Re: [PATCH v3 4/9] KVM: PPC: Ultravisor: Add generic ultravisor call handler

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Hi Paul,

On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 12:06:32PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> The thing we need to consider is that when SMFCTRL[E] = 0, a ucall
> instruction becomes a hcall (that is, sc 2 is executed as if it was
> sc 1).  In that case, the first argument to the ucall will be
> interpreted as the hcall number.  Mostly that will happen not to be a
> valid hcall number, but sometimes it might unavoidably be a valid but
> unintended hcall number.

Shouldn't a caller of the ultravisor *know* that it is talking to the
ultravisor in the first place?  And not to the hypervisor.


Segher



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