Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 3/3] KVM - add hypercall nr to kvm_run

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Jeff Dike wrote:
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 09:15:51AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
I'm planning on breaking this interface again since the new hypercall API only takes 4 arguments instead of 6.

Is anything written anywhere about this hypercall interface?

I've posted patches. I'll post more in the near future since we decided to make some rather drastic changes. With the new patchset, guest's will use vmcall directly with a couple bytes of padding. The hypervisor may or may not patch the calling site to use something different (like vmmcall).

The thing which would make me happy (which the current code comes
close to) is for the guest to be able to pass out Linux system calls
with VMCALL.

Within the kernel right (VMCALL is only usable in ring 1). Is it terribly important to be able to pass through the syscall arguments in registers verses packing them in a data structure and passing a pointer to that structure?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

				Jeff


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