On 10/16/2012 10:03 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
This forces userspace to dedicate a thread for the HPT.
If no changes are available, does read return a size 0? I don't think
it's necessary to support polling. The kernel should always be able to
respond to userspace here. The only catch
On 10/16/2012 11:52 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote:
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 03:06:33PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 10/16/2012 01:58 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote:
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:06:58PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
Does/should the fd support O_NONBLOCK and poll? (=waiting for an entry
to
On 10/16/2012 06:01 AM, Paul Mackerras wrote:
A new ioctl, KVM_PPC_GET_HTAB_FD, returns a file descriptor. Reads on
this fd return the contents of the HPT (hashed page table), writes
create and/or remove entries in the HPT. There is a new capability,
KVM_CAP_PPC_HTAB_FD, to indicate the
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:06:58PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 10/16/2012 06:01 AM, Paul Mackerras wrote:
+4.78 KVM_PPC_GET_HTAB_FD
+
+Capability: KVM_CAP_PPC_HTAB_FD
+Architectures: powerpc
+Type: vm ioctl
+Parameters: Pointer to struct kvm_get_htab_fd (in)
+Returns: file
On 10/16/2012 01:58 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote:
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:06:58PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 10/16/2012 06:01 AM, Paul Mackerras wrote:
+4.78 KVM_PPC_GET_HTAB_FD
+
+Capability: KVM_CAP_PPC_HTAB_FD
+Architectures: powerpc
+Type: vm ioctl
+Parameters: Pointer to struct
Avi Kivity a...@redhat.com writes:
On 10/16/2012 01:58 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote:
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:06:58PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 10/16/2012 06:01 AM, Paul Mackerras wrote:
+4.78 KVM_PPC_GET_HTAB_FD
+
+Capability: KVM_CAP_PPC_HTAB_FD
+Architectures: powerpc
+Type: vm
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 03:06:33PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 10/16/2012 01:58 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote:
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:06:58PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
Does/should the fd support O_NONBLOCK and poll? (=waiting for an entry
to change).
No.
This forces userspace to
A new ioctl, KVM_PPC_GET_HTAB_FD, returns a file descriptor. Reads on
this fd return the contents of the HPT (hashed page table), writes
create and/or remove entries in the HPT. There is a new capability,
KVM_CAP_PPC_HTAB_FD, to indicate the presence of the ioctl. The ioctl
takes an argument
