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linux-2.6/include/linux/lguest_launcher.h
Rusty Russell 5dac051bc6 lguest: remove obsolete LHREQ_BREAK call
We no longer need an efficient mechanism to force the Guest back into
host userspace, as each device is serviced without bothering the main
Guest process (aka. the Launcher).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:27:11 +09:30

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#ifndef _LINUX_LGUEST_LAUNCHER
#define _LINUX_LGUEST_LAUNCHER
/* Everything the "lguest" userspace program needs to know. */
#include <linux/types.h>
/*D:010
* Drivers
*
* The Guest needs devices to do anything useful. Since we don't let it touch
* real devices (think of the damage it could do!) we provide virtual devices.
* We could emulate a PCI bus with various devices on it, but that is a fairly
* complex burden for the Host and suboptimal for the Guest, so we have our own
* simple lguest bus and we use "virtio" drivers. These drivers need a set of
* routines from us which will actually do the virtual I/O, but they handle all
* the net/block/console stuff themselves. This means that if we want to add
* a new device, we simply need to write a new virtio driver and create support
* for it in the Launcher: this code won't need to change.
*
* Virtio devices are also used by kvm, so we can simply reuse their optimized
* device drivers. And one day when everyone uses virtio, my plan will be
* complete. Bwahahahah!
*
* Devices are described by a simplified ID, a status byte, and some "config"
* bytes which describe this device's configuration. This is placed by the
* Launcher just above the top of physical memory:
*/
struct lguest_device_desc {
/* The device type: console, network, disk etc. Type 0 terminates. */
__u8 type;
/* The number of virtqueues (first in config array) */
__u8 num_vq;
/* The number of bytes of feature bits. Multiply by 2: one for host
* features and one for Guest acknowledgements. */
__u8 feature_len;
/* The number of bytes of the config array after virtqueues. */
__u8 config_len;
/* A status byte, written by the Guest. */
__u8 status;
__u8 config[0];
};
/*D:135 This is how we expect the device configuration field for a virtqueue
* to be laid out in config space. */
struct lguest_vqconfig {
/* The number of entries in the virtio_ring */
__u16 num;
/* The interrupt we get when something happens. */
__u16 irq;
/* The page number of the virtio ring for this device. */
__u32 pfn;
};
/*:*/
/* Write command first word is a request. */
enum lguest_req
{
LHREQ_INITIALIZE, /* + base, pfnlimit, start */
LHREQ_GETDMA, /* No longer used */
LHREQ_IRQ, /* + irq */
LHREQ_BREAK, /* No longer used */
LHREQ_EVENTFD, /* + address, fd. */
};
/* The alignment to use between consumer and producer parts of vring.
* x86 pagesize for historical reasons. */
#define LGUEST_VRING_ALIGN 4096
#endif /* _LINUX_LGUEST_LAUNCHER */