KVM: Add guest mode signal mask

Allow a special signal mask to be used while executing in guest mode.  This
allows signals to be used to interrupt a vcpu without requiring signal
delivery to a userspace handler, which is quite expensive.  Userspace still
receives -EINTR and can get the signal via sigwait().

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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Avi Kivity 2007-03-05 19:46:05 +02:00
parent 6722c51c51
commit 1961d276c8
3 changed files with 51 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -234,6 +234,12 @@ struct kvm_cpuid {
struct kvm_cpuid_entry entries[0];
};
/* for KVM_SET_SIGNAL_MASK */
struct kvm_signal_mask {
__u32 len;
__u8 sigset[0];
};
#define KVMIO 0xAE
/*
@ -273,5 +279,6 @@ struct kvm_cpuid {
#define KVM_GET_MSRS _IOWR(KVMIO, 0x88, struct kvm_msrs)
#define KVM_SET_MSRS _IOW(KVMIO, 0x89, struct kvm_msrs)
#define KVM_SET_CPUID _IOW(KVMIO, 0x8a, struct kvm_cpuid)
#define KVM_SET_SIGNAL_MASK _IOW(KVMIO, 0x8b, struct kvm_signal_mask)
#endif