From patchwork Sun Aug 23 11:56:19 2009 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Avi Kivity X-Patchwork-Id: 43438 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.176.167]) by demeter.kernel.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n7NC7Qf3005531 for ; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:07:32 GMT Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933787AbZHWMDv (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:03:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933780AbZHWMDu (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:03:50 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:23898 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933535AbZHWL4t (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:56:49 -0400 Received: from int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.16]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n7NBuo3X023922; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:56:51 -0400 Received: from cleopatra.tlv.redhat.com (cleopatra.tlv.redhat.com [10.35.255.11]) by int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n7NBumZF026822; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:56:50 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (cleopatra.tlv.redhat.com [10.35.255.11]) by cleopatra.tlv.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DCD1250AD8; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:56:46 +0300 (IDT) From: Avi Kivity To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 20/46] KVM: add module parameters documentation Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:56:19 +0300 Message-Id: <1251028605-31977-21-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1251028605-31977-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> References: <1251028605-31977-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 10.5.11.16 Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: kvm@vger.kernel.org From: Andre Przywara Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index dd1a6d4..5b7a706 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ parameter is applicable: ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled. ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled. JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled. + KVM Kernel Virtual Machine support is enabled. LIBATA Libata driver is enabled LP Printer support is enabled. LOOP Loopback device support is enabled. @@ -1098,6 +1099,44 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file kstack=N [X86] Print N words from the kernel stack in oops dumps. + kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. + Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) + + kvm.oos_shadow= [KVM] Disable out-of-sync shadow paging. + Default is 1 (enabled) + + kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM. + Default is 0 (off) + + kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU) + for all guests. + Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64bit or 32bit-PAE mode + + kvm-intel.bypass_guest_pf= + [KVM,Intel] Disables bypassing of guest page faults + on Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) + + kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables + (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. + Default is 1 (enabled) + + kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= + [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states + Default is 0 (disabled) + + kvm-intel.flexpriority= + [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). + Default is 1 (enabled) + + kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= + [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature + (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable + Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) + + kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification + feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. + Default is 1 (enabled) + l2cr= [PPC] l3cr= [PPC]