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authorCarsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>2012-01-04 10:25:23 +0100
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2012-03-05 14:52:19 +0200
commit5b1c1493afe8d69909f9df3221bb2fffdf479f4a (patch)
treef64fa2be60cb44e4d9cb7cc9338b4dabba65348a /Documentation/virtual
parente168bf8de33e16a909df2401af1f7d419c5780de (diff)
KVM: s390: ucontrol: export SIE control block to user
This patch exports the s390 SIE hardware control block to userspace via the mapping of the vcpu file descriptor. In order to do so, a new arch callback named kvm_arch_vcpu_fault is introduced for all architectures. It allows to map architecture specific pages. Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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@@ -218,6 +218,11 @@ allocation of vcpu ids. For example, if userspace wants
single-threaded guest vcpus, it should make all vcpu ids be a multiple
of the number of vcpus per vcore.
+For virtual cpus that have been created with S390 user controlled virtual
+machines, the resulting vcpu fd can be memory mapped at page offset
+KVM_S390_SIE_PAGE_OFFSET in order to obtain a memory map of the virtual
+cpu's hardware control block.
+
4.8 KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG (vm ioctl)
Capability: basic