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Commit dc8eeef7 authored by Andra Paraschiv's avatar Andra Paraschiv Committed by Jakub Kicinski
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vm_sockets: Add flags field in the vsock address data structure



vsock enables communication between virtual machines and the host they
are running on. With the multi transport support (guest->host and
host->guest), nested VMs can also use vsock channels for communication.

In addition to this, by default, all the vsock packets are forwarded to
the host, if no host->guest transport is loaded. This behavior can be
implicitly used for enabling vsock communication between sibling VMs.

Add a flags field in the vsock address data structure that can be used
to explicitly mark the vsock connection as being targeted for a certain
type of communication. This way, can distinguish between different use
cases such as nested VMs and sibling VMs.

This field can be set when initializing the vsock address variable used
for the connect() call.

Changelog

v3 -> v4

* Update the size of "svm_flags" field to be 1 byte instead of 2 bytes.

v2 -> v3

* Add "svm_flags" as a new field, not reusing "svm_reserved1".

v1 -> v2

* Update the field name to "svm_flags".
* Split the current patch in 2 patches.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndra Paraschiv <andraprs@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarStefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent ae0b04b2
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