[RFC PATCH v4 6/6] kvmppc: Support reset of secure guest

Paul Mackerras paulus at ozlabs.org
Mon Jun 17 14:06:32 AEST 2019


On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 12:19:33PM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote:
> Add support for reset of secure guest via a new ioctl KVM_PPC_SVM_OFF.
> This ioctl will be issued by QEMU during reset and in this ioctl,
> we ask UV to terminate the guest via UV_SVM_TERMINATE ucall,
> reinitialize guest's partitioned scoped page tables and release all
> HMM pages of the secure guest.
> 
> After these steps, guest is ready to issue UV_ESM call once again
> to switch to secure mode.

Since you are adding a new KVM ioctl, you need to add a description of
it to Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt.

Paul.


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