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| author | James Hogan | 2014-12-08 23:07:56 +0000 |
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| committer | James Hogan | 2015-03-27 21:25:18 +0000 |
| commit | 5fafd8748b366105e08c198892e9fe02ef15c021 (patch) | |
| tree | e644c6cb5e4acdb1c1047022cd835d8695fd1028 /Documentation/virtual | |
| parent | 379245cdf1d1efc1eccc38bf0cc985dae232123d (diff) | |
MIPS: KVM: Wire up FPU capability
Now that the code is in place for KVM to support FPU in MIPS KVM guests,
wire up the new KVM_CAP_MIPS_FPU capability.
For backwards compatibility, the capability must be explicitly enabled
in order to detect or make use of the FPU from the guest.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virtual')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt index f3c198360785..a1e9bfa5fe9e 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt @@ -3312,6 +3312,19 @@ Parameters: none This capability enables the in-kernel irqchip for s390. Please refer to "4.24 KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP" for details. +6.9 KVM_CAP_MIPS_FPU + +Architectures: mips +Target: vcpu +Parameters: args[0] is reserved for future use (should be 0). + +This capability allows the use of the host Floating Point Unit by the guest. It +allows the Config1.FP bit to be set to enable the FPU in the guest. Once this is +done the KVM_REG_MIPS_FPR_* and KVM_REG_MIPS_FCR_* registers can be accessed +(depending on the current guest FPU register mode), and the Status.FR, +Config5.FRE bits are accessible via the KVM API and also from the guest, +depending on them being supported by the FPU. + 7. Capabilities that can be enabled on VMs ------------------------------------------ |