From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: Document MCE banks non-exposure via KVM_GET_MSR_INDEX_LIST
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 14:09:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1278500979-12725-3-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1278500979-12725-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
---
Documentation/kvm/api.txt | 4 ++++
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/kvm/api.txt
index d9b00f1..179cc51 100644
--- a/Documentation/kvm/api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kvm/api.txt
@@ -126,6 +126,10 @@ user fills in the size of the indices array in nmsrs, and in return
kvm adjusts nmsrs to reflect the actual number of msrs and fills in
the indices array with their numbers.
+Note: if kvm indicates supports MCE (KVM_CAP_MCE), then the MCE bank MSRs are
+not returned in the MSR list, as different vcpus can have a different number
+of banks, as set via the KVM_X86_SETUP_MCE ioctl.
+
4.4 KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION
Capability: basic
--
1.7.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-07 11:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-07 11:09 [PATCH 0/2] Fix MCE not cleared on reset Avi Kivity
2010-07-07 11:09 ` [PATCH 1/2] KVM: Expose MCE control MSRs to userspace Avi Kivity
2010-07-08 2:07 ` Huang Ying
2010-07-08 7:43 ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-08 8:03 ` Huang Ying
2010-07-08 8:16 ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-08 8:47 ` Huang Ying
2010-07-08 9:12 ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-12 0:10 ` Huang Ying
2010-07-07 11:09 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-07-12 18:05 ` [PATCH 0/2] Fix MCE not cleared on reset Marcelo Tosatti
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