KVM: Add documentation for KVM_CAP_NR_VCPUS

Document KVM_CAP_NR_VCPUS that can be used by the userspace to determine
maximum number of VCPUs it can create with the KVM_CREATE_VCPU ioctl.

Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Pekka Enberg 2011-05-09 22:48:54 +03:00 committed by Avi Kivity
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@ -175,7 +175,10 @@ Parameters: vcpu id (apic id on x86)
Returns: vcpu fd on success, -1 on error
This API adds a vcpu to a virtual machine. The vcpu id is a small integer
in the range [0, max_vcpus).
in the range [0, max_vcpus). You can use KVM_CAP_NR_VCPUS of the
KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION ioctl() to determine the value for max_vcpus at run-time.
If the KVM_CAP_NR_VCPUS does not exist, you should assume that max_vcpus is 4
cpus max.
4.8 KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG (vm ioctl)