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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] s390/kvm: Handle hosts not supporting s390-
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Cornelia Huck |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] s390/kvm: Handle hosts not supporting s390-virtio. |
Date: |
Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:45:00 +0200 |
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 01:09:15 +0200
Alexander Graf <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 07.08.2012, at 16:52, Cornelia Huck wrote:
>
> > Running under a kvm host does not necessarily imply the presence of
> > a page mapped above the main memory with the virtio information;
> > however, the code includes a hard coded access to that page.
> >
> > Instead, check for the presence of the page and exit gracefully
> > before we hit an addressing exception if it does not exist.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <address@hidden>
> > ---
> > drivers/s390/kvm/kvm_virtio.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/s390/kvm/kvm_virtio.c b/drivers/s390/kvm/kvm_virtio.c
> > index 47cccd5..408447c 100644
> > --- a/drivers/s390/kvm/kvm_virtio.c
> > +++ b/drivers/s390/kvm/kvm_virtio.c
> > @@ -418,6 +418,21 @@ static void kvm_extint_handler(struct ext_code
> > ext_code,
> > }
> > }
> >
> > +static int __init test_devices_support(void)
>
> Today we know what this function does, but the next person running into it
> has no clue. Maybe add a nice description here that you're trying to access
> memory above ram? (is this even what you're doing here? my s390 asm is
> slightly rusty) :)
Good point, will add a comment.
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] s390/kvm: Split out early console code., Cornelia Huck, 2012/08/07
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] s390/kvm: Add a channel I/O based virtio transport driver., Cornelia Huck, 2012/08/07
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] s390/kvm: Add a channel I/O based virtio transport driver., Anthony Liguori, 2012/08/14