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diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/xive.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/xive.txt index 7ffd4c7be7b5..525d1eebcf34 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/xive.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/xive.txt @@ -107,6 +107,23 @@ the legacy interrupt mode, referred as XICS (POWER7/8). -ENOENT: Unknown source number -EINVAL: Not initialized source number +* VCPU state + + The XIVE IC maintains VP interrupt state in an internal structure + called the NVT. When a VP is not dispatched on a HW processor + thread, this structure can be updated by HW if the VP is the target + of an event notification. + + It is important for migration to capture the cached IPB from the NVT + as it synthesizes the priorities of the pending interrupts. We + capture a bit more to report debug information. + + KVM_REG_PPC_VP_STATE (2 * 64bits) + bits: | 63 .... 32 | 31 .... 0 | + values: | TIMA word0 | TIMA word1 | + bits: | 127 .......... 64 | + values: | unused | + * Migration: Saving the state of a VM using the XIVE native exploitation mode |