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| author | Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> | 2013-04-17 20:30:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> | 2013-04-26 20:27:29 +0200 |
| commit | 8e591cb7204739efa8e15967ea334eb367039dde (patch) | |
| tree | 3fa76d3875c8133eeafc2e36372aaf83232fc54f /Documentation/virtual | |
| parent | 91194919a6b07d70081fe185a79b129efee84fff (diff) | |
| download | linux-8e591cb7204739efa8e15967ea334eb367039dde.tar.bz2 | |
KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add infrastructure to implement kernel-side RTAS calls
For pseries machine emulation, in order to move the interrupt
controller code to the kernel, we need to intercept some RTAS
calls in the kernel itself. This adds an infrastructure to allow
in-kernel handlers to be registered for RTAS services by name.
A new ioctl, KVM_PPC_RTAS_DEFINE_TOKEN, then allows userspace to
associate token values with those service names. Then, when the
guest requests an RTAS service with one of those token values, it
will be handled by the relevant in-kernel handler rather than being
passed up to userspace as at present.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
[agraf: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virtual')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 19 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt index 149558b1e81e..fb308be8521b 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt @@ -2341,6 +2341,25 @@ and distributor interface, the ioctl must be called after calling KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP, but before calling KVM_RUN on any of the VCPUs. Calling this ioctl twice for any of the base addresses will return -EEXIST. +4.82 KVM_PPC_RTAS_DEFINE_TOKEN + +Capability: KVM_CAP_PPC_RTAS +Architectures: ppc +Type: vm ioctl +Parameters: struct kvm_rtas_token_args +Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error + +Defines a token value for a RTAS (Run Time Abstraction Services) +service in order to allow it to be handled in the kernel. The +argument struct gives the name of the service, which must be the name +of a service that has a kernel-side implementation. If the token +value is non-zero, it will be associated with that service, and +subsequent RTAS calls by the guest specifying that token will be +handled by the kernel. If the token value is 0, then any token +associated with the service will be forgotten, and subsequent RTAS +calls by the guest for that service will be passed to userspace to be +handled. + 5. The kvm_run structure ------------------------ |