On 01.04.2010, at 10:51, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 03/24/2010 10:48 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> Documentation/kvm/api.txt | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> include/linux/kvm.h | 12 ++++++++++++
>> 3 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>>
>
> Should really have been generic instead of ppc-specific, but can be moved
> later.
I didn't fully understand your comment about stuff being generic vs arch
specific. But I assumed that since you know this ioctl exists now that whenever
someone needs something similar now, it's easy to add support for it on other
archs.
>
>> @@ -697,6 +707,8 @@ struct kvm_clock_data {
>> /* Available with KVM_CAP_DEBUGREGS */
>> #define KVM_GET_DEBUGREGS _IOR(KVMIO, 0xa1, struct kvm_debugregs)
>> #define KVM_SET_DEBUGREGS _IOW(KVMIO, 0xa2, struct kvm_debugregs)
>> +/* No need for CAP, because then it just always fails */
>> +#define KVM_ENABLE_CAP _IOW(KVMIO, 0xa3, struct kvm_enable_cap)
>>
>
> I dropped this comment while applying.
Thanks.
Alex
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