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-rw-r--r--Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt40
-rw-r--r--Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt2
2 files changed, 34 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
index 7610eaa4d491..7a943c23db1c 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
@@ -68,9 +68,12 @@ description:
Capability: which KVM extension provides this ioctl. Can be 'basic',
which means that is will be provided by any kernel that supports
- API version 12 (see section 4.1), or a KVM_CAP_xyz constant, which
+ API version 12 (see section 4.1), a KVM_CAP_xyz constant, which
means availability needs to be checked with KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION
- (see section 4.4).
+ (see section 4.4), or 'none' which means that while not all kernels
+ support this ioctl, there's no capability bit to check its
+ availability: for kernels that don't support the ioctl,
+ the ioctl returns -ENOTTY.
Architectures: which instruction set architectures provide this ioctl.
x86 includes both i386 and x86_64.
@@ -1257,7 +1260,7 @@ The flags bitmap is defined as:
4.48 KVM_ASSIGN_PCI_DEVICE
-Capability: KVM_CAP_DEVICE_ASSIGNMENT
+Capability: none
Architectures: x86 ia64
Type: vm ioctl
Parameters: struct kvm_assigned_pci_dev (in)
@@ -1298,10 +1301,16 @@ Only PCI header type 0 devices with PCI BAR resources are supported by
device assignment. The user requesting this ioctl must have read/write
access to the PCI sysfs resource files associated with the device.
+Errors:
+ ENOTTY: kernel does not support this ioctl
+
+ Other error conditions may be defined by individual device types or
+ have their standard meanings.
+
4.49 KVM_DEASSIGN_PCI_DEVICE
-Capability: KVM_CAP_DEVICE_DEASSIGNMENT
+Capability: none
Architectures: x86 ia64
Type: vm ioctl
Parameters: struct kvm_assigned_pci_dev (in)
@@ -1309,9 +1318,14 @@ Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
Ends PCI device assignment, releasing all associated resources.
-See KVM_CAP_DEVICE_ASSIGNMENT for the data structure. Only assigned_dev_id is
+See KVM_ASSIGN_PCI_DEVICE for the data structure. Only assigned_dev_id is
used in kvm_assigned_pci_dev to identify the device.
+Errors:
+ ENOTTY: kernel does not support this ioctl
+
+ Other error conditions may be defined by individual device types or
+ have their standard meanings.
4.50 KVM_ASSIGN_DEV_IRQ
@@ -1346,6 +1360,12 @@ The following flags are defined:
It is not valid to specify multiple types per host or guest IRQ. However, the
IRQ type of host and guest can differ or can even be null.
+Errors:
+ ENOTTY: kernel does not support this ioctl
+
+ Other error conditions may be defined by individual device types or
+ have their standard meanings.
+
4.51 KVM_DEASSIGN_DEV_IRQ
@@ -1423,7 +1443,7 @@ struct kvm_irq_routing_s390_adapter {
4.53 KVM_ASSIGN_SET_MSIX_NR
-Capability: KVM_CAP_DEVICE_MSIX
+Capability: none
Architectures: x86 ia64
Type: vm ioctl
Parameters: struct kvm_assigned_msix_nr (in)
@@ -1445,7 +1465,7 @@ struct kvm_assigned_msix_nr {
4.54 KVM_ASSIGN_SET_MSIX_ENTRY
-Capability: KVM_CAP_DEVICE_MSIX
+Capability: none
Architectures: x86 ia64
Type: vm ioctl
Parameters: struct kvm_assigned_msix_entry (in)
@@ -1461,6 +1481,12 @@ struct kvm_assigned_msix_entry {
__u16 padding[3];
};
+Errors:
+ ENOTTY: kernel does not support this ioctl
+
+ Other error conditions may be defined by individual device types or
+ have their standard meanings.
+
4.55 KVM_SET_TSC_KHZ
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt
index 6d470ae7b073..2a71c8f29f68 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ MSR_KVM_ASYNC_PF_EN: 0x4b564d02
64 byte memory area which must be in guest RAM and must be
zeroed. Bits 5-2 are reserved and should be zero. Bit 0 is 1
when asynchronous page faults are enabled on the vcpu 0 when
- disabled. Bit 2 is 1 if asynchronous page faults can be injected
+ disabled. Bit 1 is 1 if asynchronous page faults can be injected
when vcpu is in cpl == 0.
First 4 byte of 64 byte memory location will be written to by