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6. Capabilities that can be enabled
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-----------------------------------
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-There are certain capabilities that change the behavior of the virtual CPU when
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-enabled. To enable them, please see section 4.37. Below you can find a list of
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-capabilities and what their effect on the vCPU is when enabling them.
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+There are certain capabilities that change the behavior of the virtual CPU or
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+the virtual machine when enabled. To enable them, please see section 4.37.
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+Below you can find a list of capabilities and what their effect on the vCPU or
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+the virtual machine is when enabling them.
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The following information is provided along with the description:
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Architectures: which instruction set architectures provide this ioctl.
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x86 includes both i386 and x86_64.
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+ Target: whether this is a per-vcpu or per-vm capability.
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+
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Parameters: what parameters are accepted by the capability.
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Returns: the return value. General error numbers (EBADF, ENOMEM, EINVAL)
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@@ -2893,6 +2896,7 @@ The following information is provided along with the description:
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6.1 KVM_CAP_PPC_OSI
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Architectures: ppc
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+Target: vcpu
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Parameters: none
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Returns: 0 on success; -1 on error
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@@ -2907,6 +2911,7 @@ When this capability is enabled, KVM_EXIT_OSI can occur.
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6.2 KVM_CAP_PPC_PAPR
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Architectures: ppc
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+Target: vcpu
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Parameters: none
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Returns: 0 on success; -1 on error
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@@ -2926,6 +2931,7 @@ When this capability is enabled, KVM_EXIT_PAPR_HCALL can occur.
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6.3 KVM_CAP_SW_TLB
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Architectures: ppc
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+Target: vcpu
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Parameters: args[0] is the address of a struct kvm_config_tlb
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Returns: 0 on success; -1 on error
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@@ -2968,6 +2974,7 @@ For mmu types KVM_MMU_FSL_BOOKE_NOHV and KVM_MMU_FSL_BOOKE_HV:
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6.4 KVM_CAP_S390_CSS_SUPPORT
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Architectures: s390
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+Target: vcpu
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Parameters: none
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Returns: 0 on success; -1 on error
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@@ -2979,9 +2986,13 @@ handled in-kernel, while the other I/O instructions are passed to userspace.
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When this capability is enabled, KVM_EXIT_S390_TSCH will occur on TEST
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SUBCHANNEL intercepts.
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+Note that even though this capability is enabled per-vcpu, the complete
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+virtual machine is affected.
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+
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6.5 KVM_CAP_PPC_EPR
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Architectures: ppc
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+Target: vcpu
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Parameters: args[0] defines whether the proxy facility is active
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Returns: 0 on success; -1 on error
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@@ -3007,6 +3018,7 @@ This capability connects the vcpu to an in-kernel MPIC device.
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6.7 KVM_CAP_IRQ_XICS
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Architectures: ppc
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+Target: vcpu
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Parameters: args[0] is the XICS device fd
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args[1] is the XICS CPU number (server ID) for this vcpu
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