Document KVM_CAP_NR_VCPUS that can be used by the userspace to determine
maximum number of VCPUs it can create with the KVM_CREATE_VCPU ioctl.

Cc: Avi Kivity <a...@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosa...@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penb...@kernel.org>
---
 Documentation/kvm/api.txt |    5 ++++-
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/kvm/api.txt
index 9bef4e4..533da6b 100644
--- a/Documentation/kvm/api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kvm/api.txt
@@ -175,7 +175,10 @@ Parameters: vcpu id (apic id on x86)
 Returns: vcpu fd on success, -1 on error
 
 This API adds a vcpu to a virtual machine.  The vcpu id is a small integer
-in the range [0, max_vcpus).
+in the range [0, max_vcpus).  You can use KVM_CAP_NR_VCPUS of the
+KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION ioctl() to determine the value for max_vcpus at run-time.
+If the KVM_CAP_NR_VCPUS does not exist, you should assume that max_vcpus is 4
+cpus max.
 
 4.8 KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG (vm ioctl)
 
-- 
1.7.0.4

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