misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC)
authorBryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 21:32:57 +0000 (16:32 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 14 May 2018 14:35:42 +0000 (16:35 +0200)
commit0eca353e7ae75a56d5a10cd1c0ff1f06d89e60e3
tree4c0ba51f2c241c327ace8ae48f47431c639c42b2
parent5b7d127726de6eed4b900bc3bbb167837690818f
misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC)

This driver is a logical device which provides an
interface between the hypervisor and a management
partition. This interface is like a message
passing interface. This management partition
is intended to provide an alternative to HMC-based
system management.

VMC enables the Management LPAR to provide basic
logical partition functions:
- Logical Partition Configuration
- Boot, start, and stop actions for individual
  partitions
- Display of partition status
- Management of virtual Ethernet
- Management of virtual Storage
- Basic system management

This driver is to be used for the POWER Virtual
Management Channel Virtual Adapter on the PowerPC
platform. It provides a character device which
allows for both request/response and async message
support through the /dev/ibmvmc node.

Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Royer <seroyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Adam Reznechek <adreznec@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Taylor Jakobson <tjakobs@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Brad Warrum <bwarrum@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt
Documentation/misc-devices/ibmvmc.rst [new file with mode: 0644]
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arch/powerpc/include/asm/hvcall.h
drivers/misc/Kconfig
drivers/misc/Makefile
drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/misc/ibmvmc.h [new file with mode: 0644]