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Commit bcb85c88 authored by Jann Horn's avatar Jann Horn Committed by Paolo Bonzini
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KVM: Documentation: remove VM mmap documentation 



Since commit 80f5b5e7 ("KVM: remove vm mmap method"), the VM mmap
handler is gone. Remove the corresponding documentation.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
parent c24a7be2

Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt

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@@ -110,11 +110,7 @@ Type: system ioctl 
Parameters: machine type identifier (KVM_VM_*)

Returns: a VM fd that can be used to control the new virtual machine.



The new VM has no virtual cpus and no memory.  An mmap() of a VM fd

will access the virtual machine's physical address space; offset zero

corresponds to guest physical address zero.  Use of mmap() on a VM fd

is discouraged if userspace memory allocation (KVM_CAP_USER_MEMORY) is

available.

The new VM has no virtual cpus and no memory.

You probably want to use 0 as machine type.



In order to create user controlled virtual machines on S390, check