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diff --git a/docs/specs/ppc-spapr-hotplug.txt b/docs/specs/ppc-spapr-hotplug.txt index 46e07196bb..631b0cadae 100644 --- a/docs/specs/ppc-spapr-hotplug.txt +++ b/docs/specs/ppc-spapr-hotplug.txt @@ -302,4 +302,52 @@ consisting of <phys>, <size> and <maxcpus>. pseries guests use this property to note the maximum allowed CPUs for the guest. +== ibm,dynamic-reconfiguration-memory == + +ibm,dynamic-reconfiguration-memory is a device tree node that represents +dynamically reconfigurable logical memory blocks (LMB). This node +is generated only when the guest advertises the support for it via +ibm,client-architecture-support call. Memory that is not dynamically +reconfigurable is represented by /memory nodes. The properties of this +node that are of interest to the sPAPR memory hotplug implementation +in QEMU are described here. + +ibm,lmb-size + +This 64bit integer defines the size of each dynamically reconfigurable LMB. + +ibm,associativity-lookup-arrays + +This property defines a lookup array in which the NUMA associativity +information for each LMB can be found. It is a property encoded array +that begins with an integer M, the number of associativity lists followed +by an integer N, the number of entries per associativity list and terminated +by M associativity lists each of length N integers. + +This property provides the same information as given by ibm,associativity +property in a /memory node. Each assigned LMB has an index value between +0 and M-1 which is used as an index into this table to select which +associativity list to use for the LMB. This index value for each LMB +is defined in ibm,dynamic-memory property. + +ibm,dynamic-memory + +This property describes the dynamically reconfigurable memory. It is a +property encoded array that has an integer N, the number of LMBs followed +by N LMB list entires. + +Each LMB list entry consists of the following elements: + +- Logical address of the start of the LMB encoded as a 64bit integer. This + corresponds to reg property in /memory node. +- DRC index of the LMB that corresponds to ibm,my-drc-index property + in a /memory node. +- Four bytes reserved for expansion. +- Associativity list index for the LMB that is used as an index into + ibm,associativity-lookup-arrays property described earlier. This + is used to retrieve the right associativity list to be used for this + LMB. +- A 32bit flags word. The bit at bit position 0x00000008 defines whether + the LMB is assigned to the the partition as of boot time. + [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.ppc.embedded/75350/focus=106867 |