Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/6] xen/tasklet: Fix return value truncation on arm64

[Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Andrew,

On 05/12/2019 22:30, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> The use of return_reg() assumes ARM's 32bit ABI.  Therefore, a failure such as
> -EINVAL will appear as a large positive number near 4 billion to a 64bit ARM
> guest which happens to use continue_hypercall_on_cpu().
>
> Introduce a new arch_hypercall_tasklet_result() hook which is implemented by
> both architectures, and drop the return_reg() macros.  This logic will be
> extended in a later change to make continuations out of the tasklet work.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>

Cheers,

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Julien Grall

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