Re: [PATCH v6 13/21] gunyah: vm_mgr: Introduce basic VM Manager

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On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 11:45:12AM -0700, Elliot Berman wrote:
> +Michael
> 
> On 11/1/2022 10:14 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 11:58:38AM -0700, Elliot Berman wrote:
> > > +#define GH_CREATE_VM			_IO(GH_IOCTL_TYPE, 0x40) /* Returns a Gunyah VM fd */
> > 
> > Why 0x40?  Why not just use the same KVM ioctl numbers and names as you
> > are doing the same thing as them, right?
> 
> We've designed so that there are a few ioctls that will feel similar to KVM
> ioctls since we know this design has been successful, but we don't intend to
> support KVM ioctls 1:1. Gunyah has different semantics for many of the
> name-identical ioctls. It seems odd to mix some re-used KVM ioctls with
> novel Gunyah ioctls?

Even if you don't support it 1:1, at least for the ones that are the
same thing, pick the same numbers as that's a nicer thing to do, right?

> > Normally your first ioctl is "0x01", not "0x40", so this feels really
> > odd.
> > 
> 
> Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/iocl-number.rst advises to pick an unused
> block. We picked ioctl code 'G' and unused sequence numbers under that code.
> I'm ok to move the block around.

How do you know you picked an unused block?  It wasn't obvious where you
got these values from at all, and unfortunatly, no one really ever
updates that documentation file.  Luckily it never really matters.

thanks,

greg k-h



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