From: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@xxxxxxxxx> Adds documentation of KVM_MEMORY_MAPPING ioctl. Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@xxxxxxxxx> --- v19: - newly added --- Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst index 3ec0b7a455a0..667dc58f7d2f 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst @@ -6323,6 +6323,34 @@ a single guest_memfd file, but the bound ranges must not overlap). See KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION2 for additional details. +4.143 KVM_MEMORY_MAPPING +------------------------ + +:Capability: KVM_CAP_MEMORY_MAPPING +:Architectures: none +:Type: vcpu ioctl +:Parameters: struct kvm_memory_mapping(in/out) +:Returns: 0 on success, <0 on error + +KVM_MEMORY_MAPPING populates guest memory without running vcpu. + +:: + + struct kvm_memory_mapping { + __u64 base_gfn; + __u64 nr_pages; + __u64 flags; + __u64 source; + }; + +KVM_MEMORY_MAPPING populates guest memory in the underlying mapping. If source +is not zero and it's supported (it depends on underlying technology), the guest +memory content is populated with the source. If nr_pages is large, it may +return -EAGAIN and the values (base_gfn and nr_pages. source if not zero) are +updated to point the remaining range. + +The "flags" field is reserved for future extensions and must be '0'. + 5. The kvm_run structure ======================== -- 2.25.1