[PATCH 36/37] kvm: Make kvm_state globally available

Marcelo Tosatti
2011-02-14T15:25:00Z

KVM-assisted devices need access to it but we have no clean channel to
distribute a reference. As a workaround until there is a better
solution, export kvm_state for global use, though use should remain
restricted to the mentioned scenario.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
---
kvm-all.c | 2 +-
kvm.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kvm-all.c b/kvm-all.c
index ecac0b3..e6a7de4 100644
--- a/kvm-all.c
+++ b/kvm-all.c
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ struct KVMState
int many_ioeventfds;
};

-static KVMState *kvm_state;
+KVMState *kvm_state;

static const KVMCapabilityInfo kvm_required_capabilites[] = {
KVM_CAP_INFO(USER_MEMORY),
diff --git a/kvm.h b/kvm.h
index 4caa6ec..59b2c29 100644
--- a/kvm.h
+++ b/kvm.h
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ int kvm_on_sigbus(int code, void *addr);

struct KVMState;
typedef struct KVMState KVMState;
+extern KVMState *kvm_state;

int kvm_ioctl(KVMState *s, int type, ...);

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