Re: [PATCH 2/5] X86: Hyper-V: Enable IPI enlightenments

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Thu Apr 26 2018 - 17:32:52 EST


On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 11:12:47AM -0700, kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> +/*
> + * IPI implementation on Hyper-V.
> + */
> +
> +static int __send_ipi_mask(const struct cpumask *mask, int vector)
> +{
> + int cur_cpu, vcpu;
> + struct ipi_arg_non_ex **arg;
> + struct ipi_arg_non_ex *ipi_arg;
> + int ret = 1;

Not specifically related to this patch, but hv code sometimes returns 1
on error or U64_MAX. It's slightly magical. Maybe
HV_STATUS_INVALID_HYPERCALL_INPUT (3) would be more appropriate? Or we
could make a new more generic error code:

#define HV_STATUS_INVALID 1

regards,
dan carpenter