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| author | Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> | 2012-06-29 17:56:16 +0200 |
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| committer | Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> | 2012-07-03 02:10:30 +0200 |
| commit | f36992e31284131a978d07bb14e582ce67b46b64 (patch) | |
| tree | be88191fc675e9d242140dd9c5e8ddd9ee5c02c2 /Documentation | |
| parent | KVM: Pass kvm_irqfd to functions (diff) | |
| download | linux-f36992e31284131a978d07bb14e582ce67b46b64.tar.xz linux-f36992e31284131a978d07bb14e582ce67b46b64.zip | |
KVM: Add missing KVM_IRQFD API documentation
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt index 930126698a0f..2c9948379469 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt @@ -1930,6 +1930,23 @@ The "pte_enc" field provides a value that can OR'ed into the hash PTE's RPN field (ie, it needs to be shifted left by 12 to OR it into the hash PTE second double word). +4.75 KVM_IRQFD + +Capability: KVM_CAP_IRQFD +Architectures: x86 +Type: vm ioctl +Parameters: struct kvm_irqfd (in) +Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error + +Allows setting an eventfd to directly trigger a guest interrupt. +kvm_irqfd.fd specifies the file descriptor to use as the eventfd and +kvm_irqfd.gsi specifies the irqchip pin toggled by this event. When +an event is tiggered on the eventfd, an interrupt is injected into +the guest using the specified gsi pin. The irqfd is removed using +the KVM_IRQFD_FLAG_DEASSIGN flag, specifying both kvm_irqfd.fd +and kvm_irqfd.gsi. + + 5. The kvm_run structure ------------------------ |