KVM: Allow KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION on the vm fd

The KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION is only available on the kvm fd today. Unfortunately
on PPC some of the capabilities change depending on the way a VM was created.

So instead we need a way to expose capabilities as VM ioctl, so that we can
see which VM type we're using (HV or PR). To enable this, add the
KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION ioctl to our vm ioctl portfolio.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
index 884f819e1908..8898caf8c090 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
@@ -148,9 +148,9 @@ of banks, as set via the KVM_X86_SETUP_MCE ioctl.
 
 4.4 KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION
 
-Capability: basic
+Capability: basic, KVM_CAP_CHECK_EXTENSION_VM for vm ioctl
 Architectures: all
-Type: system ioctl
+Type: system ioctl, vm ioctl
 Parameters: extension identifier (KVM_CAP_*)
 Returns: 0 if unsupported; 1 (or some other positive integer) if supported
 
@@ -160,6 +160,9 @@ receives an integer that describes the extension availability.
 Generally 0 means no and 1 means yes, but some extensions may report
 additional information in the integer return value.
 
+Based on their initialization different VMs may have different capabilities.
+It is thus encouraged to use the vm ioctl to query for capabilities (available
+with KVM_CAP_CHECK_EXTENSION_VM on the vm fd)
 
 4.5 KVM_GET_VCPU_MMAP_SIZE