Re: [PATCH 1/3] KVM: Emulation MSI-X mask bits for assigned devices

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 On 09/28/2010 11:44 AM, Sheng Yang wrote:
This patch enable per-vector mask for assigned devices using MSI-X.

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  struct kvm_assigned_msix_entry {
  	__u32 assigned_dev_id;
  	__u32 gsi;
  	__u16 entry; /* The index of entry in the MSI-X table */
-	__u16 padding[3];
+	__u16 flags;
+	__u16 padding[2];
  };


Given that this field wasn't a flag field previously, we can't expect it to be zero. So before we can check it, userspace needs to tell us that is knows the field is not padding, but a flags field.

You can use KVM_ENABLE_CAP for that.

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I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.

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