From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030202AbXCVHtw (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:49:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030234AbXCVHtw (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:49:52 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:35894 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030228AbXCVHtv (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:49:51 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] make KVM conform to sucky rdmsr interface From: Rusty Russell To: Avi Kivity Cc: Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , lkml - Kernel Mailing List , kvm-devel , Jeremy Fitzhardinge In-Reply-To: <46022E40.8080300@qumranet.com> References: <1174531917.2713.91.camel@localhost.localdomain> <46022E40.8080300@qumranet.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:49:30 +1100 Message-Id: <1174549770.2713.121.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 09:20 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > My rdmsr_safe (x86_64, i386 is similar/same) is Erk. Andrew, please drop that patch, and take this one. It was actually Jeremy's paravirt cleanup patch which changed the calling convention of rdmsr_safe() to match rdmsr(). I went "oh it's that fucking rdmsr interface" and "fixed" kvm. Sorry for the bad patch, Rusty. == rdmsr_safe() takes pointers. rdmsr() modifies its arguments. What a mess. Fix rdmsr_safe() with !CONFIG_PARAVIRT. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell diff -r a7f78e8eacc8 include/asm-i386/msr.h --- a/include/asm-i386/msr.h Thu Mar 22 12:38:35 2007 +1100 +++ b/include/asm-i386/msr.h Thu Mar 22 18:40:35 2007 +1100 @@ -96,12 +96,12 @@ static inline void wrmsrl (unsigned long (native_write_msr(msr, ((unsigned long long)val2 << 32) | val1)) /* rdmsr with exception handling */ -#define rdmsr_safe(msr,val1,val2) \ +#define rdmsr_safe(msr,p1,p2) \ ({ \ int __err; \ - unsigned long long __val = native_read_msr(msr, &__err); \ - val1 = __val; \ - val2 = __val >> 32; \ + unsigned long long __val = native_read_msr(msr, &__err);\ + (*p1) = __val; \ + (*p2) = __val >> 32; \ __err; \ })