Re: [PATCH v10 2/9] KVM: Introduce per-page memory attributes

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon Dec 19 2022 - 05:17:39 EST


On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 04:15:32PM +0800, Chao Peng wrote:
> Tamping down with error number a bit:
>
> if (attrs->flags)
> return -ENXIO;
> if (attrs->attributes & ~supported_attrs)
> return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> if (!PAGE_ALIGNED(attrs->address) || !PAGE_ALIGNED(attrs->size) ||
> attrs->size == 0)
> return -EINVAL;
> if (attrs->address + attrs->size < attrs->address)
> return -E2BIG;

Yap, better.

I guess you should add those to the documentation of the ioctl too
so that people can find out why it fails. Or, well, they can look
at the code directly too but still... imagine some blurb about
user-friendliness here...

:-)

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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