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| author | Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com> | 2010-06-13 17:29:39 +0800 |
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| committer | Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> | 2010-08-01 10:46:37 +0300 |
| commit | 2d5b5a665508c60577c1088e0405850a965b6795 (patch) | |
| tree | 3549325770a39b0c7fd2b7f81aa6fa42295803e2 /Documentation/kvm | |
| parent | 69b61833f7ce6e61e196c8a724e4d1278b24ac02 (diff) | |
KVM: x86: XSAVE/XRSTOR live migration support
This patch enable save/restore of xsave state.
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kvm')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kvm/api.txt | 74 |
1 files changed, 74 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/kvm/api.txt index 159b4efe1b0e..ffba03f55bdf 100644 --- a/Documentation/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/kvm/api.txt @@ -922,6 +922,80 @@ Define which vcpu is the Bootstrap Processor (BSP). Values are the same as the vcpu id in KVM_CREATE_VCPU. If this ioctl is not called, the default is vcpu 0. +4.41 KVM_GET_XSAVE + +Capability: KVM_CAP_XSAVE +Architectures: x86 +Type: vcpu ioctl +Parameters: struct kvm_xsave (out) +Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error + +struct kvm_xsave { + __u32 region[1024]; +}; + +This ioctl would copy current vcpu's xsave struct to the userspace. + +4.42 KVM_SET_XSAVE + +Capability: KVM_CAP_XSAVE +Architectures: x86 +Type: vcpu ioctl +Parameters: struct kvm_xsave (in) +Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error + +struct kvm_xsave { + __u32 region[1024]; +}; + +This ioctl would copy userspace's xsave struct to the kernel. + +4.43 KVM_GET_XCRS + +Capability: KVM_CAP_XCRS +Architectures: x86 +Type: vcpu ioctl +Parameters: struct kvm_xcrs (out) +Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error + +struct kvm_xcr { + __u32 xcr; + __u32 reserved; + __u64 value; +}; + +struct kvm_xcrs { + __u32 nr_xcrs; + __u32 flags; + struct kvm_xcr xcrs[KVM_MAX_XCRS]; + __u64 padding[16]; +}; + +This ioctl would copy current vcpu's xcrs to the userspace. + +4.44 KVM_SET_XCRS + +Capability: KVM_CAP_XCRS +Architectures: x86 +Type: vcpu ioctl +Parameters: struct kvm_xcrs (in) +Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error + +struct kvm_xcr { + __u32 xcr; + __u32 reserved; + __u64 value; +}; + +struct kvm_xcrs { + __u32 nr_xcrs; + __u32 flags; + struct kvm_xcr xcrs[KVM_MAX_XCRS]; + __u64 padding[16]; +}; + +This ioctl would set vcpu's xcr to the value userspace specified. + 5. The kvm_run structure Application code obtains a pointer to the kvm_run structure by |