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| author | Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> | 2012-03-29 21:14:12 +0200 |
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| committer | Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> | 2012-04-24 15:59:47 +0300 |
| commit | 07975ad3b30579ca27d880491ad992326b930c63 (patch) | |
| tree | fea166a02c387949a09a948a51781074bdc9ed68 /Documentation/virtual | |
| parent | 1f15d10984c854e077da5aa1a23f901496b49773 (diff) | |
KVM: Introduce direct MSI message injection for in-kernel irqchips
Currently, MSI messages can only be injected to in-kernel irqchips by
defining a corresponding IRQ route for each message. This is not only
unhandy if the MSI messages are generated "on the fly" by user space,
IRQ routes are a limited resource that user space has to manage
carefully.
By providing a direct injection path, we can both avoid using up limited
resources and simplify the necessary steps for user land.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virtual')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 21 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt index 81ff39f6248..a1552210b16 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt @@ -1689,6 +1689,27 @@ where the guest will clear the flag: when the soft lockup watchdog timer resets itself or when a soft lockup is detected. This ioctl can be called any time after pausing the vcpu, but before it is resumed. +4.71 KVM_SIGNAL_MSI + +Capability: KVM_CAP_SIGNAL_MSI +Architectures: x86 +Type: vm ioctl +Parameters: struct kvm_msi (in) +Returns: >0 on delivery, 0 if guest blocked the MSI, and -1 on error + +Directly inject a MSI message. Only valid with in-kernel irqchip that handles +MSI messages. + +struct kvm_msi { + __u32 address_lo; + __u32 address_hi; + __u32 data; + __u32 flags; + __u8 pad[16]; +}; + +No flags are defined so far. The corresponding field must be 0. + 5. The kvm_run structure Application code obtains a pointer to the kvm_run structure by |