From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sasha Levin Subject: Re: [patch 01/12] [PATCH] kvm-s390: ioctl to switch to user controlled virtual machines Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:25:09 +0200 Message-ID: <1323336309.3904.12.camel@lappy> References: <20111208091230.874920251@de.ibm.com> <20111208091728.908715499@de.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Avi Kivity , Marcelo Tossati , Christian Borntraeger , Heiko Carstens , Martin Schwidefsky , Cornelia Huck , KVM , Joachim von Buttlar , Jens Freimann , Constantin Werner , Alexander Graf , Xiantao Zhang To: Carsten Otte Return-path: Received: from mail-ee0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:36079 "EHLO mail-ee0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751021Ab1LHJZd (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2011 04:25:33 -0500 Received: by eekd41 with SMTP id d41so1054860eek.19 for ; Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:25:32 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20111208091728.908715499@de.ibm.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 10:12 +0100, Carsten Otte wrote: > plain text document attachment (enable-ucontrol.patch) > This patch introduces a new config option for user controlled kernel > virtual machines. It introduces an optional parameter to > KVM_CREATE_VM in order to create a user controlled virtual machine. > The parameter is passed to kvm_arch_init_vm for all architectures. > Valid values for the new parameter are KVM_VM_REGULAR (defined to 0 > for backward compatibility to old KVM_CREATE_VM) and > KVM_VM_S390_UCONTROL for s390 only. Why is it s390 specific? why isn't it KVM_VM_UCONTROL which is currently only implemented on s390? -- Sasha.