[PATCH] kvm: Document KVM_IOEVENTFD

Sasha Levin
2011-05-28T11:13:33Z

Document KVM_IOEVENTFD that can be used to receive
notifications of PIO/MMIO events without triggering
an exit.

Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
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Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
index 42542eb..80c5fcd 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
@@ -1291,6 +1291,36 @@ 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_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 deattaches 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.
+
5. The kvm_run structure

Application code obtains a pointer to the kvm_run structure by
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