Re: [patch 01/12] [PATCH] kvm-s390: ioctl to switch to user controlled virtual machines

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On 12/08/2011 11:25 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 10:12 +0100, Carsten Otte wrote:
> > plain text document attachment (enable-ucontrol.patch)
> > This patch introduces a new config option for user controlled kernel
> > virtual machines. It introduces an optional parameter to
> > KVM_CREATE_VM in order to create a user controlled virtual machine.
> > The parameter is passed to kvm_arch_init_vm for all architectures.
> > Valid values for the new parameter are KVM_VM_REGULAR (defined to 0
> > for backward compatibility to old KVM_CREATE_VM) and
> > KVM_VM_S390_UCONTROL for s390 only.
>
> Why is it s390 specific? why isn't it KVM_VM_UCONTROL which is currently
> only implemented on s390?

It's not possible (or at least very difficult) to implement ucontrol on
x86.  For example, to update VMCSs you need privileged instructions.  It
might be doable on svm, but there's no point, really.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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