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diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt index 495b7742ab58..c664064f76fb 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt @@ -835,11 +835,13 @@ struct kvm_clock_data { Capability: KVM_CAP_VCPU_EVENTS Extended by: KVM_CAP_INTR_SHADOW -Architectures: x86 -Type: vm ioctl +Architectures: x86, arm, arm64 +Type: vcpu ioctl Parameters: struct kvm_vcpu_event (out) Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error +X86: + Gets currently pending exceptions, interrupts, and NMIs as well as related states of the vcpu. @@ -881,15 +883,64 @@ Only two fields are defined in the flags field: - KVM_VCPUEVENT_VALID_SMM may be set in the flags field to signal that smi contains a valid state. +ARM/ARM64: + +If the guest accesses a device that is being emulated by the host kernel in +such a way that a real device would generate a physical SError, KVM may make +a virtual SError pending for that VCPU. This system error interrupt remains +pending until the guest takes the exception by unmasking PSTATE.A. + +Running the VCPU may cause it to take a pending SError, or make an access that +causes an SError to become pending. The event's description is only valid while +the VPCU is not running. + +This API provides a way to read and write the pending 'event' state that is not +visible to the guest. To save, restore or migrate a VCPU the struct representing +the state can be read then written using this GET/SET API, along with the other +guest-visible registers. It is not possible to 'cancel' an SError that has been +made pending. + +A device being emulated in user-space may also wish to generate an SError. To do +this the events structure can be populated by user-space. The current state +should be read first, to ensure no existing SError is pending. If an existing +SError is pending, the architecture's 'Multiple SError interrupts' rules should +be followed. (2.5.3 of DDI0587.a "ARM Reliability, Availability, and +Serviceability (RAS) Specification"). + +SError exceptions always have an ESR value. Some CPUs have the ability to +specify what the virtual SError's ESR value should be. These systems will +advertise KVM_CAP_ARM_INJECT_SERROR_ESR. In this case exception.has_esr will +always have a non-zero value when read, and the agent making an SError pending +should specify the ISS field in the lower 24 bits of exception.serror_esr. If +the system supports KVM_CAP_ARM_INJECT_SERROR_ESR, but user-space sets the events +with exception.has_esr as zero, KVM will choose an ESR. + +Specifying exception.has_esr on a system that does not support it will return +-EINVAL. Setting anything other than the lower 24bits of exception.serror_esr +will return -EINVAL. + +struct kvm_vcpu_events { + struct { + __u8 serror_pending; + __u8 serror_has_esr; + /* Align it to 8 bytes */ + __u8 pad[6]; + __u64 serror_esr; + } exception; + __u32 reserved[12]; +}; + 4.32 KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS Capability: KVM_CAP_VCPU_EVENTS Extended by: KVM_CAP_INTR_SHADOW -Architectures: x86 -Type: vm ioctl +Architectures: x86, arm, arm64 +Type: vcpu ioctl Parameters: struct kvm_vcpu_event (in) Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error +X86: + Set pending exceptions, interrupts, and NMIs as well as related states of the vcpu. @@ -910,6 +961,13 @@ shall be written into the VCPU. KVM_VCPUEVENT_VALID_SMM can only be set if KVM_CAP_X86_SMM is available. +ARM/ARM64: + +Set the pending SError exception state for this VCPU. It is not possible to +'cancel' an Serror that has been made pending. + +See KVM_GET_VCPU_EVENTS for the data structure. + 4.33 KVM_GET_DEBUGREGS @@ -3561,6 +3619,62 @@ Returns: 0 on success, -ENOENT on deassign if the conn_id isn't registered -EEXIST on assign if the conn_id is already registered +4.114 KVM_GET_NESTED_STATE + +Capability: KVM_CAP_NESTED_STATE +Architectures: x86 +Type: vcpu ioctl +Parameters: struct kvm_nested_state (in/out) +Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error +Errors: + E2BIG: the total state size (including the fixed-size part of struct + kvm_nested_state) exceeds the value of 'size' specified by + the user; the size required will be written into size. + +struct kvm_nested_state { + __u16 flags; + __u16 format; + __u32 size; + union { + struct kvm_vmx_nested_state vmx; + struct kvm_svm_nested_state svm; + __u8 pad[120]; + }; + __u8 data[0]; +}; + +#define KVM_STATE_NESTED_GUEST_MODE 0x00000001 +#define KVM_STATE_NESTED_RUN_PENDING 0x00000002 + +#define KVM_STATE_NESTED_SMM_GUEST_MODE 0x00000001 +#define KVM_STATE_NESTED_SMM_VMXON 0x00000002 + +struct kvm_vmx_nested_state { + __u64 vmxon_pa; + __u64 vmcs_pa; + + struct { + __u16 flags; + } smm; +}; + +This ioctl copies the vcpu's nested virtualization state from the kernel to +userspace. + +The maximum size of the state, including the fixed-size part of struct +kvm_nested_state, can be retrieved by passing KVM_CAP_NESTED_STATE to +the KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION ioctl(). + +4.115 KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE + +Capability: KVM_CAP_NESTED_STATE +Architectures: x86 +Type: vcpu ioctl +Parameters: struct kvm_nested_state (in) +Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error + +This copies the vcpu's kvm_nested_state struct from userspace to the kernel. For +the definition of struct kvm_nested_state, see KVM_GET_NESTED_STATE. 5. The kvm_run structure ------------------------ @@ -4391,6 +4505,22 @@ all such vmexits. Do not enable KVM_FEATURE_PV_UNHALT if you disable HLT exits. +7.14 KVM_CAP_S390_HPAGE_1M + +Architectures: s390 +Parameters: none +Returns: 0 on success, -EINVAL if hpage module parameter was not set + or cmma is enabled + +With this capability the KVM support for memory backing with 1m pages +through hugetlbfs can be enabled for a VM. After the capability is +enabled, cmma can't be enabled anymore and pfmfi and the storage key +interpretation are disabled. If cmma has already been enabled or the +hpage module parameter is not set to 1, -EINVAL is returned. + +While it is generally possible to create a huge page backed VM without +this capability, the VM will not be able to run. + 8. Other capabilities. ---------------------- @@ -4610,7 +4740,7 @@ This capability indicates that kvm will implement the interfaces to handle reset, migration and nested KVM for branch prediction blocking. The stfle facility 82 should not be provided to the guest without this capability. -8.14 KVM_CAP_HYPERV_TLBFLUSH +8.18 KVM_CAP_HYPERV_TLBFLUSH Architectures: x86 @@ -4618,3 +4748,17 @@ This capability indicates that KVM supports paravirtualized Hyper-V TLB Flush hypercalls: HvFlushVirtualAddressSpace, HvFlushVirtualAddressSpaceEx, HvFlushVirtualAddressList, HvFlushVirtualAddressListEx. + +8.19 KVM_CAP_ARM_INJECT_SERROR_ESR + +Architectures: arm, arm64 + +This capability indicates that userspace can specify (via the +KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS ioctl) the syndrome value reported to the guest when it +takes a virtual SError interrupt exception. +If KVM advertises this capability, userspace can only specify the ISS field for +the ESR syndrome. Other parts of the ESR, such as the EC are generated by the +CPU when the exception is taken. If this virtual SError is taken to EL1 using +AArch64, this value will be reported in the ISS field of ESR_ELx. + +See KVM_CAP_VCPU_EVENTS for more details. |