[PATCH v2 4/4] KVM: Add documentation for KVM_ARM_PREFERRED_TARGET ioctl
Christoffer Dall
christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Tue Sep 17 17:08:29 EDT 2013
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 04:38:37PM +0530, Anup Patel wrote:
> To implement CPU=Host we have added KVM_ARM_PREFERRED_TARGET
> ioctl which provides information to user space required for
> creating VCPU matching underlying Host.
>
> This patch adds info related to this new KVM_ARM_PREFERRED_TARGET
> ioctl in the KVM API documentation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar <pranavkumar at linaro.org>
> ---
> Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
> index ef925ea..85f8026 100644
> --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
> @@ -2303,8 +2303,27 @@ Possible features:
> - KVM_ARM_VCPU_EL1_32BIT: Starts the CPU in a 32bit mode.
> Depends on KVM_CAP_ARM_EL1_32BIT (arm64 only).
>
> +4.83 KVM_ARM_PREFERRED_TARGET
>
> -4.83 KVM_GET_REG_LIST
> +Capability: basic
> +Architectures: arm, arm64
> +Type: vcpu ioctl
> +Parameters: struct struct kvm_vcpu_init (out)
> +Returns: 0 on success; -1 on error
> +Errors:
> + EINVAL: no preferred target available for the host
> +
> +This queries KVM for preferred CPU target type which can be emulated
> +by KVM on underlying host.
> +
> +The ioctl returns struct kvm_vcpu_init instance containing information
> +about preferred CPU target type and optional features available for it.
> +
> +The information returned by this ioctl can be used to prepare instance
> +of struct kvm_vcpu_init for KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT ioctl which will result
> +in VCPU matching underlying host.
nit: you have some trailing white space here
> +
> +4.84 KVM_GET_REG_LIST
>
> Capability: basic
> Architectures: arm, arm64
> @@ -2323,8 +2342,7 @@ struct kvm_reg_list {
> This ioctl returns the guest registers that are supported for the
> KVM_GET_ONE_REG/KVM_SET_ONE_REG calls.
>
> -
> -4.84 KVM_ARM_SET_DEVICE_ADDR
> +4.85 KVM_ARM_SET_DEVICE_ADDR
>
> Capability: KVM_CAP_ARM_SET_DEVICE_ADDR
> Architectures: arm, arm64
> @@ -2362,7 +2380,7 @@ must be called after calling KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP, but before calling
> KVM_RUN on any of the VCPUs. Calling this ioctl twice for any of the
> base addresses will return -EEXIST.
>
> -4.85 KVM_PPC_RTAS_DEFINE_TOKEN
> +4.86 KVM_PPC_RTAS_DEFINE_TOKEN
>
> Capability: KVM_CAP_PPC_RTAS
> Architectures: ppc
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>
--
Christoffer
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