[PATCH 2/7] KVM: arm: guest debug, define API headers
Alex Bennée
alex.bennee at linaro.org
Wed Nov 26 06:58:16 PST 2014
Andrew Jones <drjones at redhat.com> writes:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 04:10:00PM +0000, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> This commit defines the API headers for guest debugging. There are two
>> architecture specific debug structures:
<snip>
>> +/* Architecture related debug defines - upper 16 bits of
>> + * kvm_guest_debug->control
>> + */
>> +#define KVM_GUESTDBG_USE_SW_BP_SHIFT 16
>> +#define KVM_GUESTDBG_USE_SW_BP (1 << KVM_GUESTDBG_USE_SW_BP_SHIFT)
>> +#define KVM_GUESTDBG_USE_HW_BP_SHIFT 17
>> +#define KVM_GUESTDBG_USE_HW_BP (1 << KVM_GUESTDBG_USE_HW_BP_SHIFT)
>> +
>
> I see this are defined in arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h,
> so you needed to reproduce them here, but shouldn't they
> be promoted to include/uapi/linux/kvm.h instead?
Well if we move them to common uapi we either restrict the $ARCH
specific options that don't have SW/HW BKPTS (would be weird but...) or
make them generic in the lower 16 bits (breaks API).
But in principle I have no objection if other don't.
--
Alex Bennée
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