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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 85 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/mmu.rst | 8 |
3 files changed, 92 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 2fba82431efb..86a2456d94ba 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -4150,6 +4150,14 @@ Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. e.g. pmtmr=0x508 + pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU. + This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no + longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the + PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is + cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to + that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 + remains 0. + pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst index aeeb071c7688..d3791a14eb9a 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst @@ -371,6 +371,9 @@ The bits in the dirty bitmap are cleared before the ioctl returns, unless KVM_CAP_MANUAL_DIRTY_LOG_PROTECT2 is enabled. For more information, see the description of the capability. +Note that the Xen shared info page, if configured, shall always be assumed +to be dirty. KVM will not explicitly mark it such. + 4.9 KVM_SET_MEMORY_ALIAS ------------------------ @@ -1566,6 +1569,7 @@ otherwise it will return EBUSY error. struct kvm_xsave { __u32 region[1024]; + __u32 extra[0]; }; This ioctl would copy current vcpu's xsave struct to the userspace. @@ -1574,7 +1578,7 @@ This ioctl would copy current vcpu's xsave struct to the userspace. 4.43 KVM_SET_XSAVE ------------------ -:Capability: KVM_CAP_XSAVE +:Capability: KVM_CAP_XSAVE and KVM_CAP_XSAVE2 :Architectures: x86 :Type: vcpu ioctl :Parameters: struct kvm_xsave (in) @@ -1585,9 +1589,18 @@ This ioctl would copy current vcpu's xsave struct to the userspace. struct kvm_xsave { __u32 region[1024]; + __u32 extra[0]; }; -This ioctl would copy userspace's xsave struct to the kernel. +This ioctl would copy userspace's xsave struct to the kernel. It copies +as many bytes as are returned by KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION(KVM_CAP_XSAVE2), +when invoked on the vm file descriptor. The size value returned by +KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION(KVM_CAP_XSAVE2) will always be at least 4096. +Currently, it is only greater than 4096 if a dynamic feature has been +enabled with ``arch_prctl()``, but this may change in the future. + +The offsets of the state save areas in struct kvm_xsave follow the +contents of CPUID leaf 0xD on the host. 4.44 KVM_GET_XCRS @@ -1684,6 +1697,10 @@ userspace capabilities, and with user requirements (for example, the user may wish to constrain cpuid to emulate older hardware, or for feature consistency across a cluster). +Dynamically-enabled feature bits need to be requested with +``arch_prctl()`` before calling this ioctl. Feature bits that have not +been requested are excluded from the result. + Note that certain capabilities, such as KVM_CAP_X86_DISABLE_EXITS, may expose cpuid features (e.g. MONITOR) which are not supported by kvm in its default configuration. If userspace enables such capabilities, it @@ -1796,6 +1813,7 @@ No flags are specified so far, the corresponding field must be set to zero. struct kvm_irq_routing_msi msi; struct kvm_irq_routing_s390_adapter adapter; struct kvm_irq_routing_hv_sint hv_sint; + struct kvm_irq_routing_xen_evtchn xen_evtchn; __u32 pad[8]; } u; }; @@ -1805,6 +1823,7 @@ No flags are specified so far, the corresponding field must be set to zero. #define KVM_IRQ_ROUTING_MSI 2 #define KVM_IRQ_ROUTING_S390_ADAPTER 3 #define KVM_IRQ_ROUTING_HV_SINT 4 + #define KVM_IRQ_ROUTING_XEN_EVTCHN 5 flags: @@ -1856,6 +1875,20 @@ address_hi must be zero. __u32 sint; }; + struct kvm_irq_routing_xen_evtchn { + __u32 port; + __u32 vcpu; + __u32 priority; + }; + + +When KVM_CAP_XEN_HVM includes the KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG_EVTCHN_2LEVEL bit +in its indication of supported features, routing to Xen event channels +is supported. Although the priority field is present, only the value +KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG_EVTCHN_2LEVEL is supported, which means delivery by +2 level event channels. FIFO event channel support may be added in +the future. + 4.55 KVM_SET_TSC_KHZ -------------------- @@ -3701,7 +3734,7 @@ KVM with the currently defined set of flags. :Architectures: s390 :Type: vm ioctl :Parameters: struct kvm_s390_skeys -:Returns: 0 on success, KVM_S390_GET_KEYS_NONE if guest is not using storage +:Returns: 0 on success, KVM_S390_GET_SKEYS_NONE if guest is not using storage keys, negative value on error This ioctl is used to get guest storage key values on the s390 @@ -3720,7 +3753,7 @@ you want to get. The count field is the number of consecutive frames (starting from start_gfn) whose storage keys to get. The count field must be at least 1 and the maximum -allowed value is defined as KVM_S390_SKEYS_ALLOC_MAX. Values outside this range +allowed value is defined as KVM_S390_SKEYS_MAX. Values outside this range will cause the ioctl to return -EINVAL. The skeydata_addr field is the address to a buffer large enough to hold count @@ -3744,7 +3777,7 @@ you want to set. The count field is the number of consecutive frames (starting from start_gfn) whose storage keys to get. The count field must be at least 1 and the maximum -allowed value is defined as KVM_S390_SKEYS_ALLOC_MAX. Values outside this range +allowed value is defined as KVM_S390_SKEYS_MAX. Values outside this range will cause the ioctl to return -EINVAL. The skeydata_addr field is the address to a buffer containing count bytes of @@ -5134,6 +5167,15 @@ KVM_XEN_ATTR_TYPE_SHARED_INFO not aware of the Xen CPU id which is used as the index into the vcpu_info[] array, so cannot know the correct default location. + Note that the shared info page may be constantly written to by KVM; + it contains the event channel bitmap used to deliver interrupts to + a Xen guest, amongst other things. It is exempt from dirty tracking + mechanisms — KVM will not explicitly mark the page as dirty each + time an event channel interrupt is delivered to the guest! Thus, + userspace should always assume that the designated GFN is dirty if + any vCPU has been running or any event channel interrupts can be + routed to the guest. + KVM_XEN_ATTR_TYPE_UPCALL_VECTOR Sets the exception vector used to deliver Xen event channel upcalls. @@ -5503,6 +5545,34 @@ the trailing ``'\0'``, is indicated by ``name_size`` in the header. The Stats Data block contains an array of 64-bit values in the same order as the descriptors in Descriptors block. +4.42 KVM_GET_XSAVE2 +------------------ + +:Capability: KVM_CAP_XSAVE2 +:Architectures: x86 +:Type: vcpu ioctl +:Parameters: struct kvm_xsave (out) +:Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error + + +:: + + struct kvm_xsave { + __u32 region[1024]; + __u32 extra[0]; + }; + +This ioctl would copy current vcpu's xsave struct to the userspace. It +copies as many bytes as are returned by KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION(KVM_CAP_XSAVE2) +when invoked on the vm file descriptor. The size value returned by +KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION(KVM_CAP_XSAVE2) will always be at least 4096. +Currently, it is only greater than 4096 if a dynamic feature has been +enabled with ``arch_prctl()``, but this may change in the future. + +The offsets of the state save areas in struct kvm_xsave follow the contents +of CPUID leaf 0xD on the host. + + 5. The kvm_run structure ======================== @@ -7401,6 +7471,7 @@ PVHVM guests. Valid flags are:: #define KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG_INTERCEPT_HCALL (1 << 1) #define KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG_SHARED_INFO (1 << 2) #define KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG_RUNSTATE (1 << 2) + #define KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG_EVTCHN_2LEVEL (1 << 3) The KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG_HYPERCALL_MSR flag indicates that the KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG ioctl is available, for the guest to set its hypercall page. @@ -7420,6 +7491,10 @@ The KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG_RUNSTATE flag indicates that the runstate-related features KVM_XEN_VCPU_ATTR_TYPE_RUNSTATE_ADDR/_CURRENT/_DATA/_ADJUST are supported by the KVM_XEN_VCPU_SET_ATTR/KVM_XEN_VCPU_GET_ATTR ioctls. +The KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG_EVTCHN_2LEVEL flag indicates that IRQ routing entries +of the type KVM_IRQ_ROUTING_XEN_EVTCHN are supported, with the priority +field set to indicate 2 level event channel delivery. + 8.31 KVM_CAP_PPC_MULTITCE ------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/mmu.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/mmu.rst index f60f5488e121..5b1ebad24c77 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/mmu.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/mmu.rst @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information: If clear, this page corresponds to a guest page table denoted by the gfn field. role.quadrant: - When role.gpte_is_8_bytes=0, the guest uses 32-bit gptes while the host uses 64-bit + When role.has_4_byte_gpte=1, the guest uses 32-bit gptes while the host uses 64-bit sptes. That means a guest page table contains more ptes than the host, so multiple shadow pages are needed to shadow one guest page. For first-level shadow pages, role.quadrant can be 0 or 1 and denotes the @@ -177,9 +177,9 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information: The page is invalid and should not be used. It is a root page that is currently pinned (by a cpu hardware register pointing to it); once it is unpinned it will be destroyed. - role.gpte_is_8_bytes: - Reflects the size of the guest PTE for which the page is valid, i.e. '1' - if 64-bit gptes are in use, '0' if 32-bit gptes are in use. + role.has_4_byte_gpte: + Reflects the size of the guest PTE for which the page is valid, i.e. '0' + if direct map or 64-bit gptes are in use, '1' if 32-bit gptes are in use. role.efer_nx: Contains the value of efer.nx for which the page is valid. role.cr0_wp: |