From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] KVM: Add unified KVM_GET/SET_VCPU_STATE IOCTL
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:11:27 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AD6D92F.506@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091013160648.27006.25850.stgit@mchn012c.ww002.siemens.net>
On 10/14/2009 01:06 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Add a new IOCTL pair to retrieve or set the VCPU state in one chunk.
> More precisely, the IOCTL is able to process a list of substates to be
> read or written. This list is easily extensible without breaking the
> existing ABI, thus we will no longer have to add new IOCTLs when we
> discover a missing VCPU state field or want to support new hardware
> features.
>
> This patch establishes the generic infrastructure for KVM_GET/
> SET_VCPU_STATE and adds support for the generic substates REGS, SREGS,
> FPU, and MP. To avoid code duplication, the entry point for the
> corresponding original IOCTLs are converted to make use of the new
> infrastructure internally, too.
>
>
One last thing - Documentation/kvm/api.txt needs updating. Glauber,
this holds for your patches as well.
--
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-15 8:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-13 16:06 [PATCH 0/4] Extensible VCPU state IOCTL Jan Kiszka
2009-10-13 16:06 ` [PATCH 2/4] KVM: Add unified KVM_GET/SET_VCPU_STATE IOCTL Jan Kiszka
2009-10-15 8:00 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-15 9:22 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-10-15 9:33 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-15 8:07 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-15 9:22 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-10-15 8:11 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-10-15 9:22 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-10-15 14:54 ` Glauber Costa
2009-10-15 15:57 ` Glauber Costa
2009-10-15 16:06 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-10-15 16:23 ` Glauber Costa
2009-10-13 16:06 ` [PATCH 3/4] KVM: x86: Add support for KVM_GET/SET_VCPU_STATE Jan Kiszka
2009-10-13 16:06 ` [PATCH 1/4] KVM: Reorder IOCTLs in main kvm.h Jan Kiszka
2009-10-13 16:06 ` [PATCH 4/4] KVM: x86: Add VCPU substate for NMI states Jan Kiszka
2009-10-15 8:09 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-15 9:22 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-10-15 9:29 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-15 11:27 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-10-25 13:11 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-26 7:40 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-10-13 16:18 ` [RFC][PATCH] kvm: x86: Add support for KVM_GET/PUT_VCPU_STATE Jan Kiszka
2009-10-14 8:52 ` [PATCH] qemu-kvm: x86: Add support for NMI states Jan Kiszka
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