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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2007-02-19 12:37:47 (GMT)
committerAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>2007-03-04 09:12:40 (GMT)
commit102d8325a1d2f266d3d0a03fdde948544e72c12d (patch)
tree21024c8b9b2b702c79200343e26f14f075da0479 /drivers/kvm/vmx.c
parent5972e9535e94bf875eb8eab8a667ba04c7583874 (diff)
downloadlinux-102d8325a1d2f266d3d0a03fdde948544e72c12d.tar.xz
KVM: add MSR based hypercall API
This adds a special MSR based hypercall API to KVM. This is to be used by paravirtual kernels and virtual drivers. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/kvm/vmx.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/kvm/vmx.c13
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/kvm/vmx.c b/drivers/kvm/vmx.c
index d1198e2..0198d40 100644
--- a/drivers/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/drivers/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -1469,6 +1469,18 @@ static int handle_io(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *kvm_run)
return 0;
}
+static void
+vmx_patch_hypercall(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned char *hypercall)
+{
+ /*
+ * Patch in the VMCALL instruction:
+ */
+ hypercall[0] = 0x0f;
+ hypercall[1] = 0x01;
+ hypercall[2] = 0xc1;
+ hypercall[3] = 0xc3;
+}
+
static int handle_cr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *kvm_run)
{
u64 exit_qualification;
@@ -2064,6 +2076,7 @@ static struct kvm_arch_ops vmx_arch_ops = {
.run = vmx_vcpu_run,
.skip_emulated_instruction = skip_emulated_instruction,
.vcpu_setup = vmx_vcpu_setup,
+ .patch_hypercall = vmx_patch_hypercall,
};
static int __init vmx_init(void)