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| author |   Anup Patel <anup.patel@linaro.org> | 2014-04-29 11:24:19 +0530 |
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| committer |   Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> | 2014-04-30 04:18:58 -0700 |
| commit | 8ad6b634928a25971dc42dce101808b1491f87ec (patch) | |
| tree | 0e8c905e1ab70406d5dd2cf4b2edd531eee97db6 /Documentation/virtual | |
| parent | ARM/ARM64: KVM: Make kvm_psci_call() return convention more flexible (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-8ad6b634928a25971dc42dce101808b1491f87ec.tar.xz linux-dev-8ad6b634928a25971dc42dce101808b1491f87ec.zip | |
KVM: Add KVM_EXIT_SYSTEM_EVENT to user space API header
Currently, we don't have an exit reason to notify user space about
a system-level event (for e.g. system reset or shutdown) triggered
by the VCPU. This patch adds exit reason KVM_EXIT_SYSTEM_EVENT for
this purpose. We can also inform user space about the 'type' and
architecture specific 'flags' of a system-level event using the
kvm_run structure.
This newly added KVM_EXIT_SYSTEM_EVENT will be used by KVM ARM/ARM64
in-kernel PSCI v0.2 support to reset/shutdown VMs.
Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar <pranavkumar@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virtual')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt index 556d056a9bcd..6a5de5643e0b 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt @@ -2740,6 +2740,21 @@ It gets triggered whenever both KVM_CAP_PPC_EPR are enabled and an external interrupt has just been delivered into the guest. User space should put the acknowledged interrupt vector into the 'epr' field. + /* KVM_EXIT_SYSTEM_EVENT */ + struct { +#define KVM_SYSTEM_EVENT_SHUTDOWN 1 +#define KVM_SYSTEM_EVENT_RESET 2 + __u32 type; + __u64 flags; + } system_event; + +If exit_reason is KVM_EXIT_SYSTEM_EVENT then the vcpu has triggered +a system-level event using some architecture specific mechanism (hypercall +or some special instruction). In case of ARM/ARM64, this is triggered using +HVC instruction based PSCI call from the vcpu. The 'type' field describes +the system-level event type. The 'flags' field describes architecture +specific flags for the system-level event. + /* Fix the size of the union. */ char padding[256]; }; |