KVM: Allow KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION on the vm fd
The KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION is only available on the kvm fd today. Unfortunately
on PPC some of the capabilities change depending on the way a VM was created.
So instead we need a way to expose capabilities as VM ioctl, so that we can
see which VM type we're using (HV or PR). To enable this, add the
KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION ioctl to our vm ioctl portfolio.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
index 884f819..8898caf 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
@@ -148,9 +148,9 @@
4.4 KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION
-Capability: basic
+Capability: basic, KVM_CAP_CHECK_EXTENSION_VM for vm ioctl
Architectures: all
-Type: system ioctl
+Type: system ioctl, vm ioctl
Parameters: extension identifier (KVM_CAP_*)
Returns: 0 if unsupported; 1 (or some other positive integer) if supported
@@ -160,6 +160,9 @@
Generally 0 means no and 1 means yes, but some extensions may report
additional information in the integer return value.
+Based on their initialization different VMs may have different capabilities.
+It is thus encouraged to use the vm ioctl to query for capabilities (available
+with KVM_CAP_CHECK_EXTENSION_VM on the vm fd)
4.5 KVM_GET_VCPU_MMAP_SIZE