KVM: Create an inode per virtual machine
This avoids having filp->f_op and the corresponding inode->i_fop different,
which is a little unorthodox.
The ioctl list is split into two: global kvm ioctls and per-vm ioctls. A new
ioctl, KVM_CREATE_VM, is used to create VMs and return the VM fd.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
diff --git a/include/linux/kvm.h b/include/linux/kvm.h
index f360459..d6e6635 100644
--- a/include/linux/kvm.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm.h
@@ -224,7 +224,16 @@
#define KVMIO 0xAE
+/*
+ * ioctls for /dev/kvm fds:
+ */
#define KVM_GET_API_VERSION _IO(KVMIO, 1)
+#define KVM_CREATE_VM _IO(KVMIO, 2) /* returns a VM fd */
+#define KVM_GET_MSR_INDEX_LIST _IOWR(KVMIO, 15, struct kvm_msr_list)
+
+/*
+ * ioctls for VM fds
+ */
#define KVM_RUN _IOWR(KVMIO, 2, struct kvm_run)
#define KVM_GET_REGS _IOWR(KVMIO, 3, struct kvm_regs)
#define KVM_SET_REGS _IOW(KVMIO, 4, struct kvm_regs)
@@ -238,6 +247,5 @@
#define KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG _IOW(KVMIO, 12, struct kvm_dirty_log)
#define KVM_GET_MSRS _IOWR(KVMIO, 13, struct kvm_msrs)
#define KVM_SET_MSRS _IOWR(KVMIO, 14, struct kvm_msrs)
-#define KVM_GET_MSR_INDEX_LIST _IOWR(KVMIO, 15, struct kvm_msr_list)
#endif