from the kvm guest paravirt init code.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu....@freescale.com>
> > ---
> > v3:
> > apply the epapr init for all ppc platform
> >
> > arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 4 +++
> > arch/powerpc/include/asm/epapr_hcalls.h | 8 +++++
> > arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile | 1 +
> > arch/powerpc/kernel/epapr_para.c | 46
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm.c | 13 +++------
> > arch/powerpc/kvm/Kconfig | 1 +
> > 6 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) create mode 100644
> > arch/powerpc/kernel/epapr_para.c
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig index
> > 47682b6..00bd508 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> > @@ -196,6 +196,10 @@ config EPAPR_BOOT
> > Used to allow a board to specify it wants an ePAPR compliant
> wrapper.
> > default n
> >
> > +config EPAPR_PARA
> > + bool
> > + default n
>
> EPAPR_PARAVIRT
>
> > config DEFAULT_UIMAGE
> > bool
> > help
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/epapr_hcalls.h
> > b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/epapr_hcalls.h
> > index f3b0c2c..c4b86e4 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/epapr_hcalls.h
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/epapr_hcalls.h
> > @@ -148,6 +148,14 @@
> > #define EV_HCALL_CLOBBERS2 EV_HCALL_CLOBBERS3, "r5"
> > #define EV_HCALL_CLOBBERS1 EV_HCALL_CLOBBERS2, "r4"
> >
> > +extern u32 *epapr_hcall_insts;
> > +extern int epapr_hcall_insts_len;
> > +
> > +static inline void epapr_get_hcall_insts(u32 **instp, int *lenp) {
> > + *instp = epapr_hcall_insts;
> > + *lenp = epapr_hcall_insts_len;
> > +}
>
> Why do we need a function for this? Why is the public interface anything
> other than "invoke a hypercall"?
>
> > +static int __init epapr_para_init(void) {
> > + struct device_node *hyper_node;
> > + u32 *insts;
> > + int len;
> > +
> > + hyper_node = of_find_node_by_path("/hypervisor");
> > + if (!hyper_node)
> > + return -ENODEV;
> > +
> > + insts = (u32*)of_get_property(hyper_node, "hcall-instructions",
> > +&len);
>
> Do not cast away that const.
>
> > @@ -535,18 +536,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_hypercall); static int
> > kvm_para_setup(void) {
> > extern u32 kvm_hypercall_start;
> > - struct device_node *hyper_node;
> > u32 *insts;
> > int len, i;
> >
> > - hyper_node = of_find_node_by_path("/hypervisor");
> > - if (!hyper_node)
> > - return -1;
> > -
> > - insts = (u32*)of_get_property(hyper_node, "hcall-instructions",
> &len);
> > - if (len % 4)
> > - return -1;
> > - if (len > (4 * 4))
> > + insts = epapr_hcall_insts;
> > + len = epapr_hcall_insts_len;
> > + if (insts == NULL)
> > return -1;
> >
> > for (i = 0; i < (len / 4); i++)
>
> Why are you still doing the patching inside kvm.c?
>
Do you mean we should move kvm_hypercall_start() into epapr bit?
Thanks,
Yu
