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Date:   Wed, 6 Jan 2021 15:56:23 +0800
From:   Shuo A Liu <shuo.a.liu@intel.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
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        Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>,
        Zhi Wang <zhi.a.wang@intel.com>,
        Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 06/18] virt: acrn: Introduce VM management interfaces
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On Tue  5.Jan'21 at 15:03:06 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 06:02:51PM +0800, Shuo A Liu wrote:
>> On Tue 15.Dec'20 at 11:00:57 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> > On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 05:52:59PM +0800, Shuo A Liu wrote:
>> > > On Wed  2.Dec'20 at 10:14:29 +0800, Shuo A Liu wrote:
>> > > > On Tue  1.Dec'20 at 11:09:47 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> > > > > On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 05:38:41PM +0800, shuo.a.liu@intel.com wrote:
>> > > > > > +		vm_param->reserved0 = 0;
>> > > > > > +		vm_param->reserved1 = 0;
>> > > > >
>> > > > > NO!
>> > > > >
>> > > > > This means that userspace can put whatever crud they want in those
>> > > > > fields, and you will happily zero it out.  Then, when those reserved
>> > > > > fields are wanted to be used in the future, you will take those values
>> > > > > from userspace and accept them as a valid value.  But, since userspace
>> > > > > was sending crud before, now you will take that crud and do something
>> > > > > with it.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > TEST IT to verify that it is zero, that way userspace gets it right the
>> > > > > first time, and you don't get it wrong later, as you can not change it
>> > > > > later.
>> > > >
>> > > > OK. Thanks for the elaboration. I will test it and return -EINVAL if
>> > > > it is not zero.
>> > > >
>> > >
>> > > Hi Greg,
>> > >
>> > > Would you like to review other patches in this series on this version?
>> >
>> > Nope, it's the middle of the merge window, I can't do anything with any
>> > new patches until after 5.11-rc1 is out.  So I suggest you fix up the
>> > current issues and send a new patch series once 5.11-rc1 is released.
>>
>> Got it, thanks!
>
>Did this ever happen?  I don't see a new series anywhere, do you have a
>lore.kernel.org link?

Just back to work. :)

Sent new series already. The link is
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210106075055.47226-1-shuo.a.liu@intel.com/

Thanks
shuo