On 01/09/2012 02:11 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: > > > Am 09.01.2012 um 20:07 schrieb Scott Wood <scottw...@freescale.com>: > >> On 01/06/2012 06:52 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 06.01.2012, at 20:32, Scott Wood <scottw...@freescale.com> wrote: >>> >>>> On 01/05/2012 10:15 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: >>>> >>>>> +/* >>>>> + * Architecture specific registers are to be defined in arch headers and >>>>> + * ORed with the arch identifier. >>>>> + */ >>>>> +#define KVM_REG_PPC 0x1000000000000000ULL >>>>> +#define KVM_REG_X86 0x2000000000000000ULL >>>>> +#define KVM_REG_IA64 0x3000000000000000ULL >>>>> +#define KVM_REG_ARM 0x4000000000000000ULL >>>>> +#define KVM_REG_S390 0x5000000000000000ULL >>>>> + >>>>> +#define KVM_REG_SIZE_SHIFT 52 >>>>> +#define KVM_REG_SIZE_MASK 0x00f0000000000000ULL >>>>> +#define KVM_REG_SIZE_U8 0x0000000000000000ULL >>>>> +#define KVM_REG_SIZE_U16 0x0010000000000000ULL >>>>> +#define KVM_REG_SIZE_U32 0x0020000000000000ULL >>>>> +#define KVM_REG_SIZE_U64 0x0030000000000000ULL >>>>> +#define KVM_REG_SIZE_U128 0x0040000000000000ULL >>>>> +#define KVM_REG_SIZE_U256 0x0050000000000000ULL >>>>> +#define KVM_REG_SIZE_U512 0x0060000000000000ULL >>>>> +#define KVM_REG_SIZE_U1024 0x0070000000000000ULL >>>> >>>> Why not just encode directly as number of bytes? >>> >>> Because this is 1 << n bytes :) >> >> Some registers may not be a power-of-2 number of bytes (e.g. x86 segment >> descriptors), and we've got plenty of space to spare in the id. > > If they're not a power of 2, we can still bmp it to the next power of 2 size, > no?
Yes, that's what I meant by it not being a huge deal and documenting whether the padding is on the right or the left. Just seems a little more awkward than necessary, given that we have room to encode it as a plain linear size. -Scott -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
