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authorSheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>2010-06-13 11:29:39 +0200
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2010-08-01 09:46:37 +0200
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parentKVM: PPC: fix build warning in kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run (diff)
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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>
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@@ -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