Re: [PATCH] Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls

From: Rob Landley
Date: Mon Jun 04 2012 - 00:29:14 EST


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



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