Re: [PATCH 1/7] KVM: VMX: remove regs argument of __vmx_vcpu_run

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On 10/31/22 18:37, Sean Christopherson wrote:
  	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KVM_INTEL)) {
  		BLANK();
+		OFFSET(VMX_vcpu_arch_regs, vcpu_vmx, vcpu.arch.regs);
Is there an asm-offsets-like solution that doesn't require exposing vcpu_vmx
outside of KVM?  We (Google) want to explore loading multiple instances of KVM,
i.e. loading multiple versions of kvm.ko at the same time, to allow intra-host
migration between versions of KVM to upgrade/rollback KVM without changing the
kernel (RFC coming soon-ish).  IIRC, asm-offsets is the only place where I haven't
been able to figure out a simple way to avoid exposing KVM's internal structures
outside of KVM (so that the structures can change across KVM instances without
breaking kernel code).


It's possible to create our own asm-offsets.h file using something similar to the logic in Kbuild:

#####
# Generate asm-offsets.h

offsets-file := include/generated/asm-offsets.h

always-y += $(offsets-file)
targets += arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/asm-offsets.s

arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/asm-offsets.s: $(timeconst-file) $(bounds-file)

$(offsets-file): arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/asm-offsets.s FORCE
        $(call filechk,offsets,__ASM_OFFSETS_H__)

Paolo




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