Re: [PATCH v10 2/9] KVM: Introduce per-page memory attributes

[Chao Peng]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 11:17:22AM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 04:15:32PM +0800, Chao Peng wrote:
> > Tamping down with error number a bit:
> > 
> >         if (attrs->flags)
> >                 return -ENXIO;
> >         if (attrs->attributes & ~supported_attrs)
> >                 return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> >         if (!PAGE_ALIGNED(attrs->address) || !PAGE_ALIGNED(attrs->size) ||
> >             attrs->size == 0)
> >                 return -EINVAL;
> >         if (attrs->address + attrs->size < attrs->address)
> >                 return -E2BIG;
> 
> Yap, better.
> 
> I guess you should add those to the documentation of the ioctl too
> so that people can find out why it fails. Or, well, they can look
> at the code directly too but still... imagine some blurb about
> user-friendliness here...

Thanks for reminding. Yes KVM api doc is the right place to put these
documentation in.

Thanks,
Chao
> 
> :-)
> 
> -- 
> Regards/Gruss,
>     Boris.
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