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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt | 20 |
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt index ab022dcd0911..97ca1940a0dc 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt @@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ KVM_FEATURE_ASYNC_PF_VMEXIT || 10 || paravirtualized async PF VM exit || || can be enabled by setting bit 2 || || when writing to msr 0x4b564d02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +KVM_FEATURE_PV_SEND_IPI || 11 || guest checks this feature bit + || || before using paravirtualized + || || send IPIs. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE_STABLE_BIT || 24 || host will warn if no guest-side || || per-cpu warps are expected in || || kvmclock. diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt index a890529c63ed..da24c138c8d1 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt @@ -121,3 +121,23 @@ compute the CLOCK_REALTIME for its clock, at the same instant. Returns KVM_EOPNOTSUPP if the host does not use TSC clocksource, or if clock type is different than KVM_CLOCK_PAIRING_WALLCLOCK. + +6. KVM_HC_SEND_IPI +------------------------ +Architecture: x86 +Status: active +Purpose: Send IPIs to multiple vCPUs. + +a0: lower part of the bitmap of destination APIC IDs +a1: higher part of the bitmap of destination APIC IDs +a2: the lowest APIC ID in bitmap +a3: APIC ICR + +The hypercall lets a guest send multicast IPIs, with at most 128 +128 destinations per hypercall in 64-bit mode and 64 vCPUs per +hypercall in 32-bit mode. The destinations are represented by a +bitmap contained in the first two arguments (a0 and a1). Bit 0 of +a0 corresponds to the APIC ID in the third argument (a2), bit 1 +corresponds to the APIC ID a2+1, and so on. + +Returns the number of CPUs to which the IPIs were delivered successfully. |