Re: [PATCH 13/21] KVM: Add support for enabling capabilities per-vcpu

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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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