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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: Document KVM_GET_LAPIC, KVM_SET_LAPIC ioctl
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 08:30:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1305117051-17246-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> (raw)

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
---
 Documentation/kvm/api.txt |   32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/kvm/api.txt
index 42542eb..67cc0f5 100644
--- a/Documentation/kvm/api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kvm/api.txt
@@ -1291,6 +1291,38 @@ Returns the tsc frequency of the guest. The unit of the return value is
 KHz. If the host has unstable tsc this ioctl returns -EIO instead as an
 error.
 
+4.56 KVM_GET_LAPIC
+
+Capability: KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP
+Architectures: x86
+Type: vcpu ioctl
+Parameters: struct kvm_lapic_state (out)
+Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
+
+#define KVM_APIC_REG_SIZE 0x400
+struct kvm_lapic_state {
+	char regs[KVM_APIC_REG_SIZE];
+};
+
+Reads the Local APIC registers and copies them into the input argument.  The
+data format and layout are the same as documented in the architecture manual.
+
+4.57 KVM_SET_LAPIC
+
+Capability: KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP
+Architectures: x86
+Type: vcpu ioctl
+Parameters: struct kvm_lapic_state (in)
+Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
+
+#define KVM_APIC_REG_SIZE 0x400
+struct kvm_lapic_state {
+	char regs[KVM_APIC_REG_SIZE];
+};
+
+Copies the input argument into the the Local APIC registers.  The data format
+and layout are the same as documented in the architecture manual.
+
 5. The kvm_run structure
 
 Application code obtains a pointer to the kvm_run structure by
-- 
1.7.4.3


             reply	other threads:[~2011-05-11 15:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-11 12:30 Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-05-17 18:26 ` [PATCH] KVM: Document KVM_GET_LAPIC, KVM_SET_LAPIC ioctl Marcelo Tosatti

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