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authorPan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2016-11-02 12:08:34 +0300
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-11-22 14:48:07 +0300
commit4ec6e863625625a54f527464ab91ce1a1cb16c42 (patch)
treef81e04d7e244705057af567bbee4fc58a9db8d0b /include/linux/kvm_host.h
parent446f3dc8cc0af59259c6c8b898726fae7ed2c055 (diff)
downloadlinux-4ec6e863625625a54f527464ab91ce1a1cb16c42.tar.xz
kvm: Introduce kvm_write_guest_offset_cached()
It allows us to update some status or field of a structure partially. We can also save a kvm_read_guest_cached() call if we just update one fild of the struct regardless of its current value. Signed-off-by: Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: David.Laight@ACULAB.COM Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com Cc: borntraeger@de.ibm.com Cc: bsingharora@gmail.com Cc: dave@stgolabs.net Cc: jgross@suse.com Cc: kernellwp@gmail.com Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: rkrcmar@redhat.com Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: will.deacon@arm.com Cc: xen-devel-request@lists.xenproject.org Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478077718-37424-8-git-send-email-xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com [ Typo fixes. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/kvm_host.h')
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
index 01c0b9cc3915..6f0023797b33 100644
--- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
@@ -645,6 +645,8 @@ int kvm_write_guest(struct kvm *kvm, gpa_t gpa, const void *data,
unsigned long len);
int kvm_write_guest_cached(struct kvm *kvm, struct gfn_to_hva_cache *ghc,
void *data, unsigned long len);
+int kvm_write_guest_offset_cached(struct kvm *kvm, struct gfn_to_hva_cache *ghc,
+ void *data, int offset, unsigned long len);
int kvm_gfn_to_hva_cache_init(struct kvm *kvm, struct gfn_to_hva_cache *ghc,
gpa_t gpa, unsigned long len);
int kvm_clear_guest_page(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn, int offset, int len);