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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/3] KVM: Expose MSRs to userspace
Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:20:49 +0200
> Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> wrote:
>
>
>>>> +out_vcpu:
>>>> + vcpu_put(vcpu);
>>>> +
>>>> + return rc;
>>>> +}
>>>>
>>>>
>>> This function returns no indication of how many msrs it actually did set.
>>> Should it?
>>>
>>>
>> It can't hurt. Is returning the number of msrs set in the return code
>> (ala short write) acceptable, or do I need to make this a read/write ioctl?
>>
>>
>
> I'd have thought that you'd just copy the number written into msrs->nmsrs via
>
> msrs->nmsrs = num_entries;
>
> like kvm_dev_ioctl_set_msrs() does. Dunno...
>

It means making it an _IOWR() ioctl, but no matter.

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