[DOC][PATCH v2] powerpc: Provide initial documentation for PAPR hcalls

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Tue Feb 4 23:01:30 AEDT 2020


On Wed, 2019-08-28 at 08:27:29 UTC, Vaibhav Jain wrote:
> This doc patch provides an initial description of the hcall op-codes
> that are used by Linux kernel running as a guest (LPAR) on top of
> PowerVM or any other sPAPR compliant hyper-visor (e.g qemu).
> 
> Apart from documenting the hcalls the doc-patch also provides a
> rudimentary overview of how hcall ABI, how they are issued with the
> Linux kernel and how information/control flows between the guest and
> hypervisor.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav at linux.ibm.com>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/58b278f568f0509497e2df7310bfd719156a60d1

cheers


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