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Re: [PATCH] tools/xen-foreign: Update the size for vcpu_guest_{core_regs, context}
- To: Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>
- From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 16:07:40 +0200
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- Cc: Julien Grall <jgrall@xxxxxxxxxx>, Ian Jackson <iwj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Wei Liu <wl@xxxxxxx>, michal.orzel@xxxxxxx, olaf@xxxxxxxxx, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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On 06.07.2021 15:20, Julien Grall wrote:
> From: Julien Grall <jgrall@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Commit 918b8842a852 ("arm64: Change type of hsr, cpsr, spsr_el1 to
> uint64_t") updated the size of the structure vcpu_guest_core_regs and
> indirectly vcpu_guest_context.
>
> On Arm, the two structures are only accessible to the tools and the
> hypervisor (and therefore stable). However, they are still checked
I suppose s/stable/not stable/ and ...
> by the scripts in tools/include/xen-foreign are not able to understand
> that.
>
> Ideally we should rework the scripts so we don't have to update
> the size for non-stable structure. But I don't have limited time
... s/don't/only/ ?
> to spend on the issue. So chose the simple solution and update
> the size accordingly.
>
> Note that we need to keep vcpu_guest_core_regs around because
> the structure is used by vcpu_guest_context and therefore the
> scripts expects the generated header to contain it.
If vcpu_guest_context is also tools-only, why does it need keeping
(for Arm)? IOW can't you drop vcpu_guest_core_regs from the scripts
altogether, and mark vcpu_guest_context with valid sizes for x86
only?
Jan
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