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diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt index da3943586a2b..bc78652b0d07 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt @@ -3060,6 +3060,38 @@ an implementation for these despite the in kernel acceleration. This capability is always enabled. +4.98 KVM_CREATE_SPAPR_TCE_64 + +Capability: KVM_CAP_SPAPR_TCE_64 +Architectures: powerpc +Type: vm ioctl +Parameters: struct kvm_create_spapr_tce_64 (in) +Returns: file descriptor for manipulating the created TCE table + +This is an extension for KVM_CAP_SPAPR_TCE which only supports 32bit +windows, described in 4.62 KVM_CREATE_SPAPR_TCE + +This capability uses extended struct in ioctl interface: + +/* for KVM_CAP_SPAPR_TCE_64 */ +struct kvm_create_spapr_tce_64 { + __u64 liobn; + __u32 page_shift; + __u32 flags; + __u64 offset; /* in pages */ + __u64 size; /* in pages */ +}; + +The aim of extension is to support an additional bigger DMA window with +a variable page size. +KVM_CREATE_SPAPR_TCE_64 receives a 64bit window size, an IOMMU page shift and +a bus offset of the corresponding DMA window, @size and @offset are numbers +of IOMMU pages. + +@flags are not used at the moment. + +The rest of functionality is identical to KVM_CREATE_SPAPR_TCE. + 5. The kvm_run structure ------------------------ |