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1 #ifndef _LINUX_LGUEST_LAUNCHER
2 #define _LINUX_LGUEST_LAUNCHER
3 /* Everything the "lguest" userspace program needs to know. */
4 #include <linux/types.h>
5
6 /*D:010
7 * Drivers
8 *
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.
11 * We could emulate a PCI bus with various devices on it, but that is a fairly
12 * complex burden for the Host and suboptimal for the Guest, so we have our own
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 *
19 * Devices are described by a simplified ID, a status byte, and some "config"
20 * bytes which describe this device's configuration. This is placed by the
21 * Launcher just above the top of physical memory:
22 */
23 struct lguest_device_desc {
24 /* The device type: console, network, disk etc. Type 0 terminates. */
25 __u8 type;
26 /* The number of bytes of the config array. */
27 __u8 config_len;
28 /* A status byte, written by the Guest. */
29 __u8 status;
30 __u8 config[0];
31 };
32
33 /*D:135 This is how we expect the device configuration field for a virtqueue
34 * (type VIRTIO_CONFIG_F_VIRTQUEUE) to be laid out: */
35 struct lguest_vqconfig {
36 /* The number of entries in the virtio_ring */
37 __u16 num;
38 /* The interrupt we get when something happens. */
39 __u16 irq;
40 /* The page number of the virtio ring for this device. */
41 __u32 pfn;
42 };
43 /*:*/
44
45 /* Write command first word is a request. */
46 enum lguest_req
47 {
48 LHREQ_INITIALIZE, /* + base, pfnlimit, pgdir, start */
49 LHREQ_GETDMA, /* No longer used */
50 LHREQ_IRQ, /* + irq */
51 LHREQ_BREAK, /* + on/off flag (on blocks until someone does off) */
52 };
53 #endif /* _LINUX_LGUEST_LAUNCHER */