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authorAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2010-04-29 11:08:56 +0200
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2010-08-01 09:35:40 +0200
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KVM: Document KVM_SET_IDENTITY_MAP ioctl
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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This ioctl is only useful after KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP. Without an in-kernel
irqchip, the multiprocessing state must be maintained by userspace.
+4.39 KVM_SET_IDENTITY_MAP_ADDR
+
+Capability: KVM_CAP_SET_IDENTITY_MAP_ADDR
+Architectures: x86
+Type: vm ioctl
+Parameters: unsigned long identity (in)
+Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
+
+This ioctl defines the physical address of a one-page region in the guest
+physical address space. The region must be within the first 4GB of the
+guest physical address space and must not conflict with any memory slot
+or any mmio address. The guest may malfunction if it accesses this memory
+region.
+
+This ioctl is required on Intel-based hosts. This is needed on Intel hardware
+because of a quirk in the virtualization implementation (see the internals
+documentation when it pops into existence).
+
5. The kvm_run structure
Application code obtains a pointer to the kvm_run structure by