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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-03-16 19:55:35 +0300 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-03-16 19:55:35 +0300 |
commit | 10dc3747661bea9215417b659449bb7b8ed3df2c (patch) | |
tree | d943974b4941203a7db2fabe4896852cf0f16bc4 /Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vcpu.txt | |
parent | 047486d8e7c2a7e8d75b068b69cb67b47364f5d4 (diff) | |
parent | f958ee745f70b60d0e41927cab2c073104bc70c2 (diff) | |
download | linux-10dc3747661bea9215417b659449bb7b8ed3df2c.tar.xz |
Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"One of the largest releases for KVM... Hardly any generic
changes, but lots of architecture-specific updates.
ARM:
- VHE support so that we can run the kernel at EL2 on ARMv8.1 systems
- PMU support for guests
- 32bit world switch rewritten in C
- various optimizations to the vgic save/restore code.
PPC:
- enabled KVM-VFIO integration ("VFIO device")
- optimizations to speed up IPIs between vcpus
- in-kernel handling of IOMMU hypercalls
- support for dynamic DMA windows (DDW).
s390:
- provide the floating point registers via sync regs;
- separated instruction vs. data accesses
- dirty log improvements for huge guests
- bugfixes and documentation improvements.
x86:
- Hyper-V VMBus hypercall userspace exit
- alternative implementation of lowest-priority interrupts using
vector hashing (for better VT-d posted interrupt support)
- fixed guest debugging with nested virtualizations
- improved interrupt tracking in the in-kernel IOAPIC
- generic infrastructure for tracking writes to guest
memory - currently its only use is to speedup the legacy shadow
paging (pre-EPT) case, but in the future it will be used for
virtual GPUs as well
- much cleanup (LAPIC, kvmclock, MMU, PIT), including ubsan fixes"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (217 commits)
KVM: x86: remove eager_fpu field of struct kvm_vcpu_arch
KVM: x86: disable MPX if host did not enable MPX XSAVE features
arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Only wipe LRs on vcpu exit
arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Reset LRs at boot time
arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Do not save an LR known to be empty
arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Save maintenance interrupt state only if required
arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Avoid accessing ICH registers
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Make GICD_SGIR quicker to hit
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Only wipe LRs on vcpu exit
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Reset LRs at boot time
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Do not save an LR known to be empty
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Move GICH_ELRSR saving to its own function
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Save maintenance interrupt state only if required
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Avoid accessing GICH registers
KVM: s390: allocate only one DMA page per VM
KVM: s390: enable STFLE interpretation only if enabled for the guest
KVM: s390: wake up when the VCPU cpu timer expires
KVM: s390: step the VCPU timer while in enabled wait
KVM: s390: protect VCPU cpu timer with a seqcount
KVM: s390: step VCPU cpu timer during kvm_run ioctl
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diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vcpu.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vcpu.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..c04165868faf --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vcpu.txt @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +Generic vcpu interface +==================================== + +The virtual cpu "device" also accepts the ioctls KVM_SET_DEVICE_ATTR, +KVM_GET_DEVICE_ATTR, and KVM_HAS_DEVICE_ATTR. The interface uses the same struct +kvm_device_attr as other devices, but targets VCPU-wide settings and controls. + +The groups and attributes per virtual cpu, if any, are architecture specific. + +1. GROUP: KVM_ARM_VCPU_PMU_V3_CTRL +Architectures: ARM64 + +1.1. ATTRIBUTE: KVM_ARM_VCPU_PMU_V3_IRQ +Parameters: in kvm_device_attr.addr the address for PMU overflow interrupt is a + pointer to an int +Returns: -EBUSY: The PMU overflow interrupt is already set + -ENXIO: The overflow interrupt not set when attempting to get it + -ENODEV: PMUv3 not supported + -EINVAL: Invalid PMU overflow interrupt number supplied + +A value describing the PMUv3 (Performance Monitor Unit v3) overflow interrupt +number for this vcpu. This interrupt could be a PPI or SPI, but the interrupt +type must be same for each vcpu. As a PPI, the interrupt number is the same for +all vcpus, while as an SPI it must be a separate number per vcpu. + +1.2 ATTRIBUTE: KVM_ARM_VCPU_PMU_V3_INIT +Parameters: no additional parameter in kvm_device_attr.addr +Returns: -ENODEV: PMUv3 not supported + -ENXIO: PMUv3 not properly configured as required prior to calling this + attribute + -EBUSY: PMUv3 already initialized + +Request the initialization of the PMUv3. |