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From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, KVM <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2012 23:00:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FCC32F6.1010101@landley.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FC7AE6C.9050106@zytor.com>

On 05/31/2012 12:46 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 05/31/2012 01:01 AM, Raghavendra K T wrote:
>> +
>> +TODO:
>> +1. more information on input and output needed?
>> +2. Add more detail to purpose of hypercalls.
>>
> 
> 1. definitely, including the hypercall ABI.
> 
> 	-hpa
> 

I was wondering about that. It looks like
Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt might cover some of that already in
section 5, but it doesn't look complete...

Also, could I get a 00-INDEX file for this directory explaining what
these individual files are? I think "api.txt" is supposed to be
host-side API for controlling a guest VM (from userspace via ioctls,
looks like), and hypercalls.txt is guest-side API for poking the host.
How someone would write host-side code that _responds_ to a hypercall, I
have no idea.  (It goes in the host kernel?)

Rob



-- 
GNU/Linux isn't: Linux=GPLv2, GNU=GPLv3+, they can't share code.
Either it's "mere aggregation", or a license violation.  Pick one.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-04  4:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-31  8:01 [PATCH] Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls Raghavendra K T
2012-05-31 17:44 ` Randy Dunlap
2012-05-31 18:55   ` Jan Kiszka
2012-05-31 18:59     ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-04  7:29   ` Raghavendra K T
2012-05-31 17:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-04  4:00   ` Rob Landley [this message]
2012-06-04  8:21     ` Raghavendra K T
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-07-24  8:53 Raghavendra K T
2012-07-24 12:13 ` Alexander Graf
2012-07-24 13:14   ` Raghavendra K T
2012-08-01  3:07 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-08-01 10:49   ` Raghavendra K T
2012-08-01 18:25     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-08-02  7:08       ` Raghavendra K T
2012-08-02 10:13         ` Alexander Graf

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