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Re: [PATCH RESEND v4 3/3] kvm/powerpc: Export HCALL reason codes

From Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH RESEND v4 3/3] kvm/powerpc: Export HCALL reason codes
Date 2015-06-15 07:50 +0200
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On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 10:26:09AM +0530, Hemant Kumar wrote:
> For perf to analyze the KVM events like hcalls, we need the
> hypervisor calls and their codes to be exported through uapi.

Why?  The hcall codes are defined externally to the kernel (in the
PAPR document) and won't change.  They're not kernel API.

Paul.
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[PATCH RESEND v4 1/3] kvm/powerpc: Export kvm exit reasons Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-06-15 07:00 +0200
  [PATCH RESEND v4 3/3] kvm/powerpc: Export HCALL reason codes Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-06-15 07:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH RESEND v4 3/3] kvm/powerpc: Export HCALL reason codes Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> - 2015-06-15 07:50 +0200
  [PATCH RESEND v4 2/3] kvm/powerpc: Add exit reason for return code 0x0 Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-06-15 07:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH RESEND v4 1/3] kvm/powerpc: Export kvm exit reasons Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> - 2015-06-15 07:50 +0200

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