Re: [16/18]KVM:IA64 : Add kvm sal/pal virtulization support.V9

[Jes Sorensen <jes@xxxxxxx>]

Zhang, Xiantao wrote:
> > From 5c70c038c57190144390ae9d30c3d06afba103d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 14:59:30 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH] KVM:IA64 : Add kvm sal/pal virtulization support.
>
> Some sal/pal calls would be traped to kvm for virtulization
> from guest firmware.
> Signed-off-by: Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/ia64/kvm/kvm_fw.c |  500

Hi Xiantao,

A few more comments:


> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/ia64/kvm/kvm_fw.c

> +static void kvm_get_pal_call_data(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> +		u64 *gr28, u64 *gr29, u64 *gr30, u64 *gr31) {
> +	struct exit_ctl_data *p;
> +
> +	if (vcpu) {
> +		p = &vcpu->arch.exit_data;
> +		if (p->exit_reason == EXIT_REASON_PAL_CALL) {
> +			*gr28 = p->u.pal_data.gr28;
> +			*gr29 = p->u.pal_data.gr29;
> +			*gr30 = p->u.pal_data.gr30;
> +			*gr31 = p->u.pal_data.gr31;
> +			return ;
> +		}
> +	}
> +	printk(KERN_DEBUG"Error occurs in kvm_get_pal_call_data!!\n");

Maybe make this error message a bit more elaborate with information
about what the error is?

> +static void set_sal_result(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> +		struct sal_ret_values result) {
> +	struct exit_ctl_data *p;
> +
> +	p = kvm_get_exit_data(vcpu);
> +	if (p && p->exit_reason == EXIT_REASON_SAL_CALL) {
> +		p->u.sal_data.ret = result;
> +		return ;
> +	}
> +	printk(KERN_WARNING"Error occurs!!!\n");

I love this error message :-) Seriously though, please make it say
where it is and what has been detected.

Cheers,
Jes
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