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authorJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>2012-10-09 18:35:22 -0400
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nfs: disintegrate UAPI for nfs
This is to complete part of the Userspace API (UAPI) disintegration for which the preparatory patches were pulled recently. After these patches, userspace headers will be segregated into: include/uapi/linux/.../foo.h for the userspace interface stuff, and: include/linux/.../foo.h for the strictly kernel internal stuff. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
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+Linux KVM Hypercall:
+===================
+X86:
+ KVM Hypercalls have a three-byte sequence of either the vmcall or the vmmcall
+ instruction. The hypervisor can replace it with instructions that are
+ guaranteed to be supported.
+
+ Up to four arguments may be passed in rbx, rcx, rdx, and rsi respectively.
+ The hypercall number should be placed in rax and the return value will be
+ placed in rax. No other registers will be clobbered unless explicitly stated
+ by the particular hypercall.
+
+S390:
+ R2-R7 are used for parameters 1-6. In addition, R1 is used for hypercall
+ number. The return value is written to R2.
+
+ S390 uses diagnose instruction as hypercall (0x500) along with hypercall
+ number in R1.
+
+ PowerPC:
+ It uses R3-R10 and hypercall number in R11. R4-R11 are used as output registers.
+ Return value is placed in R3.
+
+ KVM hypercalls uses 4 byte opcode, that are patched with 'hypercall-instructions'
+ property inside the device tree's /hypervisor node.
+ For more information refer to Documentation/virtual/kvm/ppc-pv.txt
+
+KVM Hypercalls Documentation
+===========================
+The template for each hypercall is:
+1. Hypercall name.
+2. Architecture(s)
+3. Status (deprecated, obsolete, active)
+4. Purpose
+
+1. KVM_HC_VAPIC_POLL_IRQ
+------------------------
+Architecture: x86
+Status: active
+Purpose: Trigger guest exit so that the host can check for pending
+interrupts on reentry.
+
+2. KVM_HC_MMU_OP
+------------------------
+Architecture: x86
+Status: deprecated.
+Purpose: Support MMU operations such as writing to PTE,
+flushing TLB, release PT.
+
+3. KVM_HC_FEATURES
+------------------------
+Architecture: PPC
+Status: active
+Purpose: Expose hypercall availability to the guest. On x86 platforms, cpuid
+used to enumerate which hypercalls are available. On PPC, either device tree
+based lookup ( which is also what EPAPR dictates) OR KVM specific enumeration
+mechanism (which is this hypercall) can be used.
+
+4. KVM_HC_PPC_MAP_MAGIC_PAGE
+------------------------
+Architecture: PPC
+Status: active
+Purpose: To enable communication between the hypervisor and guest there is a
+shared page that contains parts of supervisor visible register state.
+The guest can map this shared page to access its supervisor register through
+memory using this hypercall.
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