Re: [PATCH v3] Drivers: hv: ioctl for self targeted passthrough hvcalls

From: Anirudh Rayabharam
Date: Mon Nov 24 2025 - 09:29:18 EST


On Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 06:55:59AM +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 05:17:08PM +0000, Anirudh Rayabharam wrote:
> > From: Anirudh Rayabharam (Microsoft) <anirudh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Allow MSHV_ROOT_HVCALL IOCTL on the /dev/mshv fd. This IOCTL would
> > execute a passthrough hypercall targeting the root/parent partition
> > i.e. HV_PARTITION_ID_SELF.
> >
> > This will be useful for the VMM to query things like supported
> > synthetic processor features, supported VMM capabiliites etc.
> >
> > Since hypercalls targeting the host partition could potentially perform
> > privileged operations, allow only a limited set of hypercalls. To begin
> > with, allow only:
> >
> > HVCALL_GET_PARTITION_PROPERTY
> > HVCALL_GET_PARTITION_PROPERTY_EX
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Anirudh Rayabharam (Microsoft) <anirudh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Applied to hyperv-next.
>
> I dropped one "inline" keyword that was not needed and modified the
> subject prefix to be "mshv".

Thanks!

Anirudh.

>
> Wei