Re: [PATCHv7 5/8] kvm: eoi msi documentation

[Avi Kivity]

On 06/14/2012 04:53 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Document the new EOI MSR. Couldn't decide whether this change belongs
> conceptually on guest or host side, so a separate patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt
> index 96b41bd..6ae5a85 100644
> --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt
> @@ -223,3 +223,35 @@ MSR_KVM_STEAL_TIME: 0x4b564d03
>  		steal: the amount of time in which this vCPU did not run, in
>  		nanoseconds. Time during which the vcpu is idle, will not be
>  		reported as steal time.
> +
> +MSR_KVM_EOI_EN: 0x4b564d04
> +	data: Bit 0 is 1 when PV end of interrupt is enabled on the vcpu; 0
> +	when disabled.  When enabled, bits 63-1 hold 2-byte aligned physical address
> +	of a 2 byte memory area which must be in guest RAM and must be zeroed.

2 byte aligned means we must never access it on the host with a >2 byte
instruction, or we risk touching unmapped memory.


-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


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