From 10474ae8945ce08622fd1f3464e55bd817bf2376 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Graf Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:37:46 +0200 Subject: KVM: Activate Virtualization On Demand X86 CPUs need to have some magic happening to enable the virtualization extensions on them. This magic can result in unpleasant results for users, like blocking other VMMs from working (vmx) or using invalid TLB entries (svm). Currently KVM activates virtualization when the respective kernel module is loaded. This blocks us from autoloading KVM modules without breaking other VMMs. To circumvent this problem at least a bit, this patch introduces on demand activation of virtualization. This means, that instead virtualization is enabled on creation of the first virtual machine and disabled on destruction of the last one. So using this, KVM can be easily autoloaded, while keeping other hypervisors usable. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity --- include/linux/kvm_host.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/kvm_host.h') diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h index c0a1cc35f080..b985a29d8175 100644 --- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h +++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h @@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_setup(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu); void kvm_arch_vcpu_destroy(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu); int kvm_arch_vcpu_reset(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu); -void kvm_arch_hardware_enable(void *garbage); +int kvm_arch_hardware_enable(void *garbage); void kvm_arch_hardware_disable(void *garbage); int kvm_arch_hardware_setup(void); void kvm_arch_hardware_unsetup(void); -- cgit v1.2.3