Re: Re: Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: Check irqchip mode before create PIT

[Paolo Bonzini]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 12:59 AM Sean Christopherson <seanjc@googlecom> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2024, Brilliant Hanabi wrote:
> > Thanks for your review. In my opinion, it is better to avoid potential bugs
> > which is difficult to detect, as long as you can return errors to let
> > developers know about them in advance, although the kernel is not to blame
> > for this bug.
>
> Oh, I completely agree that explict errors are far better.  My only concern is
> that there's a teeny tiny chance that rejecting an ioctl() that used to work
> could break userspace.
>
> Go ahead and send v2.  I'll get Paolo's thoughts on whether or not this is likely
> to break userspace and we can go from there.

I share the same worry but I agree it's quite unlikely.  Let's just do
it, and if someone complains we'll revert it.

Paolo