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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 5/5] Documentation: Add ABI entry for sysfs file vmcsinfo and vmcsinfo_maxsize
On 05/16/2012 10:57 AM, zhangyanfei wrote:
> We create two new sysfs files, vmcsinfo and vmcsinfo_maxsize. And
> here we add an Documentation/ABI entry for them.
>
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-vmcsinfo b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-vmcsinfo
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..adbf866
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-vmcsinfo
> @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
> +What: /sys/kernel/vmcsinfo
> +Date: April 2012
> +KernelVersion: 3.4.0
> +Contact: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
> +Description
> + Shows physical address of VMCSINFO. VMCSINFO contains
> + the VMCS revision identifier and encoded offsets of fields
> + in VMCS data on Intel processors equipped with the VT
> + extensions.
> +
> +What: /sys/kernel/vmcsinfo_maxsize
> +Date: April 2012
> +KernelVersion: 3.4.0
> +Contact: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
> +Description
> + Shows max size of VMCSINFO.
>

This describes the cpu, so maybe /sys/devices/cpu is a better place for
these files.

Would it make sense to expose the actual fields?

that is, have /sys/devices/cpu/vmcs/0806 contain the offset of
GUEST_DS_SELECTOR.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function




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