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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 72 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt | 20 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt index 4d93fd65bbbd..0acdbac3a2d7 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt @@ -3619,6 +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 ------------------------ @@ -4449,6 +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. ---------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt index ab022dcd0911..97ca1940a0dc 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt @@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ KVM_FEATURE_ASYNC_PF_VMEXIT || 10 || paravirtualized async PF VM exit || || can be enabled by setting bit 2 || || when writing to msr 0x4b564d02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +KVM_FEATURE_PV_SEND_IPI || 11 || guest checks this feature bit + || || before using paravirtualized + || || send IPIs. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE_STABLE_BIT || 24 || host will warn if no guest-side || || per-cpu warps are expected in || || kvmclock. diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt index a890529c63ed..da24c138c8d1 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt @@ -121,3 +121,23 @@ compute the CLOCK_REALTIME for its clock, at the same instant. Returns KVM_EOPNOTSUPP if the host does not use TSC clocksource, or if clock type is different than KVM_CLOCK_PAIRING_WALLCLOCK. + +6. KVM_HC_SEND_IPI +------------------------ +Architecture: x86 +Status: active +Purpose: Send IPIs to multiple vCPUs. + +a0: lower part of the bitmap of destination APIC IDs +a1: higher part of the bitmap of destination APIC IDs +a2: the lowest APIC ID in bitmap +a3: APIC ICR + +The hypercall lets a guest send multicast IPIs, with at most 128 +128 destinations per hypercall in 64-bit mode and 64 vCPUs per +hypercall in 32-bit mode. The destinations are represented by a +bitmap contained in the first two arguments (a0 and a1). Bit 0 of +a0 corresponds to the APIC ID in the third argument (a2), bit 1 +corresponds to the APIC ID a2+1, and so on. + +Returns the number of CPUs to which the IPIs were delivered successfully. |