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diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt deleted file mode 100644 index f3f0d57ced8e..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,275 +0,0 @@ -KVM-specific MSRs. -Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>, Red Hat Inc, 2010 -===================================================== - -KVM makes use of some custom MSRs to service some requests. - -Custom MSRs have a range reserved for them, that goes from -0x4b564d00 to 0x4b564dff. There are MSRs outside this area, -but they are deprecated and their use is discouraged. - -Custom MSR list --------- - -The current supported Custom MSR list is: - -MSR_KVM_WALL_CLOCK_NEW: 0x4b564d00 - - data: 4-byte alignment physical address of a memory area which must be - in guest RAM. This memory is expected to hold a copy of the following - structure: - - struct pvclock_wall_clock { - u32 version; - u32 sec; - u32 nsec; - } __attribute__((__packed__)); - - whose data will be filled in by the hypervisor. The hypervisor is only - guaranteed to update this data at the moment of MSR write. - Users that want to reliably query this information more than once have - to write more than once to this MSR. Fields have the following meanings: - - version: guest has to check version before and after grabbing - time information and check that they are both equal and even. - An odd version indicates an in-progress update. - - sec: number of seconds for wallclock at time of boot. - - nsec: number of nanoseconds for wallclock at time of boot. - - In order to get the current wallclock time, the system_time from - MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME_NEW needs to be added. - - Note that although MSRs are per-CPU entities, the effect of this - particular MSR is global. - - Availability of this MSR must be checked via bit 3 in 0x4000001 cpuid - leaf prior to usage. - -MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME_NEW: 0x4b564d01 - - data: 4-byte aligned physical address of a memory area which must be in - guest RAM, plus an enable bit in bit 0. This memory is expected to hold - a copy of the following structure: - - struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info { - u32 version; - u32 pad0; - u64 tsc_timestamp; - u64 system_time; - u32 tsc_to_system_mul; - s8 tsc_shift; - u8 flags; - u8 pad[2]; - } __attribute__((__packed__)); /* 32 bytes */ - - whose data will be filled in by the hypervisor periodically. Only one - write, or registration, is needed for each VCPU. The interval between - updates of this structure is arbitrary and implementation-dependent. - The hypervisor may update this structure at any time it sees fit until - anything with bit0 == 0 is written to it. - - Fields have the following meanings: - - version: guest has to check version before and after grabbing - time information and check that they are both equal and even. - An odd version indicates an in-progress update. - - tsc_timestamp: the tsc value at the current VCPU at the time - of the update of this structure. Guests can subtract this value - from current tsc to derive a notion of elapsed time since the - structure update. - - system_time: a host notion of monotonic time, including sleep - time at the time this structure was last updated. Unit is - nanoseconds. - - tsc_to_system_mul: multiplier to be used when converting - tsc-related quantity to nanoseconds - - tsc_shift: shift to be used when converting tsc-related - quantity to nanoseconds. This shift will ensure that - multiplication with tsc_to_system_mul does not overflow. - A positive value denotes a left shift, a negative value - a right shift. - - The conversion from tsc to nanoseconds involves an additional - right shift by 32 bits. With this information, guests can - derive per-CPU time by doing: - - time = (current_tsc - tsc_timestamp) - if (tsc_shift >= 0) - time <<= tsc_shift; - else - time >>= -tsc_shift; - time = (time * tsc_to_system_mul) >> 32 - time = time + system_time - - flags: bits in this field indicate extended capabilities - coordinated between the guest and the hypervisor. Availability - of specific flags has to be checked in 0x40000001 cpuid leaf. - Current flags are: - - flag bit | cpuid bit | meaning - ------------------------------------------------------------- - | | time measures taken across - 0 | 24 | multiple cpus are guaranteed to - | | be monotonic - ------------------------------------------------------------- - | | guest vcpu has been paused by - 1 | N/A | the host - | | See 4.70 in api.txt - ------------------------------------------------------------- - - Availability of this MSR must be checked via bit 3 in 0x4000001 cpuid - leaf prior to usage. - - -MSR_KVM_WALL_CLOCK: 0x11 - - data and functioning: same as MSR_KVM_WALL_CLOCK_NEW. Use that instead. - - This MSR falls outside the reserved KVM range and may be removed in the - future. Its usage is deprecated. - - Availability of this MSR must be checked via bit 0 in 0x4000001 cpuid - leaf prior to usage. - -MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME: 0x12 - - data and functioning: same as MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME_NEW. Use that instead. - - This MSR falls outside the reserved KVM range and may be removed in the - future. Its usage is deprecated. - - Availability of this MSR must be checked via bit 0 in 0x4000001 cpuid - leaf prior to usage. - - The suggested algorithm for detecting kvmclock presence is then: - - if (!kvm_para_available()) /* refer to cpuid.txt */ - return NON_PRESENT; - - flags = cpuid_eax(0x40000001); - if (flags & 3) { - msr_kvm_system_time = MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME_NEW; - msr_kvm_wall_clock = MSR_KVM_WALL_CLOCK_NEW; - return PRESENT; - } else if (flags & 0) { - msr_kvm_system_time = MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME; - msr_kvm_wall_clock = MSR_KVM_WALL_CLOCK; - return PRESENT; - } else - return NON_PRESENT; - -MSR_KVM_ASYNC_PF_EN: 0x4b564d02 - data: Bits 63-6 hold 64-byte aligned physical address of a - 64 byte memory area which must be in guest RAM and must be - zeroed. Bits 5-3 are reserved and should be zero. Bit 0 is 1 - when asynchronous page faults are enabled on the vcpu 0 when - disabled. Bit 1 is 1 if asynchronous page faults can be injected - when vcpu is in cpl == 0. Bit 2 is 1 if asynchronous page faults - are delivered to L1 as #PF vmexits. Bit 2 can be set only if - KVM_FEATURE_ASYNC_PF_VMEXIT is present in CPUID. - - First 4 byte of 64 byte memory location will be written to by - the hypervisor at the time of asynchronous page fault (APF) - injection to indicate type of asynchronous page fault. Value - of 1 means that the page referred to by the page fault is not - present. Value 2 means that the page is now available. Disabling - interrupt inhibits APFs. Guest must not enable interrupt - before the reason is read, or it may be overwritten by another - APF. Since APF uses the same exception vector as regular page - fault guest must reset the reason to 0 before it does - something that can generate normal page fault. If during page - fault APF reason is 0 it means that this is regular page - fault. - - During delivery of type 1 APF cr2 contains a token that will - be used to notify a guest when missing page becomes - available. When page becomes available type 2 APF is sent with - cr2 set to the token associated with the page. There is special - kind of token 0xffffffff which tells vcpu that it should wake - up all processes waiting for APFs and no individual type 2 APFs - will be sent. - - If APF is disabled while there are outstanding APFs, they will - not be delivered. - - Currently type 2 APF will be always delivered on the same vcpu as - type 1 was, but guest should not rely on that. - -MSR_KVM_STEAL_TIME: 0x4b564d03 - - data: 64-byte alignment physical address of a memory area which must be - in guest RAM, plus an enable bit in bit 0. This memory is expected to - hold a copy of the following structure: - - struct kvm_steal_time { - __u64 steal; - __u32 version; - __u32 flags; - __u8 preempted; - __u8 u8_pad[3]; - __u32 pad[11]; - } - - whose data will be filled in by the hypervisor periodically. Only one - write, or registration, is needed for each VCPU. The interval between - updates of this structure is arbitrary and implementation-dependent. - The hypervisor may update this structure at any time it sees fit until - anything with bit0 == 0 is written to it. Guest is required to make sure - this structure is initialized to zero. - - Fields have the following meanings: - - version: a sequence counter. In other words, guest has to check - this field before and after grabbing time information and make - sure they are both equal and even. An odd version indicates an - in-progress update. - - flags: At this point, always zero. May be used to indicate - changes in this structure in the future. - - steal: the amount of time in which this vCPU did not run, in - nanoseconds. Time during which the vcpu is idle, will not be - reported as steal time. - - preempted: indicate the vCPU who owns this struct is running or - not. Non-zero values mean the vCPU has been preempted. Zero - means the vCPU is not preempted. NOTE, it is always zero if the - the hypervisor doesn't support this field. - -MSR_KVM_EOI_EN: 0x4b564d04 - data: Bit 0 is 1 when PV end of interrupt is enabled on the vcpu; 0 - when disabled. Bit 1 is reserved and must be zero. When PV end of - interrupt is enabled (bit 0 set), bits 63-2 hold a 4-byte aligned - physical address of a 4 byte memory area which must be in guest RAM and - must be zeroed. - - The first, least significant bit of 4 byte memory location will be - written to by the hypervisor, typically at the time of interrupt - injection. Value of 1 means that guest can skip writing EOI to the apic - (using MSR or MMIO write); instead, it is sufficient to signal - EOI by clearing the bit in guest memory - this location will - later be polled by the hypervisor. - Value of 0 means that the EOI write is required. - - It is always safe for the guest to ignore the optimization and perform - the APIC EOI write anyway. - - Hypervisor is guaranteed to only modify this least - significant bit while in the current VCPU context, this means that - guest does not need to use either lock prefix or memory ordering - primitives to synchronise with the hypervisor. - - However, hypervisor can set and clear this memory bit at any time: - therefore to make sure hypervisor does not interrupt the - guest and clear the least significant bit in the memory area - in the window between guest testing it to detect - whether it can skip EOI apic write and between guest - clearing it to signal EOI to the hypervisor, - guest must both read the least significant bit in the memory area and - clear it using a single CPU instruction, such as test and clear, or - compare and exchange. |