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| author | Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org> | 2019-09-27 13:54:07 +0200 |
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| committer | Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org> | 2019-10-22 16:29:02 +1100 |
| commit | efe5ddcae496b7c7307805d31815df23ba69bf7c (patch) | |
| tree | 34417d20e68a6ae70435a7b6651d70972c3fed1b /Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/xics.txt | |
| parent | 062cfab7069fcb55d77ad5552f29e24178728fa2 (diff) | |
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: XIVE: Allow userspace to set the # of VPs
Add a new attribute to both XIVE and XICS-on-XIVE KVM devices so that
userspace can tell how many interrupt servers it needs. If a VM needs
less than the current default of KVM_MAX_VCPUS (2048), we can allocate
less VPs in OPAL. Combined with a core stride (VSMT) that matches the
number of guest threads per core, this may substantially increases the
number of VMs that can run concurrently with an in-kernel XIVE device.
Since the legacy XIVE KVM device is exposed to userspace through the
XICS KVM API, a new attribute group is added to it for this purpose.
While here, fix the syntax of the existing KVM_DEV_XICS_GRP_SOURCES
in the XICS documentation.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/xics.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/xics.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/xics.txt b/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/xics.txt index 42864935ac5d..423332dda7bc 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/xics.txt +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/xics.txt @@ -3,9 +3,19 @@ XICS interrupt controller Device type supported: KVM_DEV_TYPE_XICS Groups: - KVM_DEV_XICS_SOURCES + 1. KVM_DEV_XICS_GRP_SOURCES Attributes: One per interrupt source, indexed by the source number. + 2. KVM_DEV_XICS_GRP_CTRL + Attributes: + 2.1 KVM_DEV_XICS_NR_SERVERS (write only) + The kvm_device_attr.addr points to a __u32 value which is the number of + interrupt server numbers (ie, highest possible vcpu id plus one). + Errors: + -EINVAL: Value greater than KVM_MAX_VCPU_ID. + -EFAULT: Invalid user pointer for attr->addr. + -EBUSY: A vcpu is already connected to the device. + This device emulates the XICS (eXternal Interrupt Controller Specification) defined in PAPR. The XICS has a set of interrupt sources, each identified by a 20-bit source number, and a set of @@ -38,7 +48,7 @@ least-significant end of the word: Each source has 64 bits of state that can be read and written using the KVM_GET_DEVICE_ATTR and KVM_SET_DEVICE_ATTR ioctls, specifying the -KVM_DEV_XICS_SOURCES attribute group, with the attribute number being +KVM_DEV_XICS_GRP_SOURCES attribute group, with the attribute number being the interrupt source number. The 64 bit state word has the following bitfields, starting from the least-significant end of the word: |