Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] hyperv: Introduce new way to manage hypercall args

From: Easwar Hariharan
Date: Fri Jul 18 2025 - 16:25:37 EST


On 7/18/2025 10:13 AM, Michael Kelley wrote:
> From: Easwar Hariharan <eahariha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2025 9:33 AM
>>
>> On 7/17/2025 9:55 PM, mhkelley58@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> From: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>
> [snip]
>
>>>
>>> The new code compiles and runs successfully on x86 and arm64. However,
>>> basic smoke tests cover only a limited number of hypercall call sites
>>> that have been modified. I don't have the hardware or Hyper-V
>>> configurations needed to test running in the Hyper-V root partition
>>> or running in a VTL other than VTL 0. The related hypercall call sites
>>> still need to be tested to make sure I didn't break anything. Hopefully
>>> someone with the necessary configurations and Hyper-V versions can
>>> help with that testing.
>
> Easwar --
>
> Thanks for reviewing.
>
> Any chance you (or someone else) could do a quick smoke test of this
> patch set when running in the Hyper-V root partition, and separately,
> when running in VTL2? Some hypercall call sites are modified that
> don't get called in normal VTL0 execution. It just needs a quick
> verification that nothing is obviously broken for the root partition and
> VTL2 cases.
>
> Michael
>

I'm working almost entirely in VTL0, so I'd call on Nuno, Naman, and Roman (cc'ed) to help.

- Easwar