From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tossati <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>,
KVM <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
Joachim von Buttlar <joachim_von_buttlar@de.ibm.com>,
Jens Freimann <jfrei@de.ibm.com>,
Constantin Werner <constantin.werner@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/12] User controlled virtual machines
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:33:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ED78212.4030507@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ED77CE2.3050109@redhat.com>
On 12/01/2011 03:10 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 12/01/2011 02:57 PM, Carsten Otte wrote:
> > Hi Avi, Hi Marcelo,
> >
> > this patch series introduces an interface to allow a privileged userspace
> > program to control a KVM virtual machine. The interface is intended for
> > use by a machine simulator called CECSIM that can simulate an entire
> > mainframe machine with nested virtualization and I/O for the purpose
> > of testing and debugging its firmware prior to availability of silicon.
> > This patchset allows for concurrent use of the KVM device driver to drive
> > both regular and user controlled virtual machines at the same time.
> > I would kindly like to ask for review and inclusion of these patches.
>
> So, this moves the responsibility of handling intercepts from the kernel
> to userspace, yes?
>
> How much of the kvm code continues to be active after this? Perhaps it
> makes sense to have a separate interface for this.
Okay, I read the code and I even think I understood a little bit of it.
In general the patches look okay, I had only minor comments. But please
do document all the new interfaces.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-01 13:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-01 12:57 [patch 00/12] User controlled virtual machines Carsten Otte
2011-12-01 12:57 ` [patch 01/12] [PATCH] kvm-s390: ioctl to switch to user " Carsten Otte
2011-12-01 13:15 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-01 13:31 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-01 14:20 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2011-12-01 12:57 ` [patch 02/12] [PATCH] kvm-s390-ucontrol: per vcpu address spaces Carsten Otte
2011-12-01 13:19 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-01 12:57 ` [patch 03/12] [PATCH] kvm-s390-ucontrol: export page faults to user Carsten Otte
2011-12-01 12:57 ` [patch 04/12] [PATCH] kvm-s390-ucontrol: export SIE control block " Carsten Otte
2011-12-01 13:25 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-01 13:26 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-01 13:59 ` Carsten Otte
2011-12-01 14:04 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-01 12:57 ` [patch 05/12] [PATCH] kvm-s390-ucontrol: disable in-kernel handling of SIE intercepts Carsten Otte
2011-12-01 12:57 ` [patch 06/12] [PATCH] kvm-s390-ucontrol: disable in-kernel irq stack Carsten Otte
2011-12-01 12:57 ` [patch 07/12] [PATCH] kvm-s390-ucontrol: interface to inject faults on a vcpu page table Carsten Otte
2011-12-01 12:57 ` [patch 08/12] [PATCH] kvm-s390-ucontrol: disable sca Carsten Otte
2011-12-01 12:57 ` [patch 09/12] [PATCH] kvm-s390: fix assumption for KVM_MAX_VCPUS Carsten Otte
2011-12-01 12:57 ` [patch 10/12] [PATCH] kvm-s390: storage key interface Carsten Otte
2011-12-01 12:57 ` [patch 11/12] [PATCH] kvm-s390-ucontrol: announce capability for user controlled vms Carsten Otte
2011-12-01 12:57 ` [patch 12/12] From: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Carsten Otte
2011-12-01 13:10 ` [patch 00/12] User controlled virtual machines Avi Kivity
2011-12-01 13:33 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-12-02 11:52 ` Carsten Otte
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