Re: [PATCH v5 2/8] arm64: hyperv: Add hypercall and register access functions

[Marc Zyngier]

On 2019-10-03 20:12, Michael Kelley wrote:
> Add ARM64-specific code to make Hyper-V hypercalls and to
> access virtual processor synthetic registers via hypercalls.
> Hypercalls use a Hyper-V specific calling sequence with a non-zero
> immediate value per Section 2.9 of the SMC Calling Convention
> spec.

I find this "following the spec by actively sidestepping it" counter
productive. You (or rather the Hyper-V people) are reinventing the
wheel (of the slightly square variety) instead of using the standard
that the whole of the ARM ecosystem seems happy to take advantage
of.

I wonder what is the rational for this. If something doesn't quite
work for Hyper-V, I think we'd all like to know.

Thanks,

        M.
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