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authorHalil Pasic <pasic@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2016-02-25 13:26:32 +0100
committerCornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>2016-04-20 14:27:32 +0200
commitdad7eefbd048a2f44c990303751159671e988d13 (patch)
tree0fbed42ac72d73caec501b1c5f81d3a0b6e434cc
parentKVM: s390: implement has_attr for FLIC (diff)
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KVM: s390: document FLIC behavior on unsupported
FLIC behavior deviates from the API documentation in reporting EINVAL instead of ENXIO for KVM_SET_DEVICE_ATTR/KVM_GET_DEVICE_ATTR when the group or attribute is unknown/unsupported. Unfortunately this can not be fixed for historical reasons. Let us at least have it documented. Signed-off-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/s390_flic.txt6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/s390_flic.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/s390_flic.txt
index e3e314cb83e8..646f47470f98 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/s390_flic.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/s390_flic.txt
@@ -94,3 +94,9 @@ struct kvm_s390_io_adapter_req {
KVM_S390_IO_ADAPTER_UNMAP
release a userspace page for the translated address specified in addr
from the list of mappings
+
+Note: The KVM_SET_DEVICE_ATTR/KVM_GET_DEVICE_ATTR device ioctls executed on
+FLIC with an unknown group or attribute gives the error code EINVAL (instead of
+ENXIO, as specified in the API documentation). It is not possible to conclude
+that a FLIC operation is unavailable based on the error code resulting from a
+usage attempt.