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authorAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2010-06-21 11:44:20 +0300
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2010-08-01 10:47:00 +0300
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KVM: Remove memory alias support
As advertised in feature-removal-schedule.txt. Equivalent support is provided by overlapping memory regions. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/kvm/api.txt12
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/kvm/api.txt
index ffba03f55bdf..7e415943a11e 100644
--- a/Documentation/kvm/api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kvm/api.txt
@@ -226,17 +226,7 @@ Type: vm ioctl
Parameters: struct kvm_memory_alias (in)
Returns: 0 (success), -1 (error)
-struct kvm_memory_alias {
- __u32 slot; /* this has a different namespace than memory slots */
- __u32 flags;
- __u64 guest_phys_addr;
- __u64 memory_size;
- __u64 target_phys_addr;
-};
-
-Defines a guest physical address space region as an alias to another
-region. Useful for aliased address, for example the VGA low memory
-window. Should not be used with userspace memory.
+This ioctl is obsolete and has been removed.
4.9 KVM_RUN
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