Documentation/misc-devices/ibmvmc.rst

24 interface between the hypervisor and a management partition. This interface
47 application using a combination of HMC to hypervisor interfaces and
50 The set of HMC to hypervisor messages supported by the management
51 application component are passed to the hypervisor over a VMC interface,
68 for communicating between the management application and the hypervisor. It
75 defined that must take place to establish that both the hypervisor and
80 when the hypervisor detects one of the peer partitions has abnormally
86 the hypervisor. As most HMC messages far exceed the size of a CRQ buffer,
102         from the hypervisor to partition are also reported in this queue.
119 resources available in both the management partition and the hypervisor.
120 Finally, the hypervisor requests that the management partition create an
128         Management Partition		Hypervisor
152 RDMA of the HMC ID to the hypervisor, and then sends an Interface Open
153 message to the hypervisor to establish the session over the VMC. After the
154 hypervisor receives this information, it sends Add Buffer messages to the
156 connection. Finally, the hypervisor sends an Interface Open Response
162         Management Partition             Hypervisor
177 During normal runtime, the management application and the hypervisor
179 sending data to the hypervisor, the management application performs a
180 write() to the VMC device, and the driver RDMA’s the data to the hypervisor
182 device buffers have been made available by the hypervisor, or no buffers
185 state. When the hypervisor sends a message to the management, the data is
195         Management Partition             Hypervisor
210 results in an Interface Close message flowing to the hypervisor, which
216         Management Partition             Hypervisor