[PATCH v4 4/4] KVM: Add documentation for KVM_ARM_PREFERRED_TARGET ioctl

Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Wed Sep 25 12:19:23 EDT 2013


On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 05:58:07PM +0530, Anup Patel wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > On 25.09.2013, at 11:26, Anup Patel wrote:
> >
> >> To implement CPU=Host we have added KVM_ARM_PREFERRED_TARGET
> >> vm 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
> >> vm 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 |   27 +++++++++++++++++++++++----
> >> 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
> >> index 858aecf..f31e6e8 100644
> >> --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
> >> +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
> >> @@ -2303,8 +2303,28 @@ 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
> >
> > Why 4.83 and not 4.86? It feels backwards to rename all these other sections.
> 
> I wanted to have KVM_ARM_xxxx IOCTLs located nearby hence
> placed KVM_ARM_PREFERRED_TARGET after KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT.
> 
> There is no point in keeping KVM_ARM_PREFERRED_TARGET
> after KVM_PPC_RTAS_DEFINE_TOKEN and make
> KVM_PPC_RTAS_DEFINE_TOKEN dangle in-between documentation
> of various KVM_ARM_xxxx IOCTLs.
> 
I checked the git log and this is not the first time this has happened,
so I think Anup's point here is valid.

-Christoffer



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