kvm_mips_build_ret_to_host(9)

💅 NAME 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the kvm_mips_build_ret_to_host page from the Kernel API Manual — yes, it's a whole manual page and yes, it's giving "niche MIPS KVM lore" 💖

short version: it assembles the code that takes you back to the host. slay.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void * kvm_mips_build_ret_to_host (void *addr );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• addr — the address where you wanna start writing code. that's it. that's the whole argument. iconic.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically, this function assembles the code that handles the return trip from the guest exit handler — that's kvm_mips_handle_exit — back to the host. aka back to the caller of the vcpu_run function that got generated by kvm_mips_build_vcpu_run. it's the "okay we're done here, take me home" machinery, lowkey essential 🫶

no cap, that's the whole vibe: you're building the exit-to-host path, one assembly chunk at a time.

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🔥 RETURN 🔥

it returns the next address after the end of the written function — so you know exactly where the freshly assembled code stops. very "here's where I left off, bestie" of it 💅

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./arch/mips/kvm/entry.c
• kvm_mips_entry_setup(9)
• build_set_exc_base(9)
• kvm_mips_build_vcpu_run(9)
• kvm_mips_build_enter_guest(9)
• kvm_mips_build_tlb_refill_exception(9)
• kvm_mips_build_exception(9)
• kvm_mips_build_exit(9)
• kvm_mips_build_ret_from_exit(9)
• kvm_mips_build_ret_to_guest(9)

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and that's the page, bestie 🎀 it's from ./arch/mips/kvm, dated October 2026, in the Kernel API Manual — go forth and assemble your return path, you got this 💜✨