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@@ -1124,10 +1124,14 @@ guest physical address space and must not conflict with any memory slot
or any mmio address. The guest may malfunction if it accesses this memory
region.
+Setting the address to 0 will result in resetting the address to its default
+(0xfffbc000).
+
This ioctl is required on Intel-based hosts. This is needed on Intel hardware
because of a quirk in the virtualization implementation (see the internals
documentation when it pops into existence).
+Fails if any VCPU has already been created.
4.41 KVM_SET_BOOT_CPU_ID
@@ -2897,14 +2901,19 @@ userspace buffer and its length:
struct kvm_s390_irq_state {
__u64 buf;
- __u32 flags;
+ __u32 flags; /* will stay unused for compatibility reasons */
__u32 len;
- __u32 reserved[4];
+ __u32 reserved[4]; /* will stay unused for compatibility reasons */
};
Userspace passes in the above struct and for each pending interrupt a
struct kvm_s390_irq is copied to the provided buffer.
+The structure contains a flags and a reserved field for future extensions. As
+the kernel never checked for flags == 0 and QEMU never pre-zeroed flags and
+reserved, these fields can not be used in the future without breaking
+compatibility.
+
If -ENOBUFS is returned the buffer provided was too small and userspace
may retry with a bigger buffer.
@@ -2928,10 +2937,14 @@ containing a struct kvm_s390_irq_state:
struct kvm_s390_irq_state {
__u64 buf;
+ __u32 flags; /* will stay unused for compatibility reasons */
__u32 len;
- __u32 pad;
+ __u32 reserved[4]; /* will stay unused for compatibility reasons */
};
+The restrictions for flags and reserved apply as well.
+(see KVM_S390_GET_IRQ_STATE)
+
The userspace memory referenced by buf contains a struct kvm_s390_irq
for each interrupt to be injected into the guest.
If one of the interrupts could not be injected for some reason the
@@ -4347,3 +4360,12 @@ This capability indicates that userspace can load HV_X64_MSR_VP_INDEX msr. Its
value is used to denote the target vcpu for a SynIC interrupt. For
compatibilty, KVM initializes this msr to KVM's internal vcpu index. When this
capability is absent, userspace can still query this msr's value.
+
+8.13 KVM_CAP_S390_AIS_MIGRATION
+
+Architectures: s390
+Parameters: none
+
+This capability indicates if the flic device will be able to get/set the
+AIS states for migration via the KVM_DEV_FLIC_AISM_ALL attribute and allows
+to discover this without having to create a flic device.
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