[Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/8] docs: update docs for the ~/platform/generation-id key

[David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 docs/misc/xenstore-paths.markdown |   24 ++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/misc/xenstore-paths.markdown 
b/docs/misc/xenstore-paths.markdown
index 70ab7f4..ea67536 100644
--- a/docs/misc/xenstore-paths.markdown
+++ b/docs/misc/xenstore-paths.markdown
@@ -166,11 +166,6 @@ use the xenstore-based protocol instead (see 
~/control/shutdown,
 below) even if the guest has advertised support for the event channel
 protocol.
 
-#### ~/hvmloader/generation-id-address = ADDRESS [r,HVM,INTERNAL]
-
-The hexadecimal representation of the address of the domain's
-"generation id".
-
 #### ~/hvmloader/allow-memory-relocate = ("1"|"0") [HVM,INTERNAL]
 
 If the default low MMIO hole (below 4GiB) is not big enough for all
@@ -193,9 +188,22 @@ Various platform properties.
 
 #### ~/platform/generation-id = INTEGER ":" INTEGER [HVM,INTERNAL]
 
-Two 64 bit values that represent the Windows Generation ID.
-Is used by the BIOS initializer to get this value.
-If not present or "0:0" (all zeroes) device will not be present to the machine.
+The lower and upper 64-bit words of the 128-bit VM Generation ID.
+
+This key is used by hvmloader to create the ACPI VM Generation ID
+device.  It initialises a 16 octet region of guest memory with this
+value.  The guest physical address of this region is saved in the
+HVM_PARAM_VM_GENERATION_ID_ADDR HVM parameter.
+
+If this key is not present, is empty, or is all-zeros ("0:0") then the
+ACPI device is not created.
+
+When restoring a guest, the toolstack may (in certain circumstances)
+need generate a new random generation ID and write it to guest memory
+at the guest physical address in HVM_PARAM_VM_GENERATION_ID_ADDR.
+
+See Microsoft's "Virtual Machine Generation ID" specification for the
+circumstances where the generation ID needs to be changed.
 
 ### Frontend device paths
 
-- 
1.7.10.4


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