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authorAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2012-06-06 15:31:34 +0300
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2012-06-06 15:31:34 +0300
commit25e531a988ea5a64bd97a72dc9d3c65ad5850120 (patch)
tree5e5b7450fe08e4818a49b4248c9400a08b4cc463 /Documentation
parent79f702a6d18c75760c68202007265b2310d6f44e (diff)
parentd35b1075afc0172caa44b57b56a2b9b57e06d32e (diff)
Merge branch 'for-upstream' of git://github.com/agraf/linux-2.6 into next
Alex says: "Changes this time include: - Generalize KVM_GUEST support to overall ePAPR code - Fix reset for Book3S HV - Fix machine check deferral when CONFIG_KVM_GUEST=y - Add support for BookE register DECAR" * 'for-upstream' of git://github.com/agraf/linux-2.6: KVM: PPC: Not optimizing MSR_CE and MSR_ME with paravirt. KVM: PPC: booke: Added DECAR support KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make the guest hash table size configurable KVM: PPC: Factor out guest epapr initialization Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt36
-rw-r--r--Documentation/virtual/kvm/ppc-pv.txt2
2 files changed, 36 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
index 930126698a0..310fe508d9c 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
@@ -1930,6 +1930,42 @@ The "pte_enc" field provides a value that can OR'ed into the hash
PTE's RPN field (ie, it needs to be shifted left by 12 to OR it
into the hash PTE second double word).
+
+4.75 KVM_PPC_ALLOCATE_HTAB
+
+Capability: KVM_CAP_PPC_ALLOC_HTAB
+Architectures: powerpc
+Type: vm ioctl
+Parameters: Pointer to u32 containing hash table order (in/out)
+Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
+
+This requests the host kernel to allocate an MMU hash table for a
+guest using the PAPR paravirtualization interface. This only does
+anything if the kernel is configured to use the Book 3S HV style of
+virtualization. Otherwise the capability doesn't exist and the ioctl
+returns an ENOTTY error. The rest of this description assumes Book 3S
+HV.
+
+There must be no vcpus running when this ioctl is called; if there
+are, it will do nothing and return an EBUSY error.
+
+The parameter is a pointer to a 32-bit unsigned integer variable
+containing the order (log base 2) of the desired size of the hash
+table, which must be between 18 and 46. On successful return from the
+ioctl, it will have been updated with the order of the hash table that
+was allocated.
+
+If no hash table has been allocated when any vcpu is asked to run
+(with the KVM_RUN ioctl), the host kernel will allocate a
+default-sized hash table (16 MB).
+
+If this ioctl is called when a hash table has already been allocated,
+the kernel will clear out the existing hash table (zero all HPTEs) and
+return the hash table order in the parameter. (If the guest is using
+the virtualized real-mode area (VRMA) facility, the kernel will
+re-create the VMRA HPTEs on the next KVM_RUN of any vcpu.)
+
+
5. The kvm_run structure
------------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/ppc-pv.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/ppc-pv.txt
index 6e7c3705093..4911cf95c67 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/ppc-pv.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/ppc-pv.txt
@@ -109,8 +109,6 @@ The following bits are safe to be set inside the guest:
MSR_EE
MSR_RI
- MSR_CR
- MSR_ME
If any other bit changes in the MSR, please still use mtmsr(d).