[RFC PATCH 3/3] KVM: ARM: Update documentation for KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT ioctl

Claudio Fontana claudio.fontana at huawei.com
Fri Sep 6 04:05:11 EDT 2013


Hi Anup,

I am no native English speaker, but this is my attempt at improving the descriptions:

On 05.09.2013 16:46, Anup Patel wrote:
> To implement target type KVM_ARM_TARGET_HOST we make the
> KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT ioctl bi-direction so that KVM ARM/ARM64
> can return appropriate target type to user space via
> struct kvm_vcpu_init.

If I understood correctly:

To implement target type KVM_ARM_TARGET_HOST we change
the "struct kvm_cpu_init" input parameter into an in/out
parameter, so that KVM ARM/ARM64 can inform user space about
the chosen target type.

> Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar <pranavkumar at linaro.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt |    5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
> index ef925ea..c0a3a05 100644
> --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
> @@ -2283,7 +2283,7 @@ current state.  "addr" is ignored.
>  Capability: basic
>  Architectures: arm, arm64
>  Type: vcpu ioctl
> -Parameters: struct struct kvm_vcpu_init (in)
> +Parameters: struct kvm_vcpu_init (in/out)
>  Returns: 0 on success; -1 on error
>  Errors:
>    EINVAL:    the target is unknown, or the combination of features is invalid.
> @@ -2303,6 +2303,9 @@ Possible features:
>  	- KVM_ARM_VCPU_EL1_32BIT: Starts the CPU in a 32bit mode.
>  	  Depends on KVM_CAP_ARM_EL1_32BIT (arm64 only).
>  
> +This ioctl returns updated struct kvm_vcpu_init showing VCPU target 
> +type and VCPU features that will be available.
> +

This ioctl returns an updated struct kvm_vcpu_init informing about the
chosen VCPU target type and available VCPU features.

>  
>  4.83 KVM_GET_REG_LIST
>  
> 

Ciao,

Claudio





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