kvm: add kvm_device_supported() helper function

This can be used when probing whether KVM support specific device. Here,
a raw vmfd is used.

Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Sergey Fedorov <serge.fdrv@gmail.com>
Message-id: 1458788142-17509-4-git-send-email-peterx@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kvm-all.c b/kvm-all.c
index 44c0464..e7b66df 100644
--- a/kvm-all.c
+++ b/kvm-all.c
@@ -2339,6 +2339,21 @@ int kvm_create_device(KVMState *s, uint64_t type, bool test)
     return test ? 0 : create_dev.fd;
 }
 
+bool kvm_device_supported(int vmfd, uint64_t type)
+{
+    struct kvm_create_device create_dev = {
+        .type = type,
+        .fd = -1,
+        .flags = KVM_CREATE_DEVICE_TEST,
+    };
+
+    if (ioctl(vmfd, KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION, KVM_CAP_DEVICE_CTRL) <= 0) {
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    return (ioctl(vmfd, KVM_CREATE_DEVICE, &create_dev) >= 0);
+}
+
 int kvm_set_one_reg(CPUState *cs, uint64_t id, void *source)
 {
     struct kvm_one_reg reg;