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-rw-r--r--Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt10
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h3
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kvm_host.h4
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/kvm.h1
-rw-r--r--virt/kvm/kvm_main.c4
5 files changed, 19 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
index 8cc857fffcc7..a4482cce4bae 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
@@ -199,8 +199,8 @@ Type: vm ioctl
Parameters: vcpu id (apic id on x86)
Returns: vcpu fd on success, -1 on error
-This API adds a vcpu to a virtual machine. The vcpu id is a small integer
-in the range [0, max_vcpus).
+This API adds a vcpu to a virtual machine. No more than max_vcpus may be added.
+The vcpu id is an integer in the range [0, max_vcpu_id).
The recommended max_vcpus value can be retrieved using the KVM_CAP_NR_VCPUS of
the KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION ioctl() at run-time.
@@ -212,6 +212,12 @@ cpus max.
If the KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPUS does not exist, you should assume that max_vcpus is
same as the value returned from KVM_CAP_NR_VCPUS.
+The maximum possible value for max_vcpu_id can be retrieved using the
+KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPU_ID of the KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION ioctl() at run-time.
+
+If the KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPU_ID does not exist, you should assume that max_vcpu_id
+is the same as the value returned from KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPUS.
+
On powerpc using book3s_hv mode, the vcpus are mapped onto virtual
threads in one or more virtual CPU cores. (This is because the
hardware requires all the hardware threads in a CPU core to be in the
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index d7b343170453..a07645c17818 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@
#define KVM_MAX_VCORES NR_CPUS
#define KVM_USER_MEM_SLOTS 512
+#include <asm/cputhreads.h>
+#define KVM_MAX_VCPU_ID (threads_per_subcore * KVM_MAX_VCORES)
+
#ifdef CONFIG_KVM_MMIO
#define KVM_COALESCED_MMIO_PAGE_OFFSET 1
#endif
diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
index 0a0e00d9c5da..352889d6e322 100644
--- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@
#include <asm/kvm_host.h>
+#ifndef KVM_MAX_VCPU_ID
+#define KVM_MAX_VCPU_ID KVM_MAX_VCPUS
+#endif
+
/*
* The bit 16 ~ bit 31 of kvm_memory_region::flags are internally used
* in kvm, other bits are visible for userspace which are defined in
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
index a7f1f8032ec1..05ebf475104c 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
@@ -865,6 +865,7 @@ struct kvm_ppc_smmu_info {
#define KVM_CAP_SPAPR_TCE_64 125
#define KVM_CAP_ARM_PMU_V3 126
#define KVM_CAP_VCPU_ATTRIBUTES 127
+#define KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPU_ID 128
#ifdef KVM_CAP_IRQ_ROUTING
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 4fd482fb9260..ed3d9bb18a56 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -2272,7 +2272,7 @@ static int kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu(struct kvm *kvm, u32 id)
int r;
struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu;
- if (id >= KVM_MAX_VCPUS)
+ if (id >= KVM_MAX_VCPU_ID)
return -EINVAL;
vcpu = kvm_arch_vcpu_create(kvm, id);
@@ -2746,6 +2746,8 @@ static long kvm_vm_ioctl_check_extension_generic(struct kvm *kvm, long arg)
case KVM_CAP_MULTI_ADDRESS_SPACE:
return KVM_ADDRESS_SPACE_NUM;
#endif
+ case KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPU_ID:
+ return KVM_MAX_VCPU_ID;
default:
break;
}