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diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt index 912b7df8215a..3a9831b72945 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt @@ -4131,6 +4131,34 @@ Parameters: none Allow use of adapter-interruption suppression. Returns: 0 on success; -EBUSY if a VCPU has already been created. +7.11 KVM_CAP_PPC_SMT + +Architectures: ppc +Parameters: vsmt_mode, flags + +Enabling this capability on a VM provides userspace with a way to set +the desired virtual SMT mode (i.e. the number of virtual CPUs per +virtual core). The virtual SMT mode, vsmt_mode, must be a power of 2 +between 1 and 8. On POWER8, vsmt_mode must also be no greater than +the number of threads per subcore for the host. Currently flags must +be 0. A successful call to enable this capability will result in +vsmt_mode being returned when the KVM_CAP_PPC_SMT capability is +subsequently queried for the VM. This capability is only supported by +HV KVM, and can only be set before any VCPUs have been created. +The KVM_CAP_PPC_SMT_POSSIBLE capability indicates which virtual SMT +modes are available. + +7.12 KVM_CAP_PPC_FWNMI + +Architectures: ppc +Parameters: none + +With this capability a machine check exception in the guest address +space will cause KVM to exit the guest with NMI exit reason. This +enables QEMU to build error log and branch to guest kernel registered +machine check handling routine. Without this capability KVM will +branch to guests' 0x200 interrupt vector. + 8. Other capabilities. ---------------------- @@ -4292,3 +4320,12 @@ Currently the following bits are defined for the device_irq_level bitmap: Future versions of kvm may implement additional events. These will get indicated by returning a higher number from KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION and will be listed above. + +8.10 KVM_CAP_PPC_SMT_POSSIBLE + +Architectures: ppc + +Querying this capability returns a bitmap indicating the possible +virtual SMT modes that can be set using KVM_CAP_PPC_SMT. If bit N +(counting from the right) is set, then a virtual SMT mode of 2^N is +available. |