KVM: Document replacements for KVM_EXIT_HYPERCALL
authorAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Thu, 1 Apr 2010 11:39:21 +0000 (14:39 +0300)
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Mon, 17 May 2010 09:17:22 +0000 (12:17 +0300)
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Documentation/kvm/api.txt

index 6f36235..baa8fde 100644 (file)
@@ -974,7 +974,9 @@ pending operations.
                        __u32 pad;
                } hypercall;
 
-Unused.
+Unused.  This was once used for 'hypercall to userspace'.  To implement
+such functionality, use KVM_EXIT_IO (x86) or KVM_EXIT_MMIO (all except s390).
+Note KVM_EXIT_IO is significantly faster than KVM_EXIT_MMIO.
 
                /* KVM_EXIT_TPR_ACCESS */
                struct {