[RFC PATCH 0/3] Target CPU=Host implementation for KVM ARM/ARM64
Anup Patel
anup.patel at linaro.org
Thu Sep 5 10:45:59 EDT 2013
It will be very useful for user space if it has a method for specifying
KVM ARM/ARM64 to give a VCPU with target type suitable to underlying host
but with particular set of features.
In other words, user space might not be interested in having a particular
target type for VCPU but it will certainely want particular set of features
in the VCPU.
The patch tries to implement above described method of specifying VCPU
target CPU=Host from user space by extending the KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT ioctl
and having a dummy target KVM_ARM_TARGET_HOST which means Target CPU
same as (or suitable to) underlying host.
This change in KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT ioctl is backward compatible to its
current semantics hence does not break user space. The only difference
is that it will now update the struct kvm_vcpu_init instance (passed
by user space) with targer type and features of the VCPU that will be
emulated by KVM ARM/ARM64.
Anup Patel (3):
ARM: KVM: Implement target CPU=Host
ARM64: KVM: Implement target CPU=Host
KVM: ARM: Update documentation for KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT ioctl
Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 5 ++++-
arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 +-
arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h | 1 +
arch/arm/kvm/arm.c | 9 ++++++++-
arch/arm/kvm/guest.c | 11 +++++++++--
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 +-
arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h | 2 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c | 10 ++++++++--
8 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
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