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diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/xen,shared-memory.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/xen,shared-memory.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..d483a2103 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/xen,shared-memory.txt @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +* Xen hypervisor reserved-memory binding + +Expose one or more memory regions as reserved-memory to the guest +virtual machine. Typically, a region is configured at VM creation time +to be a shared memory area across multiple virtual machines for +communication among them. + +For each of these pre-shared memory regions, a range is exposed under +the /reserved-memory node as a child node. Each range sub-node is named +xen-shmem@<address> and has the following properties: + +- compatible: + compatible = "xen,shared-memory-v1" + +- reg: + the base guest physical address and size of the shared memory region + +- xen,offset: (borrower VMs only) + 64 bit integer offset within the owner virtual machine's shared + memory region used for the mapping in the borrower VM. + +- xen,id: + a string that identifies the shared memory region as specified in + the VM config file |