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authorDominik Dingel <dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2014-04-09 15:13:00 +0400
committerChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>2014-04-22 15:24:32 +0400
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KVM: s390: Exploiting generic userspace interface for cmma
To enable CMMA and to reset its state we use the vm kvm_device ioctls, encapsulating attributes within the KVM_S390_VM_MEM_CTRL group. Signed-off-by: Dominik Dingel <dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
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@@ -8,3 +8,19 @@ and controls.
The groups and attributes per virtual machine, if any, are architecture
specific.
+
+1. GROUP: KVM_S390_VM_MEM_CTRL
+Architectures: s390
+
+1.1. ATTRIBUTE: KVM_S390_VM_MEM_CTRL
+Parameters: none
+Returns: -EBUSY if already a vcpus is defined, otherwise 0
+
+Enables CMMA for the virtual machine
+
+1.2. ATTRIBUTE: KVM_S390_VM_CLR_CMMA
+Parameteres: none
+Returns: 0
+
+Clear the CMMA status for all guest pages, so any pages the guest marked
+as unused are again used any may not be reclaimed by the host.