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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virtual')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 172 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt | 34 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/nested-vmx.txt | 251 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/ppc-pv.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/lguest/lguest.c | 47 |
6 files changed, 488 insertions, 42 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt index 42542eb802c..b0e4b9cd6a6 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt @@ -180,6 +180,19 @@ KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION ioctl() to determine the value for max_vcpus at run-time. If the KVM_CAP_NR_VCPUS does not exist, you should assume that max_vcpus is 4 cpus max. +On powerpc using book3s_hv mode, the vcpus are mapped onto virtual +threads in one or more virtual CPU cores. (This is because the +hardware requires all the hardware threads in a CPU core to be in the +same partition.) The KVM_CAP_PPC_SMT capability indicates the number +of vcpus per virtual core (vcore). The vcore id is obtained by +dividing the vcpu id by the number of vcpus per vcore. The vcpus in a +given vcore will always be in the same physical core as each other +(though that might be a different physical core from time to time). +Userspace can control the threading (SMT) mode of the guest by its +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. + 4.8 KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG (vm ioctl) Capability: basic @@ -1143,15 +1156,10 @@ Assigns an IRQ to a passed-through device. struct kvm_assigned_irq { __u32 assigned_dev_id; - __u32 host_irq; + __u32 host_irq; /* ignored (legacy field) */ __u32 guest_irq; __u32 flags; union { - struct { - __u32 addr_lo; - __u32 addr_hi; - __u32 data; - } guest_msi; __u32 reserved[12]; }; }; @@ -1239,8 +1247,10 @@ Type: vm ioctl Parameters: struct kvm_assigned_msix_nr (in) Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error -Set the number of MSI-X interrupts for an assigned device. This service can -only be called once in the lifetime of an assigned device. +Set the number of MSI-X interrupts for an assigned device. The number is +reset again by terminating the MSI-X assignment of the device via +KVM_DEASSIGN_DEV_IRQ. Calling this service more than once at any earlier +point will fail. struct kvm_assigned_msix_nr { __u32 assigned_dev_id; @@ -1291,6 +1301,135 @@ Returns the tsc frequency of the guest. The unit of the return value is KHz. If the host has unstable tsc this ioctl returns -EIO instead as an error. +4.56 KVM_GET_LAPIC + +Capability: KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP +Architectures: x86 +Type: vcpu ioctl +Parameters: struct kvm_lapic_state (out) +Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error + +#define KVM_APIC_REG_SIZE 0x400 +struct kvm_lapic_state { + char regs[KVM_APIC_REG_SIZE]; +}; + +Reads the Local APIC registers and copies them into the input argument. The +data format and layout are the same as documented in the architecture manual. + +4.57 KVM_SET_LAPIC + +Capability: KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP +Architectures: x86 +Type: vcpu ioctl +Parameters: struct kvm_lapic_state (in) +Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error + +#define KVM_APIC_REG_SIZE 0x400 +struct kvm_lapic_state { + char regs[KVM_APIC_REG_SIZE]; +}; + +Copies the input argument into the the Local APIC registers. The data format +and layout are the same as documented in the architecture manual. + +4.58 KVM_IOEVENTFD + +Capability: KVM_CAP_IOEVENTFD +Architectures: all +Type: vm ioctl +Parameters: struct kvm_ioeventfd (in) +Returns: 0 on success, !0 on error + +This ioctl attaches or detaches an ioeventfd to a legal pio/mmio address +within the guest. A guest write in the registered address will signal the +provided event instead of triggering an exit. + +struct kvm_ioeventfd { + __u64 datamatch; + __u64 addr; /* legal pio/mmio address */ + __u32 len; /* 1, 2, 4, or 8 bytes */ + __s32 fd; + __u32 flags; + __u8 pad[36]; +}; + +The following flags are defined: + +#define KVM_IOEVENTFD_FLAG_DATAMATCH (1 << kvm_ioeventfd_flag_nr_datamatch) +#define KVM_IOEVENTFD_FLAG_PIO (1 << kvm_ioeventfd_flag_nr_pio) +#define KVM_IOEVENTFD_FLAG_DEASSIGN (1 << kvm_ioeventfd_flag_nr_deassign) + +If datamatch flag is set, the event will be signaled only if the written value +to the registered address is equal to datamatch in struct kvm_ioeventfd. + +4.62 KVM_CREATE_SPAPR_TCE + +Capability: KVM_CAP_SPAPR_TCE +Architectures: powerpc +Type: vm ioctl +Parameters: struct kvm_create_spapr_tce (in) +Returns: file descriptor for manipulating the created TCE table + +This creates a virtual TCE (translation control entry) table, which +is an IOMMU for PAPR-style virtual I/O. It is used to translate +logical addresses used in virtual I/O into guest physical addresses, +and provides a scatter/gather capability for PAPR virtual I/O. + +/* for KVM_CAP_SPAPR_TCE */ +struct kvm_create_spapr_tce { + __u64 liobn; + __u32 window_size; +}; + +The liobn field gives the logical IO bus number for which to create a +TCE table. The window_size field specifies the size of the DMA window +which this TCE table will translate - the table will contain one 64 +bit TCE entry for every 4kiB of the DMA window. + +When the guest issues an H_PUT_TCE hcall on a liobn for which a TCE +table has been created using this ioctl(), the kernel will handle it +in real mode, updating the TCE table. H_PUT_TCE calls for other +liobns will cause a vm exit and must be handled by userspace. + +The return value is a file descriptor which can be passed to mmap(2) +to map the created TCE table into userspace. This lets userspace read +the entries written by kernel-handled H_PUT_TCE calls, and also lets +userspace update the TCE table directly which is useful in some +circumstances. + +4.63 KVM_ALLOCATE_RMA + +Capability: KVM_CAP_PPC_RMA +Architectures: powerpc +Type: vm ioctl +Parameters: struct kvm_allocate_rma (out) +Returns: file descriptor for mapping the allocated RMA + +This allocates a Real Mode Area (RMA) from the pool allocated at boot +time by the kernel. An RMA is a physically-contiguous, aligned region +of memory used on older POWER processors to provide the memory which +will be accessed by real-mode (MMU off) accesses in a KVM guest. +POWER processors support a set of sizes for the RMA that usually +includes 64MB, 128MB, 256MB and some larger powers of two. + +/* for KVM_ALLOCATE_RMA */ +struct kvm_allocate_rma { + __u64 rma_size; +}; + +The return value is a file descriptor which can be passed to mmap(2) +to map the allocated RMA into userspace. The mapped area can then be +passed to the KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION ioctl to establish it as the +RMA for a virtual machine. The size of the RMA in bytes (which is +fixed at host kernel boot time) is returned in the rma_size field of +the argument structure. + +The KVM_CAP_PPC_RMA capability is 1 or 2 if the KVM_ALLOCATE_RMA ioctl +is supported; 2 if the processor requires all virtual machines to have +an RMA, or 1 if the processor can use an RMA but doesn't require it, +because it supports the Virtual RMA (VRMA) facility. + 5. The kvm_run structure Application code obtains a pointer to the kvm_run structure by @@ -1473,6 +1612,23 @@ Userspace can now handle the hypercall and when it's done modify the gprs as necessary. Upon guest entry all guest GPRs will then be replaced by the values in this struct. + /* KVM_EXIT_PAPR_HCALL */ + struct { + __u64 nr; + __u64 ret; + __u64 args[9]; + } papr_hcall; + +This is used on 64-bit PowerPC when emulating a pSeries partition, +e.g. with the 'pseries' machine type in qemu. It occurs when the +guest does a hypercall using the 'sc 1' instruction. The 'nr' field +contains the hypercall number (from the guest R3), and 'args' contains +the arguments (from the guest R4 - R12). Userspace should put the +return code in 'ret' and any extra returned values in args[]. +The possible hypercalls are defined in the Power Architecture Platform +Requirements (PAPR) document available from www.power.org (free +developer registration required to access it). + /* Fix the size of the union. */ char padding[256]; }; diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt index f46aa58389c..5dc972c09b5 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt @@ -165,6 +165,10 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information: Contains the value of efer.nxe for which the page is valid. role.cr0_wp: Contains the value of cr0.wp for which the page is valid. + role.smep_andnot_wp: + Contains the value of cr4.smep && !cr0.wp for which the page is valid + (pages for which this is true are different from other pages; see the + treatment of cr0.wp=0 below). gfn: Either the guest page table containing the translations shadowed by this page, or the base page frame for linear translations. See role.direct. @@ -317,6 +321,20 @@ on fault type: (user write faults generate a #PF) +In the first case there is an additional complication if CR4.SMEP is +enabled: since we've turned the page into a kernel page, the kernel may now +execute it. We handle this by also setting spte.nx. If we get a user +fetch or read fault, we'll change spte.u=1 and spte.nx=gpte.nx back. + +To prevent an spte that was converted into a kernel page with cr0.wp=0 +from being written by the kernel after cr0.wp has changed to 1, we make +the value of cr0.wp part of the page role. This means that an spte created +with one value of cr0.wp cannot be used when cr0.wp has a different value - +it will simply be missed by the shadow page lookup code. A similar issue +exists when an spte created with cr0.wp=0 and cr4.smep=0 is used after +changing cr4.smep to 1. To avoid this, the value of !cr0.wp && cr4.smep +is also made a part of the page role. + Large pages =========== diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt index d079aed27e0..50317809113 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt @@ -185,3 +185,37 @@ MSR_KVM_ASYNC_PF_EN: 0x4b564d02 Currently type 2 APF will be always delivered on the same vcpu as type 1 was, but guest should not rely on that. + +MSR_KVM_STEAL_TIME: 0x4b564d03 + + data: 64-byte alignment physical address of a memory area which must be + in guest RAM, plus an enable bit in bit 0. This memory is expected to + hold a copy of the following structure: + + struct kvm_steal_time { + __u64 steal; + __u32 version; + __u32 flags; + __u32 pad[12]; + } + + whose data will be filled in by the hypervisor periodically. Only one + write, or registration, is needed for each VCPU. The interval between + updates of this structure is arbitrary and implementation-dependent. + The hypervisor may update this structure at any time it sees fit until + anything with bit0 == 0 is written to it. Guest is required to make sure + this structure is initialized to zero. + + Fields have the following meanings: + + version: a sequence counter. In other words, guest has to check + this field before and after grabbing time information and make + sure they are both equal and even. An odd version indicates an + in-progress update. + + flags: At this point, always zero. May be used to indicate + changes in this structure in the future. + + steal: the amount of time in which this vCPU did not run, in + nanoseconds. Time during which the vcpu is idle, will not be + reported as steal time. diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/nested-vmx.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/nested-vmx.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..8ed937de116 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/nested-vmx.txt @@ -0,0 +1,251 @@ +Nested VMX +========== + +Overview +--------- + +On Intel processors, KVM uses Intel's VMX (Virtual-Machine eXtensions) +to easily and efficiently run guest operating systems. Normally, these guests +*cannot* themselves be hypervisors running their own guests, because in VMX, +guests cannot use VMX instructions. + +The "Nested VMX" feature adds this missing capability - of running guest +hypervisors (which use VMX) with their own nested guests. It does so by +allowing a guest to use VMX instructions, and correctly and efficiently +emulating them using the single level of VMX available in the hardware. + +We describe in much greater detail the theory behind the nested VMX feature, +its implementation and its performance characteristics, in the OSDI 2010 paper +"The Turtles Project: Design and Implementation of Nested Virtualization", +available at: + + http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi10/tech/full_papers/Ben-Yehuda.pdf + + +Terminology +----------- + +Single-level virtualization has two levels - the host (KVM) and the guests. +In nested virtualization, we have three levels: The host (KVM), which we call +L0, the guest hypervisor, which we call L1, and its nested guest, which we +call L2. + + +Known limitations +----------------- + +The current code supports running Linux guests under KVM guests. +Only 64-bit guest hypervisors are supported. + +Additional patches for running Windows under guest KVM, and Linux under +guest VMware server, and support for nested EPT, are currently running in +the lab, and will be sent as follow-on patchsets. + + +Running nested VMX +------------------ + +The nested VMX feature is disabled by default. It can be enabled by giving +the "nested=1" option to the kvm-intel module. + +No modifications are required to user space (qemu). However, qemu's default +emulated CPU type (qemu64) does not list the "VMX" CPU feature, so it must be +explicitly enabled, by giving qemu one of the following options: + + -cpu host (emulated CPU has all features of the real CPU) + + -cpu qemu64,+vmx (add just the vmx feature to a named CPU type) + + +ABIs +---- + +Nested VMX aims to present a standard and (eventually) fully-functional VMX +implementation for the a guest hypervisor to use. As such, the official +specification of the ABI that it provides is Intel's VMX specification, +namely volume 3B of their "Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software +Developer's Manual". Not all of VMX's features are currently fully supported, +but the goal is to eventually support them all, starting with the VMX features +which are used in practice by popular hypervisors (KVM and others). + +As a VMX implementation, nested VMX presents a VMCS structure to L1. +As mandated by the spec, other than the two fields revision_id and abort, +this structure is *opaque* to its user, who is not supposed to know or care +about its internal structure. Rather, the structure is accessed through the +VMREAD and VMWRITE instructions. +Still, for debugging purposes, KVM developers might be interested to know the +internals of this structure; This is struct vmcs12 from arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c. + +The name "vmcs12" refers to the VMCS that L1 builds for L2. In the code we +also have "vmcs01", the VMCS that L0 built for L1, and "vmcs02" is the VMCS +which L0 builds to actually run L2 - how this is done is explained in the +aforementioned paper. + +For convenience, we repeat the content of struct vmcs12 here. If the internals +of this structure changes, this can break live migration across KVM versions. +VMCS12_REVISION (from vmx.c) should be changed if struct vmcs12 or its inner +struct shadow_vmcs is ever changed. + + typedef u64 natural_width; + struct __packed vmcs12 { + /* According to the Intel spec, a VMCS region must start with + * these two user-visible fields */ + u32 revision_id; + u32 abort; + + u32 launch_state; /* set to 0 by VMCLEAR, to 1 by VMLAUNCH */ + u32 padding[7]; /* room for future expansion */ + + u64 io_bitmap_a; + u64 io_bitmap_b; + u64 msr_bitmap; + u64 vm_exit_msr_store_addr; + u64 vm_exit_msr_load_addr; + u64 vm_entry_msr_load_addr; + u64 tsc_offset; + u64 virtual_apic_page_addr; + u64 apic_access_addr; + u64 ept_pointer; + u64 guest_physical_address; + u64 vmcs_link_pointer; + u64 guest_ia32_debugctl; + u64 guest_ia32_pat; + u64 guest_ia32_efer; + u64 guest_pdptr0; + u64 guest_pdptr1; + u64 guest_pdptr2; + u64 guest_pdptr3; + u64 host_ia32_pat; + u64 host_ia32_efer; + u64 padding64[8]; /* room for future expansion */ + natural_width cr0_guest_host_mask; + natural_width cr4_guest_host_mask; + natural_width cr0_read_shadow; + natural_width cr4_read_shadow; + natural_width cr3_target_value0; + natural_width cr3_target_value1; + natural_width cr3_target_value2; + natural_width cr3_target_value3; + natural_width exit_qualification; + natural_width guest_linear_address; + natural_width guest_cr0; + natural_width guest_cr3; + natural_width guest_cr4; + natural_width guest_es_base; + natural_width guest_cs_base; + natural_width guest_ss_base; + natural_width guest_ds_base; + natural_width guest_fs_base; + natural_width guest_gs_base; + natural_width guest_ldtr_base; + natural_width guest_tr_base; + natural_width guest_gdtr_base; + natural_width guest_idtr_base; + natural_width guest_dr7; + natural_width guest_rsp; + natural_width guest_rip; + natural_width guest_rflags; + natural_width guest_pending_dbg_exceptions; + natural_width guest_sysenter_esp; + natural_width guest_sysenter_eip; + natural_width host_cr0; + natural_width host_cr3; + natural_width host_cr4; + natural_width host_fs_base; + natural_width host_gs_base; + natural_width host_tr_base; + natural_width host_gdtr_base; + natural_width host_idtr_base; + natural_width host_ia32_sysenter_esp; + natural_width host_ia32_sysenter_eip; + natural_width host_rsp; + natural_width host_rip; + natural_width paddingl[8]; /* room for future expansion */ + u32 pin_based_vm_exec_control; + u32 cpu_based_vm_exec_control; + u32 exception_bitmap; + u32 page_fault_error_code_mask; + u32 page_fault_error_code_match; + u32 cr3_target_count; + u32 vm_exit_controls; + u32 vm_exit_msr_store_count; + u32 vm_exit_msr_load_count; + u32 vm_entry_controls; + u32 vm_entry_msr_load_count; + u32 vm_entry_intr_info_field; + u32 vm_entry_exception_error_code; + u32 vm_entry_instruction_len; + u32 tpr_threshold; + u32 secondary_vm_exec_control; + u32 vm_instruction_error; + u32 vm_exit_reason; + u32 vm_exit_intr_info; + u32 vm_exit_intr_error_code; + u32 idt_vectoring_info_field; + u32 idt_vectoring_error_code; + u32 vm_exit_instruction_len; + u32 vmx_instruction_info; + u32 guest_es_limit; + u32 guest_cs_limit; + u32 guest_ss_limit; + u32 guest_ds_limit; + u32 guest_fs_limit; + u32 guest_gs_limit; + u32 guest_ldtr_limit; + u32 guest_tr_limit; + u32 guest_gdtr_limit; + u32 guest_idtr_limit; + u32 guest_es_ar_bytes; + u32 guest_cs_ar_bytes; + u32 guest_ss_ar_bytes; + u32 guest_ds_ar_bytes; + u32 guest_fs_ar_bytes; + u32 guest_gs_ar_bytes; + u32 guest_ldtr_ar_bytes; + u32 guest_tr_ar_bytes; + u32 guest_interruptibility_info; + u32 guest_activity_state; + u32 guest_sysenter_cs; + u32 host_ia32_sysenter_cs; + u32 padding32[8]; /* room for future expansion */ + u16 virtual_processor_id; + u16 guest_es_selector; + u16 guest_cs_selector; + u16 guest_ss_selector; + u16 guest_ds_selector; + u16 guest_fs_selector; + u16 guest_gs_selector; + u16 guest_ldtr_selector; + u16 guest_tr_selector; + u16 host_es_selector; + u16 host_cs_selector; + u16 host_ss_selector; + u16 host_ds_selector; + u16 host_fs_selector; + u16 host_gs_selector; + u16 host_tr_selector; + }; + + +Authors +------- + +These patches were written by: + Abel Gordon, abelg <at> il.ibm.com + Nadav Har'El, nyh <at> il.ibm.com + Orit Wasserman, oritw <at> il.ibm.com + Ben-Ami Yassor, benami <at> il.ibm.com + Muli Ben-Yehuda, muli <at> il.ibm.com + +With contributions by: + Anthony Liguori, aliguori <at> us.ibm.com + Mike Day, mdday <at> us.ibm.com + Michael Factor, factor <at> il.ibm.com + Zvi Dubitzky, dubi <at> il.ibm.com + +And valuable reviews by: + Avi Kivity, avi <at> redhat.com + Gleb Natapov, gleb <at> redhat.com + Marcelo Tosatti, mtosatti <at> redhat.com + Kevin Tian, kevin.tian <at> intel.com + and others. diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/ppc-pv.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/ppc-pv.txt index 3ab969c5904..2b7ce190cde 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/ppc-pv.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/ppc-pv.txt @@ -68,9 +68,11 @@ page that contains parts of supervisor visible register state. The guest can map this shared page using the KVM hypercall KVM_HC_PPC_MAP_MAGIC_PAGE. With this hypercall issued the guest always gets the magic page mapped at the -desired location in effective and physical address space. For now, we always -map the page to -4096. This way we can access it using absolute load and store -functions. The following instruction reads the first field of the magic page: +desired location. The first parameter indicates the effective address when the +MMU is enabled. The second parameter indicates the address in real mode, if +applicable to the target. For now, we always map the page to -4096. This way we +can access it using absolute load and store functions. The following +instruction reads the first field of the magic page: ld rX, -4096(0) diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/lguest/lguest.c b/Documentation/virtual/lguest/lguest.c index cd9d6af61d0..043bd7df313 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/lguest/lguest.c +++ b/Documentation/virtual/lguest/lguest.c @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ #include <asm/bootparam.h> #include "../../../include/linux/lguest_launcher.h" /*L:110 - * We can ignore the 42 include files we need for this program, but I do want + * We can ignore the 43 include files we need for this program, but I do want * to draw attention to the use of kernel-style types. * * As Linus said, "C is a Spartan language, and so should your naming be." I @@ -65,7 +65,6 @@ typedef uint16_t u16; typedef uint8_t u8; /*:*/ -#define PAGE_PRESENT 0x7 /* Present, RW, Execute */ #define BRIDGE_PFX "bridge:" #ifndef SIOCBRADDIF #define SIOCBRADDIF 0x89a2 /* add interface to bridge */ @@ -861,8 +860,10 @@ static void console_output(struct virtqueue *vq) /* writev can return a partial write, so we loop here. */ while (!iov_empty(iov, out)) { int len = writev(STDOUT_FILENO, iov, out); - if (len <= 0) - err(1, "Write to stdout gave %i", len); + if (len <= 0) { + warn("Write to stdout gave %i (%d)", len, errno); + break; + } iov_consume(iov, out, len); } @@ -898,7 +899,7 @@ static void net_output(struct virtqueue *vq) * same format: what a coincidence! */ if (writev(net_info->tunfd, iov, out) < 0) - errx(1, "Write to tun failed?"); + warnx("Write to tun failed (%d)?", errno); /* * Done with that one; wait_for_vq_desc() will send the interrupt if @@ -955,7 +956,7 @@ static void net_input(struct virtqueue *vq) */ len = readv(net_info->tunfd, iov, in); if (len <= 0) - err(1, "Failed to read from tun."); + warn("Failed to read from tun (%d).", errno); /* * Mark that packet buffer as used, but don't interrupt here. We want @@ -1093,9 +1094,10 @@ static void update_device_status(struct device *dev) warnx("Device %s configuration FAILED", dev->name); if (dev->running) reset_device(dev); - } else if (dev->desc->status & VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER_OK) { - if (!dev->running) - start_device(dev); + } else { + if (dev->running) + err(1, "Device %s features finalized twice", dev->name); + start_device(dev); } } @@ -1120,25 +1122,11 @@ static void handle_output(unsigned long addr) return; } - /* - * Devices *can* be used before status is set to DRIVER_OK. - * The original plan was that they would never do this: they - * would always finish setting up their status bits before - * actually touching the virtqueues. In practice, we allowed - * them to, and they do (eg. the disk probes for partition - * tables as part of initialization). - * - * If we see this, we start the device: once it's running, we - * expect the device to catch all the notifications. - */ + /* Devices should not be used before features are finalized. */ for (vq = i->vq; vq; vq = vq->next) { if (addr != vq->config.pfn*getpagesize()) continue; - if (i->running) - errx(1, "Notification on running %s", i->name); - /* This just calls create_thread() for each virtqueue */ - start_device(i); - return; + errx(1, "Notification on %s before setup!", i->name); } } @@ -1370,7 +1358,7 @@ static void setup_console(void) * --sharenet=<name> option which opens or creates a named pipe. This can be * used to send packets to another guest in a 1:1 manner. * - * More sopisticated is to use one of the tools developed for project like UML + * More sophisticated is to use one of the tools developed for project like UML * to do networking. * * Faster is to do virtio bonding in kernel. Doing this 1:1 would be @@ -1380,7 +1368,7 @@ static void setup_console(void) * multiple inter-guest channels behind one interface, although it would * require some manner of hotplugging new virtio channels. * - * Finally, we could implement a virtio network switch in the kernel. + * Finally, we could use a virtio network switch in the kernel, ie. vhost. :*/ static u32 str2ip(const char *ipaddr) @@ -2017,10 +2005,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) /* Tell the entry path not to try to reload segment registers. */ boot->hdr.loadflags |= KEEP_SEGMENTS; - /* - * We tell the kernel to initialize the Guest: this returns the open - * /dev/lguest file descriptor. - */ + /* We tell the kernel to initialize the Guest. */ tell_kernel(start); /* Ensure that we terminate if a device-servicing child dies. */ |