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authorAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>2014-07-14 18:33:08 +0200
committerAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>2014-07-28 15:23:17 +0200
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KVM: Allow KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION on the vm fd
The KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION is only available on the kvm fd today. Unfortunately on PPC some of the capabilities change depending on the way a VM was created. So instead we need a way to expose capabilities as VM ioctl, so that we can see which VM type we're using (HV or PR). To enable this, add the KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION ioctl to our vm ioctl portfolio. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
index 884f819e1908..8898caf8c090 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
@@ -148,9 +148,9 @@ of banks, as set via the KVM_X86_SETUP_MCE ioctl.
4.4 KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION
-Capability: basic
+Capability: basic, KVM_CAP_CHECK_EXTENSION_VM for vm ioctl
Architectures: all
-Type: system ioctl
+Type: system ioctl, vm ioctl
Parameters: extension identifier (KVM_CAP_*)
Returns: 0 if unsupported; 1 (or some other positive integer) if supported
@@ -160,6 +160,9 @@ receives an integer that describes the extension availability.
Generally 0 means no and 1 means yes, but some extensions may report
additional information in the integer return value.
+Based on their initialization different VMs may have different capabilities.
+It is thus encouraged to use the vm ioctl to query for capabilities (available
+with KVM_CAP_CHECK_EXTENSION_VM on the vm fd)
4.5 KVM_GET_VCPU_MMAP_SIZE