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diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst index 6b683dfea8f2..f4ea5e41a4d0 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst @@ -1687,6 +1687,10 @@ userspace capabilities, and with user requirements (for example, the user may wish to constrain cpuid to emulate older hardware, or for feature consistency across a cluster). +Dynamically-enabled feature bits need to be requested with +``arch_prctl()`` before calling this ioctl. Feature bits that have not +been requested are excluded from the result. + Note that certain capabilities, such as KVM_CAP_X86_DISABLE_EXITS, may expose cpuid features (e.g. MONITOR) which are not supported by kvm in its default configuration. If userspace enables such capabilities, it |