kvm: add capability for any-length ioeventfds
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
index e3e9c41..34cc068 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
@@ -1604,7 +1604,7 @@
struct kvm_ioeventfd {
__u64 datamatch;
__u64 addr; /* legal pio/mmio address */
- __u32 len; /* 1, 2, 4, or 8 bytes */
+ __u32 len; /* 0, 1, 2, 4, or 8 bytes */
__s32 fd;
__u32 flags;
__u8 pad[36];
@@ -1627,6 +1627,10 @@
For virtio-ccw devices, addr contains the subchannel id and datamatch the
virtqueue index.
+With KVM_CAP_IOEVENTFD_ANY_LENGTH, a zero length ioeventfd is allowed, and
+the kernel will ignore the length of guest write and may get a faster vmexit.
+The speedup may only apply to specific architectures, but the ioeventfd will
+work anyway.
4.60 KVM_DIRTY_TLB