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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/s390_flic.txt | 14 |
2 files changed, 29 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt index 4d0542c5206b..a4482cce4bae 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt @@ -199,8 +199,8 @@ Type: vm ioctl Parameters: vcpu id (apic id on x86) Returns: vcpu fd on success, -1 on error -This API adds a vcpu to a virtual machine. The vcpu id is a small integer -in the range [0, max_vcpus). +This API adds a vcpu to a virtual machine. No more than max_vcpus may be added. +The vcpu id is an integer in the range [0, max_vcpu_id). The recommended max_vcpus value can be retrieved using the KVM_CAP_NR_VCPUS of the KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION ioctl() at run-time. @@ -212,6 +212,12 @@ cpus max. If the KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPUS does not exist, you should assume that max_vcpus is same as the value returned from KVM_CAP_NR_VCPUS. +The maximum possible value for max_vcpu_id can be retrieved using the +KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPU_ID of the KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION ioctl() at run-time. + +If the KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPU_ID does not exist, you should assume that max_vcpu_id +is the same as the value returned from KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPUS. + On powerpc using book3s_hv mode, the vcpus are mapped onto virtual threads in one or more virtual CPU cores. (This is because the hardware requires all the hardware threads in a CPU core to be in the @@ -3788,6 +3794,14 @@ a KVM_EXIT_IOAPIC_EOI vmexit will be reported to userspace. Fails if VCPU has already been created, or if the irqchip is already in the kernel (i.e. KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP has already been called). +7.6 KVM_CAP_S390_RI + +Architectures: s390 +Parameters: none + +Allows use of runtime-instrumentation introduced with zEC12 processor. +Will return -EINVAL if the machine does not support runtime-instrumentation. +Will return -EBUSY if a VCPU has already been created. 8. Other capabilities. ---------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/s390_flic.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/s390_flic.txt index e3e314cb83e8..6b0e115301c8 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/s390_flic.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/s390_flic.txt @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ FLIC provides support to - add interrupts (KVM_DEV_FLIC_ENQUEUE) - inspect currently pending interrupts (KVM_FLIC_GET_ALL_IRQS) - purge all pending floating interrupts (KVM_DEV_FLIC_CLEAR_IRQS) +- purge one pending floating I/O interrupt (KVM_DEV_FLIC_CLEAR_IO_IRQ) - enable/disable for the guest transparent async page faults - register and modify adapter interrupt sources (KVM_DEV_FLIC_ADAPTER_*) @@ -40,6 +41,11 @@ Groups: Simply deletes all elements from the list of currently pending floating interrupts. No interrupts are injected into the guest. + KVM_DEV_FLIC_CLEAR_IO_IRQ + Deletes one (if any) I/O interrupt for a subchannel identified by the + subsystem identification word passed via the buffer specified by + attr->addr (address) and attr->attr (length). + KVM_DEV_FLIC_APF_ENABLE Enables async page faults for the guest. So in case of a major page fault the host is allowed to handle this async and continues the guest. @@ -68,7 +74,7 @@ struct kvm_s390_io_adapter { KVM_DEV_FLIC_ADAPTER_MODIFY Modifies attributes of an existing I/O adapter interrupt source. Takes - a kvm_s390_io_adapter_req specifiying the adapter and the operation: + a kvm_s390_io_adapter_req specifying the adapter and the operation: struct kvm_s390_io_adapter_req { __u32 id; @@ -94,3 +100,9 @@ struct kvm_s390_io_adapter_req { KVM_S390_IO_ADAPTER_UNMAP release a userspace page for the translated address specified in addr from the list of mappings + +Note: The KVM_SET_DEVICE_ATTR/KVM_GET_DEVICE_ATTR device ioctls executed on +FLIC with an unknown group or attribute gives the error code EINVAL (instead of +ENXIO, as specified in the API documentation). It is not possible to conclude +that a FLIC operation is unavailable based on the error code resulting from a +usage attempt. |