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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virtual')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 35 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic.txt | 37 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vm.txt | 59 |
3 files changed, 123 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt index 0007fef4ed81..b112efc816f1 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt @@ -612,11 +612,14 @@ Type: vm ioctl Parameters: none Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error -Creates an interrupt controller model in the kernel. On x86, creates a virtual -ioapic, a virtual PIC (two PICs, nested), and sets up future vcpus to have a -local APIC. IRQ routing for GSIs 0-15 is set to both PIC and IOAPIC; GSI 16-23 -only go to the IOAPIC. On ARM/arm64, a GIC is -created. On s390, a dummy irq routing table is created. +Creates an interrupt controller model in the kernel. +On x86, creates a virtual ioapic, a virtual PIC (two PICs, nested), and sets up +future vcpus to have a local APIC. IRQ routing for GSIs 0-15 is set to both +PIC and IOAPIC; GSI 16-23 only go to the IOAPIC. +On ARM/arm64, a GICv2 is created. Any other GIC versions require the usage of +KVM_CREATE_DEVICE, which also supports creating a GICv2. Using +KVM_CREATE_DEVICE is preferred over KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP for GICv2. +On s390, a dummy irq routing table is created. Note that on s390 the KVM_CAP_S390_IRQCHIP vm capability needs to be enabled before KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP can be used. @@ -2312,7 +2315,7 @@ struct kvm_s390_interrupt { type can be one of the following: -KVM_S390_SIGP_STOP (vcpu) - sigp restart +KVM_S390_SIGP_STOP (vcpu) - sigp stop; optional flags in parm KVM_S390_PROGRAM_INT (vcpu) - program check; code in parm KVM_S390_SIGP_SET_PREFIX (vcpu) - sigp set prefix; prefix address in parm KVM_S390_RESTART (vcpu) - restart @@ -3225,3 +3228,23 @@ userspace from doing that. If the hcall number specified is not one that has an in-kernel implementation, the KVM_ENABLE_CAP ioctl will fail with an EINVAL error. + +7.2 KVM_CAP_S390_USER_SIGP + +Architectures: s390 +Parameters: none + +This capability controls which SIGP orders will be handled completely in user +space. With this capability enabled, all fast orders will be handled completely +in the kernel: +- SENSE +- SENSE RUNNING +- EXTERNAL CALL +- EMERGENCY SIGNAL +- CONDITIONAL EMERGENCY SIGNAL + +All other orders will be handled completely in user space. + +Only privileged operation exceptions will be checked for in the kernel (or even +in the hardware prior to interception). If this capability is not enabled, the +old way of handling SIGP orders is used (partially in kernel and user space). diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic.txt index df8b0c7540b6..3fb905429e8a 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic.txt @@ -3,22 +3,42 @@ ARM Virtual Generic Interrupt Controller (VGIC) Device types supported: KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V2 ARM Generic Interrupt Controller v2.0 + KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V3 ARM Generic Interrupt Controller v3.0 Only one VGIC instance may be instantiated through either this API or the legacy KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP api. The created VGIC will act as the VM interrupt controller, requiring emulated user-space devices to inject interrupts to the VGIC instead of directly to CPUs. +Creating a guest GICv3 device requires a host GICv3 as well. +GICv3 implementations with hardware compatibility support allow a guest GICv2 +as well. + Groups: KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_ADDR Attributes: KVM_VGIC_V2_ADDR_TYPE_DIST (rw, 64-bit) Base address in the guest physical address space of the GIC distributor - register mappings. + register mappings. Only valid for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V2. + This address needs to be 4K aligned and the region covers 4 KByte. KVM_VGIC_V2_ADDR_TYPE_CPU (rw, 64-bit) Base address in the guest physical address space of the GIC virtual cpu - interface register mappings. + interface register mappings. Only valid for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V2. + This address needs to be 4K aligned and the region covers 4 KByte. + + KVM_VGIC_V3_ADDR_TYPE_DIST (rw, 64-bit) + Base address in the guest physical address space of the GICv3 distributor + register mappings. Only valid for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V3. + This address needs to be 64K aligned and the region covers 64 KByte. + + KVM_VGIC_V3_ADDR_TYPE_REDIST (rw, 64-bit) + Base address in the guest physical address space of the GICv3 + redistributor register mappings. There are two 64K pages for each + VCPU and all of the redistributor pages are contiguous. + Only valid for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V3. + This address needs to be 64K aligned. + KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_DIST_REGS Attributes: @@ -36,6 +56,7 @@ Groups: the register. Limitations: - Priorities are not implemented, and registers are RAZ/WI + - Currently only implemented for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V2. Errors: -ENODEV: Getting or setting this register is not yet supported -EBUSY: One or more VCPUs are running @@ -68,6 +89,7 @@ Groups: Limitations: - Priorities are not implemented, and registers are RAZ/WI + - Currently only implemented for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V2. Errors: -ENODEV: Getting or setting this register is not yet supported -EBUSY: One or more VCPUs are running @@ -81,3 +103,14 @@ Groups: -EINVAL: Value set is out of the expected range -EBUSY: Value has already be set, or GIC has already been initialized with default values. + + KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CTRL + Attributes: + KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_CTRL_INIT + request the initialization of the VGIC, no additional parameter in + kvm_device_attr.addr. + Errors: + -ENXIO: VGIC not properly configured as required prior to calling + this attribute + -ENODEV: no online VCPU + -ENOMEM: memory shortage when allocating vgic internal data diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vm.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vm.txt index d426fc87fe93..5542c4641a3c 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vm.txt @@ -24,3 +24,62 @@ Returns: 0 Clear the CMMA status for all guest pages, so any pages the guest marked as unused are again used any may not be reclaimed by the host. + +1.3. ATTRIBUTE KVM_S390_VM_MEM_LIMIT_SIZE +Parameters: in attr->addr the address for the new limit of guest memory +Returns: -EFAULT if the given address is not accessible + -EINVAL if the virtual machine is of type UCONTROL + -E2BIG if the given guest memory is to big for that machine + -EBUSY if a vcpu is already defined + -ENOMEM if not enough memory is available for a new shadow guest mapping + 0 otherwise + +Allows userspace to query the actual limit and set a new limit for +the maximum guest memory size. The limit will be rounded up to +2048 MB, 4096 GB, 8192 TB respectively, as this limit is governed by +the number of page table levels. + +2. GROUP: KVM_S390_VM_CPU_MODEL +Architectures: s390 + +2.1. ATTRIBUTE: KVM_S390_VM_CPU_MACHINE (r/o) + +Allows user space to retrieve machine and kvm specific cpu related information: + +struct kvm_s390_vm_cpu_machine { + __u64 cpuid; # CPUID of host + __u32 ibc; # IBC level range offered by host + __u8 pad[4]; + __u64 fac_mask[256]; # set of cpu facilities enabled by KVM + __u64 fac_list[256]; # set of cpu facilities offered by host +} + +Parameters: address of buffer to store the machine related cpu data + of type struct kvm_s390_vm_cpu_machine* +Returns: -EFAULT if the given address is not accessible from kernel space + -ENOMEM if not enough memory is available to process the ioctl + 0 in case of success + +2.2. ATTRIBUTE: KVM_S390_VM_CPU_PROCESSOR (r/w) + +Allows user space to retrieve or request to change cpu related information for a vcpu: + +struct kvm_s390_vm_cpu_processor { + __u64 cpuid; # CPUID currently (to be) used by this vcpu + __u16 ibc; # IBC level currently (to be) used by this vcpu + __u8 pad[6]; + __u64 fac_list[256]; # set of cpu facilities currently (to be) used + # by this vcpu +} + +KVM does not enforce or limit the cpu model data in any form. Take the information +retrieved by means of KVM_S390_VM_CPU_MACHINE as hint for reasonable configuration +setups. Instruction interceptions triggered by additionally set facilitiy bits that +are not handled by KVM need to by imlemented in the VM driver code. + +Parameters: address of buffer to store/set the processor related cpu + data of type struct kvm_s390_vm_cpu_processor*. +Returns: -EBUSY in case 1 or more vcpus are already activated (only in write case) + -EFAULT if the given address is not accessible from kernel space + -ENOMEM if not enough memory is available to process the ioctl + 0 in case of success |