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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Next gen kvm api


From: Anthony Liguori
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Next gen kvm api
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:52:07 -0600
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On 02/03/2012 12:07 PM, Eric Northup wrote:
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Avi Kivity<address@hidden>  wrote:
[...]

Moving to syscalls avoids these problems, but introduces new ones:

- adding new syscalls is generally frowned upon, and kvm will need several
- syscalls into modules are harder and rarer than into core kernel code
- will need to add a vcpu pointer to task_struct, and a kvm pointer to
mm_struct
- Lost a good place to put access control (permissions on /dev/kvm)
for which user-mode processes can use KVM.

How would the ability to use sys_kvm_* be regulated?

Why should it be regulated?

It's not a finite or privileged resource.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori






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