KVM: PPC: Add support for ePAPR idle hcall in host kernel

And add a new flag definition in kvm_ppc_pvinfo to indicate
whether the host supports the EV_IDLE hcall.

Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com>
[stuart.yoder@freescale.com: cleanup,fixes for conditions allowing idle]
Signed-off-by: Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@freescale.com>
[agraf: fix typo]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
index f6ec3a92e621..170afb1fbc2e 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
@@ -1194,12 +1194,15 @@ struct kvm_ppc_pvinfo {
 This ioctl fetches PV specific information that need to be passed to the guest
 using the device tree or other means from vm context.
 
-For now the only implemented piece of information distributed here is an array
-of 4 instructions that make up a hypercall.
+The hcall array defines 4 instructions that make up a hypercall.
 
 If any additional field gets added to this structure later on, a bit for that
 additional piece of information will be set in the flags bitmap.
 
+The flags bitmap is defined as:
+
+   /* the host supports the ePAPR idle hcall
+   #define KVM_PPC_PVINFO_FLAGS_EV_IDLE   (1<<0)
 
 4.48 KVM_ASSIGN_PCI_DEVICE