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| author | James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> | 2014-12-09 00:07:56 +0100 |
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| committer | James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> | 2015-03-27 22:25:22 +0100 |
| commit | d952bd070f79b6dcbad52c03dbc41cbc8ba086c8 (patch) | |
| tree | e4b361c9c5e9529d427a96d53cabbc57b204dad8 /Documentation | |
| parent | MIPS: KVM: Expose MSA registers (diff) | |
| download | linux-d952bd070f79b6dcbad52c03dbc41cbc8ba086c8.tar.xz linux-d952bd070f79b6dcbad52c03dbc41cbc8ba086c8.zip | |
MIPS: KVM: Wire up MSA capability
Now that the code is in place for KVM to support MIPS SIMD Architecutre
(MSA) in MIPS guests, wire up the new KVM_CAP_MIPS_MSA capability.
For backwards compatibility, the capability must be explicitly enabled
in order to detect or make use of MSA from the guest.
The capability is not supported if the hardware supports MSA vector
partitioning, since the extra support cannot be tested yet and it
extends the state that the userland program would have to save.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt index 62809871814b..1490eb0ef798 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt @@ -3335,6 +3335,18 @@ done the KVM_REG_MIPS_FPR_* and KVM_REG_MIPS_FCR_* registers can be accessed Config5.FRE bits are accessible via the KVM API and also from the guest, depending on them being supported by the FPU. +6.10 KVM_CAP_MIPS_MSA + +Architectures: mips +Target: vcpu +Parameters: args[0] is reserved for future use (should be 0). + +This capability allows the use of the MIPS SIMD Architecture (MSA) by the guest. +It allows the Config3.MSAP bit to be set to enable the use of MSA by the guest. +Once this is done the KVM_REG_MIPS_VEC_* and KVM_REG_MIPS_MSA_* registers can be +accessed, and the Config5.MSAEn bit is accessible via the KVM API and also from +the guest. + 7. Capabilities that can be enabled on VMs ------------------------------------------ |