Re: [RFC PATCH v2 20/23] KVM: arm64: Add arch vm ioctl hook

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On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 06:04:22PM +0000, Dave Martin wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 09:32:27AM +0100, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 02:39:24PM +0100, Dave Martin wrote:
> > > To enable arm64-specific vm ioctls to be added cleanly, this patch
> > > adds a kvm_arm_arch_vm_ioctl() hook so that these don't pollute the
> > > common code.
> > 
> > Hmmm, I don't really see the strenght of that argument, and have the
> > same concern as before.  I'd like to avoid the additional indirection
> > and instead just follow the existing pattern with a dummy implementation
> > on the 32-bit side that returns an error.
> 
> So for this and the similar comment on patch 18, this was premature (or
> at least, overzealous) factoring on my part.
> 
> I'm happy to merge this back together for arm and arm64 as you prefer.
> 
> Do we have a nice way of writing the arch check, e.g.
> 
> 	case KVM_ARM_SVE_CONFIG:
> 		if (!IS_ENABLED(ARM64))
> 			return -EINVAL;
> 		else
> 			return kvm_vcpu_sve_config(NULL, userp);
> 
> should work, but looks a bit strange.  Maybe I'm just being fussy.

I prefer just doing:

	case KVM_ARM_SVE_CONFIG:
		return kvm_vcpu_sve_config(NULL, userp);


And having this in arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_foo.h:

static inline int kvm_vcpu_sve_config(...)
{
	return -EINVAL;
}


Thanks,

    Christoffer
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