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diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst index 27d945d5b4e4..081ef09d3148 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst @@ -6214,6 +6214,42 @@ superset of the features supported by the system. See KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION. +4.141 KVM_SET_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES +------------------------------- + +:Capability: KVM_CAP_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES +:Architectures: x86 +:Type: vm ioctl +:Parameters: struct kvm_memory_attributes (in) +:Returns: 0 on success, <0 on error + +KVM_SET_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES allows userspace to set memory attributes for a range +of guest physical memory. + +:: + + struct kvm_memory_attributes { + __u64 address; + __u64 size; + __u64 attributes; + __u64 flags; + }; + + #define KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE (1ULL << 3) + +The address and size must be page aligned. The supported attributes can be +retrieved via ioctl(KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION) on KVM_CAP_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES. If +executed on a VM, KVM_CAP_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES precisely returns the attributes +supported by that VM. If executed at system scope, KVM_CAP_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES +returns all attributes supported by KVM. The only attribute defined at this +time is KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE, which marks the associated gfn as being +guest private memory. + +Note, there is no "get" API. Userspace is responsible for explicitly tracking +the state of a gfn/page as needed. + +The "flags" field is reserved for future extensions and must be '0'. + 5. The kvm_run structure ======================== |