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diff --git a/include/linux/lguest_launcher.h b/include/linux/lguest_launcher.h
index 495203ff221c..acd5b12565cc 100644
--- a/include/linux/lguest_launcher.h
+++ b/include/linux/lguest_launcher.h
@@ -8,52 +8,13 @@
8 * 8 *
9 * The Guest needs devices to do anything useful. Since we don't let it touch 9 * The Guest needs devices to do anything useful. Since we don't let it touch
10 * real devices (think of the damage it could do!) we provide virtual devices. 10 * real devices (think of the damage it could do!) we provide virtual devices.
11 * We could emulate a PCI bus with various devices on it, but that is a fairly 11 * We emulate a PCI bus with virtio devices on it; we used to have our own
12 * complex burden for the Host and suboptimal for the Guest, so we have our own 12 * lguest bus which was far simpler, but this tests the virtio 1.0 standard.
13 * simple lguest bus and we use "virtio" drivers. These drivers need a set of
14 * routines from us which will actually do the virtual I/O, but they handle all
15 * the net/block/console stuff themselves. This means that if we want to add
16 * a new device, we simply need to write a new virtio driver and create support
17 * for it in the Launcher: this code won't need to change.
18 * 13 *
19 * Virtio devices are also used by kvm, so we can simply reuse their optimized 14 * Virtio devices are also used by kvm, so we can simply reuse their optimized
20 * device drivers. And one day when everyone uses virtio, my plan will be 15 * device drivers. And one day when everyone uses virtio, my plan will be
21 * complete. Bwahahahah! 16 * complete. Bwahahahah!
22 *
23 * Devices are described by a simplified ID, a status byte, and some "config"
24 * bytes which describe this device's configuration. This is placed by the
25 * Launcher just above the top of physical memory:
26 */
27struct lguest_device_desc {
28 /* The device type: console, network, disk etc. Type 0 terminates. */
29 __u8 type;
30 /* The number of virtqueues (first in config array) */
31 __u8 num_vq;
32 /*
33 * The number of bytes of feature bits. Multiply by 2: one for host
34 * features and one for Guest acknowledgements.
35 */
36 __u8 feature_len;
37 /* The number of bytes of the config array after virtqueues. */
38 __u8 config_len;
39 /* A status byte, written by the Guest. */
40 __u8 status;
41 __u8 config[0];
42};
43
44/*D:135
45 * This is how we expect the device configuration field for a virtqueue
46 * to be laid out in config space.
47 */ 17 */
48struct lguest_vqconfig {
49 /* The number of entries in the virtio_ring */
50 __u16 num;
51 /* The interrupt we get when something happens. */
52 __u16 irq;
53 /* The page number of the virtio ring for this device. */
54 __u32 pfn;
55};
56/*:*/
57 18
58/* Write command first word is a request. */ 19/* Write command first word is a request. */
59enum lguest_req 20enum lguest_req
@@ -62,12 +23,22 @@ enum lguest_req
62 LHREQ_GETDMA, /* No longer used */ 23 LHREQ_GETDMA, /* No longer used */
63 LHREQ_IRQ, /* + irq */ 24 LHREQ_IRQ, /* + irq */
64 LHREQ_BREAK, /* No longer used */ 25 LHREQ_BREAK, /* No longer used */
65 LHREQ_EVENTFD, /* + address, fd. */ 26 LHREQ_EVENTFD, /* No longer used. */
27 LHREQ_GETREG, /* + offset within struct pt_regs (then read value). */
28 LHREQ_SETREG, /* + offset within struct pt_regs, value. */
29 LHREQ_TRAP, /* + trap number to deliver to guest. */
66}; 30};
67 31
68/* 32/*
69 * The alignment to use between consumer and producer parts of vring. 33 * This is what read() of the lguest fd populates. trap ==
70 * x86 pagesize for historical reasons. 34 * LGUEST_TRAP_ENTRY for an LHCALL_NOTIFY (addr is the
35 * argument), 14 for a page fault in the MMIO region (addr is
36 * the trap address, insn is the instruction), or 13 for a GPF
37 * (insn is the instruction).
71 */ 38 */
72#define LGUEST_VRING_ALIGN 4096 39struct lguest_pending {
40 __u8 trap;
41 __u8 insn[7];
42 __u32 addr;
43};
73#endif /* _LINUX_LGUEST_LAUNCHER */ 44#endif /* _LINUX_LGUEST_LAUNCHER */