[PATCH] KVM: Document KVM_NMI

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Tue Dec 06 2011 - 15:51:20 EST


Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx>
---
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 7945b0b..0b7b8f2 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
@@ -1450,6 +1450,19 @@ is supported; 2 if the processor requires all virtual machines to have
an RMA, or 1 if the processor can use an RMA but doesn't require it,
because it supports the Virtual RMA (VRMA) facility.

+4.64 KVM_NMI
+
+Capability: basic
+Architectures: none
+Type: vcpu ioctl
+Parameters: none
+Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
+
+Trigger an NMI on the specified VCPU.
+
+This can be used to cause a panic in the guest, which in turn would result
+in a backtrace/dump.
+
5. The kvm_run structure

Application code obtains a pointer to the kvm_run structure by
--
1.7.8

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