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Message-Id: <20210409125423.26288-3-eesposit@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri,  9 Apr 2021 14:54:21 +0200
From:   Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@...hat.com>
To:     kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@...hat.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Graf <graf@...zon.com>,
        Andrew Jones <drjones@...hat.com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v5 2/4] Documentation: KVM: update KVM_GET_EMULATED_CPUID ioctl description

KVM_GET_EMULATED_CPUID returns -E2BIG if the nent field of
struct kvm_cpuid2 is smaller than the actual entries, while
it adjusts nent if the provided amount is bigger than the
actual amount.

Update documentation accordingly. ENOMEM is just returned if the
allocation fails, like all other calls.

Signed-off-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@...hat.com>
---
 Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 10 ++++------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
index 307f2fcf1b02..8ba23bc2a625 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
@@ -3404,12 +3404,10 @@ which features are emulated by kvm instead of being present natively.
 
 Userspace invokes KVM_GET_EMULATED_CPUID by passing a kvm_cpuid2
 structure with the 'nent' field indicating the number of entries in
-the variable-size array 'entries'. If the number of entries is too low
-to describe the cpu capabilities, an error (E2BIG) is returned. If the
-number is too high, the 'nent' field is adjusted and an error (ENOMEM)
-is returned. If the number is just right, the 'nent' field is adjusted
-to the number of valid entries in the 'entries' array, which is then
-filled.
+the variable-size array 'entries'.
+If the number of entries is too low to describe the cpu
+capabilities, an error (E2BIG) is returned.  If the number is too high,
+the 'nent' field is adjusted and the entries array is filled.
 
 The entries returned are the set CPUID bits of the respective features
 which kvm emulates, as returned by the CPUID instruction, with unknown
-- 
2.30.2