[Zesty][PATCH v4 09/10] KVM: PPC: Reserve KVM_CAP_SPAPR_TCE_VFIO capability number
Kleber Souza
kleber.souza at canonical.com
Thu Aug 17 10:21:16 UTC 2017
On 08/07/17 17:45, Jose Ricardo Ziviani wrote:
> From: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru>
>
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1686019
>
> Small change on file include/uapi/linux/kvm.h due to conflics with
> defines included by MIPS and S390 patches.
>
Same comment as for patch 03/10, please add this info bellow the
original Sign-offs.
> This adds a capability number for in-kernel support for VFIO on
> SPAPR platform.
>
> The capability will tell the user space whether in-kernel handlers of
> H_PUT_TCE can handle VFIO-targeted requests or not. If not, the user space
> must not attempt allocating a TCE table in the host kernel via
> the KVM_CREATE_SPAPR_TCE KVM ioctl because in that case TCE requests
> will not be passed to the user space which is desired action in
> the situation like that.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru>
> Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus at ozlabs.org>
> (backported from commit 4898d3f49b5b156c33f0ae0f49ede417ab86195e)
> Signed-off-by: Jose Ricardo Ziviani <joserz at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
> index 1f50f21..655c845 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
> @@ -873,6 +873,7 @@ struct kvm_ppc_smmu_info {
> #define KVM_CAP_PPC_HTM 132
> #define KVM_CAP_PPC_MMU_RADIX 134
> #define KVM_CAP_PPC_MMU_HASH_V3 135
> +#define KVM_CAP_SPAPR_TCE_VFIO 142
>
> #ifdef KVM_CAP_IRQ_ROUTING
>
>
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