KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add a VM capability to enable nested virtualization

With this, userspace can enable a KVM-HV guest to run nested guests
under it.

The administrator can control whether any nested guests can be run;
setting the "nested" module parameter to false prevents any guests
becoming nested hypervisors (that is, any attempt to enable the nested
capability on a guest will fail).  Guests which are already nested
hypervisors will continue to be so.

Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
index 2f5f9b743bff..fde48b6708f1 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
@@ -4532,6 +4532,20 @@ With this capability, a guest may read the MSR_PLATFORM_INFO MSR. Otherwise,
 a #GP would be raised when the guest tries to access. Currently, this
 capability does not enable write permissions of this MSR for the guest.
 
+7.16 KVM_CAP_PPC_NESTED_HV
+
+Architectures: ppc
+Parameters: none
+Returns: 0 on success, -EINVAL when the implementation doesn't support
+	 nested-HV virtualization.
+
+HV-KVM on POWER9 and later systems allows for "nested-HV"
+virtualization, which provides a way for a guest VM to run guests that
+can run using the CPU's supervisor mode (privileged non-hypervisor
+state).  Enabling this capability on a VM depends on the CPU having
+the necessary functionality and on the facility being enabled with a
+kvm-hv module parameter.
+
 8. Other capabilities.
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