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Jon Doron af510d6fd6 x86/kvm/hyper-v: Explicitly align hcall param for kvm_hyperv_exit
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The problem the patch is trying to address is the fact that 'struct
kvm_hyperv_exit' has different layout on when compiling in 32 and 64 bit
modes.

In 64-bit mode the default alignment boundary is 64 bits thus
forcing extra gaps after 'type' and 'msr' but in 32-bit mode the
boundary is at 32 bits thus no extra gaps.

This is an issue as even when the kernel is 64 bit, the userspace using
the interface can be both 32 and 64 bit but the same 32 bit userspace has
to work with 32 bit kernel.

The issue is fixed by forcing the 64 bit layout, this leads to ABI
change for 32 bit builds and while we are obviously breaking '32 bit
userspace with 32 bit kernel' case, we're fixing the '32 bit userspace
with 64 bit kernel' one.

As the interface has no (known) users and 32 bit KVM is rather baroque
nowadays, this seems like a reasonable decision.

Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Doron <arilou@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20200424113746.3473563-2-arilou@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Roman Kagan <rvkagan@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2020-06-22 09:30:57 +02:00
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asm-generic mm: introduce MADV_PAGEOUT 2019-09-25 17:51:41 -07:00
drm drm/amdgpu: return tcc_disabled_mask to userspace 2019-10-02 12:58:33 -05:00
linux x86/kvm/hyper-v: Explicitly align hcall param for kvm_hyperv_exit 2020-06-22 09:30:57 +02:00
misc habanalabs: stop using the acronym KMD 2019-09-05 14:55:27 +03:00
mtd mtd: abi: do not use C++ style comments in uapi header 2019-07-07 20:31:29 +02:00
rdma rdma: Remove nes ABI header 2020-01-17 19:48:39 +01:00
scsi scsi: use __u{8,16,32,64} instead of uint{8,16,32,64}_t in uapi headers 2019-08-12 22:19:27 -04:00
sound Merge branch 'asoc-5.4' into asoc-next 2019-09-09 14:55:20 +01:00
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Kbuild kbuild: re-implement Makefile.headersinst without recursion 2019-06-15 19:57:02 +09:00