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diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt index 68cda1fc3d52..beae3fde075e 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt @@ -148,9 +148,9 @@ of banks, as set via the KVM_X86_SETUP_MCE ioctl. 4.4 KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION -Capability: basic +Capability: basic, KVM_CAP_CHECK_EXTENSION_VM for vm ioctl Architectures: all -Type: system ioctl +Type: system ioctl, vm ioctl Parameters: extension identifier (KVM_CAP_*) Returns: 0 if unsupported; 1 (or some other positive integer) if supported @@ -160,6 +160,9 @@ receives an integer that describes the extension availability. Generally 0 means no and 1 means yes, but some extensions may report additional information in the integer return value. +Based on their initialization different VMs may have different capabilities. +It is thus encouraged to use the vm ioctl to query for capabilities (available +with KVM_CAP_CHECK_EXTENSION_VM on the vm fd) 4.5 KVM_GET_VCPU_MMAP_SIZE @@ -1892,7 +1895,8 @@ registers, find a list below: PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_PID | 64 PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_ACOP | 64 PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_VRSAVE | 32 - PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_LPCR | 64 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_LPCR | 32 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_LPCR_64 | 64 PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_PPR | 64 PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_ARCH_COMPAT | 32 PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_DABRX | 32 @@ -2677,8 +2681,8 @@ The 'data' member contains, in its first 'len' bytes, the value as it would appear if the VCPU performed a load or store of the appropriate width directly to the byte array. -NOTE: For KVM_EXIT_IO, KVM_EXIT_MMIO, KVM_EXIT_OSI, KVM_EXIT_DCR, - KVM_EXIT_PAPR and KVM_EXIT_EPR the corresponding +NOTE: For KVM_EXIT_IO, KVM_EXIT_MMIO, KVM_EXIT_OSI, KVM_EXIT_PAPR and + KVM_EXIT_EPR the corresponding operations are complete (and guest state is consistent) only after userspace has re-entered the kernel with KVM_RUN. The kernel side will first finish incomplete operations and then check for pending signals. Userspace @@ -2749,7 +2753,7 @@ Principles of Operation Book in the Chapter for Dynamic Address Translation __u8 is_write; } dcr; -powerpc specific. +Deprecated - was used for 440 KVM. /* KVM_EXIT_OSI */ struct { @@ -2931,8 +2935,8 @@ The fields in each entry are defined as follows: this function/index combination -6. Capabilities that can be enabled ------------------------------------ +6. Capabilities that can be enabled on vCPUs +-------------------------------------------- There are certain capabilities that change the behavior of the virtual CPU or the virtual machine when enabled. To enable them, please see section 4.37. @@ -3091,3 +3095,43 @@ Parameters: none This capability enables the in-kernel irqchip for s390. Please refer to "4.24 KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP" for details. + +7. Capabilities that can be enabled on VMs +------------------------------------------ + +There are certain capabilities that change the behavior of the virtual +machine when enabled. To enable them, please see section 4.37. Below +you can find a list of capabilities and what their effect on the VM +is when enabling them. + +The following information is provided along with the description: + + Architectures: which instruction set architectures provide this ioctl. + x86 includes both i386 and x86_64. + + Parameters: what parameters are accepted by the capability. + + Returns: the return value. General error numbers (EBADF, ENOMEM, EINVAL) + are not detailed, but errors with specific meanings are. + + +7.1 KVM_CAP_PPC_ENABLE_HCALL + +Architectures: ppc +Parameters: args[0] is the sPAPR hcall number + args[1] is 0 to disable, 1 to enable in-kernel handling + +This capability controls whether individual sPAPR hypercalls (hcalls) +get handled by the kernel or not. Enabling or disabling in-kernel +handling of an hcall is effective across the VM. On creation, an +initial set of hcalls are enabled for in-kernel handling, which +consists of those hcalls for which in-kernel handlers were implemented +before this capability was implemented. If disabled, the kernel will +not to attempt to handle the hcall, but will always exit to userspace +to handle it. Note that it may not make sense to enable some and +disable others of a group of related hcalls, but KVM does not prevent +userspace from doing that. + +If the hcall number specified is not one that has an in-kernel +implementation, the KVM_ENABLE_CAP ioctl will fail with an EINVAL +error. |