Re: [PATCH v6 06/18] virt: acrn: Introduce VM management interfaces
From: Shuo A Liu
Date: Wed Jan 06 2021 - 02:57:33 EST
On Tue 5.Jan'21 at 15:03:06 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 06:02:51PM +0800, Shuo A Liu wrote:
On Tue 15.Dec'20 at 11:00:57 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 05:52:59PM +0800, Shuo A Liu wrote:
> > On Wed 2.Dec'20 at 10:14:29 +0800, Shuo A Liu wrote:
> > > On Tue 1.Dec'20 at 11:09:47 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 05:38:41PM +0800, shuo.a.liu@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > > > + vm_param->reserved0 = 0;
> > > > > + vm_param->reserved1 = 0;
> > > >
> > > > NO!
> > > >
> > > > This means that userspace can put whatever crud they want in those
> > > > fields, and you will happily zero it out. Then, when those reserved
> > > > fields are wanted to be used in the future, you will take those values
> > > > from userspace and accept them as a valid value. But, since userspace
> > > > was sending crud before, now you will take that crud and do something
> > > > with it.
> > > >
> > > > TEST IT to verify that it is zero, that way userspace gets it right the
> > > > first time, and you don't get it wrong later, as you can not change it
> > > > later.
> > >
> > > OK. Thanks for the elaboration. I will test it and return -EINVAL if
> > > it is not zero.
> > >
> >
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > Would you like to review other patches in this series on this version?
>
> Nope, it's the middle of the merge window, I can't do anything with any
> new patches until after 5.11-rc1 is out. So I suggest you fix up the
> current issues and send a new patch series once 5.11-rc1 is released.
Got it, thanks!
Did this ever happen? I don't see a new series anywhere, do you have a
lore.kernel.org link?
Just back to work. :)
Sent new series already. The link is
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210106075055.47226-1-shuo.a.liu@xxxxxxxxx/
Thanks
shuo