On 02.08.2012, at 09:08, Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 08/01/2012 11:55 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 04:19:01PM +0530, Raghavendra K T wrote: >>> On 08/01/2012 08:37 AM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: >>>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 02:23:59PM +0530, Raghavendra K T wrote: >>>>> From: Raghavendra K T<raghavendra.kt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>>>> >>>>> Thanks Alex for KVM_HC_FEATURES inputs and Jan for VAPIC_POLL_IRQ, >>>>> and Peter (HPA) for suggesting hypercall ABI addition. >>>>> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T<raghavendra.kt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>>>> --- > [...] >>>>> + >>>>> + Up to four arguments may be passed in rbx, rcx, rdx, and rsi respectively. >>>>> + The hypercall number should be placed in rax and the return value will be >>>>> + placed in rax. No other registers will be clobbered unless explicitly stated >>>>> + by the particular hypercall. >>>> >>>> It depends on the hypercall. It happens that current hypercalls use >>>> the four registers, but its not an ABI (hyper-v hypercalls uses r8, for example). >>>> >>> >>> Okay, agree. I did not know about hyper-v. Above one is for X86 and >>> KVM (and not X86 / hyper-v). So I should remove ABI and probably say, >> >> Just say "Linux x86 Hypercall", yeah. >> > > Ok, Thanks Marcelo.will respin patches with the changes you suggested. > > Also I would like add Alex's description on ppc hypercalls > into Documentation/virtual/kvm/ppc-pv.txt with Alex from/sob or > suggested-by in a separate patch unless I see any objection to that. > Yeah, don't stall this on me :) Alex-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
