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authorDexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>2017-08-26 07:52:43 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-08-29 01:38:18 +0300
commitae0078fcf0a5eb3a8623bfb5f988262e0911fdb9 (patch)
treec7c3f444a538885333f157491f1c19cb19bde757 /net/vmw_vsock/Kconfig
parent7cadf2cbe8051dd43cb340d02d0d30960f061ac2 (diff)
downloadlinux-ae0078fcf0a5eb3a8623bfb5f988262e0911fdb9.tar.xz
hv_sock: implements Hyper-V transport for Virtual Sockets (AF_VSOCK)
Hyper-V Sockets (hv_sock) supplies a byte-stream based communication mechanism between the host and the guest. It uses VMBus ringbuffer as the transportation layer. With hv_sock, applications between the host (Windows 10, Windows Server 2016 or newer) and the guest can talk with each other using the traditional socket APIs. More info about Hyper-V Sockets is available here: "Make your own integration services": https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/user-guide/make-integration-service The patch implements the necessary support in Linux guest by introducing a new vsock transport for AF_VSOCK. Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com> Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com> Cc: Andy King <acking@vmware.com> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com> Cc: George Zhang <georgezhang@vmware.com> Cc: Jorgen Hansen <jhansen@vmware.com> Cc: Reilly Grant <grantr@vmware.com> Cc: Asias He <asias@redhat.com> Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Cc: Cathy Avery <cavery@redhat.com> Cc: Rolf Neugebauer <rolf.neugebauer@docker.com> Cc: Marcelo Cerri <marcelo.cerri@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/Kconfig b/net/vmw_vsock/Kconfig
index 8831e7c42167..a24369d175fd 100644
--- a/net/vmw_vsock/Kconfig
+++ b/net/vmw_vsock/Kconfig
@@ -46,3 +46,15 @@ config VIRTIO_VSOCKETS_COMMON
This option is selected by any driver which needs to access
the virtio_vsock. The module will be called
vmw_vsock_virtio_transport_common.
+
+config HYPERV_VSOCKETS
+ tristate "Hyper-V transport for Virtual Sockets"
+ depends on VSOCKETS && HYPERV
+ help
+ This module implements a Hyper-V transport for Virtual Sockets.
+
+ Enable this transport if your Virtual Machine host supports Virtual
+ Sockets over Hyper-V VMBus.
+
+ To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
+ called hv_sock. If unsure, say N.