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diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt index 136f1eef3712..4833904d32a5 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt @@ -5309,3 +5309,16 @@ Architectures: x86 This capability indicates that KVM supports paravirtualized Hyper-V IPI send hypercalls: HvCallSendSyntheticClusterIpi, HvCallSendSyntheticClusterIpiEx. +8.21 KVM_CAP_HYPERV_DIRECT_TLBFLUSH + +Architecture: x86 + +This capability indicates that KVM running on top of Hyper-V hypervisor +enables Direct TLB flush for its guests meaning that TLB flush +hypercalls are handled by Level 0 hypervisor (Hyper-V) bypassing KVM. +Due to the different ABI for hypercall parameters between Hyper-V and +KVM, enabling this capability effectively disables all hypercall +handling by KVM (as some KVM hypercall may be mistakenly treated as TLB +flush hypercalls by Hyper-V) so userspace should disable KVM identification +in CPUID and only exposes Hyper-V identification. In this case, guest +thinks it's running on Hyper-V and only use Hyper-V hypercalls. |