On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 06:06:04PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: > Glauber Costa wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 05:11:27PM +0900, Avi Kivity wrote: > >> On 10/14/2009 01:06 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote: > >>> Add a new IOCTL pair to retrieve or set the VCPU state in one chunk. > >>> More precisely, the IOCTL is able to process a list of substates to be > >>> read or written. This list is easily extensible without breaking the > >>> existing ABI, thus we will no longer have to add new IOCTLs when we > >>> discover a missing VCPU state field or want to support new hardware > >>> features. > >>> > >>> This patch establishes the generic infrastructure for KVM_GET/ > >>> SET_VCPU_STATE and adds support for the generic substates REGS, SREGS, > >>> FPU, and MP. To avoid code duplication, the entry point for the > >>> corresponding original IOCTLs are converted to make use of the new > >>> infrastructure internally, too. > >>> > >>> > >> One last thing - Documentation/kvm/api.txt needs updating. Glauber, > >> this holds for your patches as well. > > Now looking at it... you do realize that that file is terribly outdated, right? > > At least it's terribly incomplete. I just decided to add my stuff at the > bottom and wait for a bored soul to refactor, fix, extend, whatever this > thing. :) We'll probably clash, then =p. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
