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authorAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>2010-03-24 21:48:29 +0100
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2010-05-17 12:17:09 +0300
commit71fbfd5f38f73515f1516a68fbe04dba198b70f0 (patch)
tree653626126cef565890652f83f4eba7f376642709 /Documentation/kvm
parentca7f4203b9b66e12d0d9968ff7dfe781f3a9695a (diff)
KVM: Add support for enabling capabilities per-vcpu
Some times we don't want all capabilities to be available to all our vcpus. One example for that is the OSI interface, implemented in the next patch. In order to have a generic mechanism in how to enable capabilities individually, this patch introduces a new ioctl that can be used for this purpose. That way features we don't want in all guests or userspace configurations can just not be enabled and we're good. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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@@ -813,6 +813,41 @@ This ioctl is required on Intel-based hosts. This is needed on Intel hardware
because of a quirk in the virtualization implementation (see the internals
documentation when it pops into existence).
+4.36 KVM_ENABLE_CAP
+
+Capability: KVM_CAP_ENABLE_CAP
+Architectures: ppc
+Type: vcpu ioctl
+Parameters: struct kvm_enable_cap (in)
+Returns: 0 on success; -1 on error
+
++Not all extensions are enabled by default. Using this ioctl the application
+can enable an extension, making it available to the guest.
+
+On systems that do not support this ioctl, it always fails. On systems that
+do support it, it only works for extensions that are supported for enablement.
+
+To check if a capability can be enabled, the KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION ioctl should
+be used.
+
+struct kvm_enable_cap {
+ /* in */
+ __u32 cap;
+
+The capability that is supposed to get enabled.
+
+ __u32 flags;
+
+A bitfield indicating future enhancements. Has to be 0 for now.
+
+ __u64 args[4];
+
+Arguments for enabling a feature. If a feature needs initial values to
+function properly, this is the place to put them.
+
+ __u8 pad[64];
+};
+
5. The kvm_run structure
Application code obtains a pointer to the kvm_run structure by