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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-02-23 05:22:53 +0300 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-02-23 05:22:53 +0300 |
commit | fd7e9a88348472521d999434ee02f25735c7dadf (patch) | |
tree | 90e6249e58d90ba9d590cfed4481c29ca36a05dc /Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt | |
parent | 5066e4a34081dd82fb625f2f382bfa29ca421a3f (diff) | |
parent | dd0fd8bca1850ddadf5d33a9ed28f3707cd98ac7 (diff) | |
download | linux-fd7e9a88348472521d999434ee02f25735c7dadf.tar.xz |
Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"4.11 is going to be a relatively large release for KVM, with a little
over 200 commits and noteworthy changes for most architectures.
ARM:
- GICv3 save/restore
- cache flushing fixes
- working MSI injection for GICv3 ITS
- physical timer emulation
MIPS:
- various improvements under the hood
- support for SMP guests
- a large rewrite of MMU emulation. KVM MIPS can now use MMU
notifiers to support copy-on-write, KSM, idle page tracking,
swapping, ballooning and everything else. KVM_CAP_READONLY_MEM is
also supported, so that writes to some memory regions can be
treated as MMIO. The new MMU also paves the way for hardware
virtualization support.
PPC:
- support for POWER9 using the radix-tree MMU for host and guest
- resizable hashed page table
- bugfixes.
s390:
- expose more features to the guest
- more SIMD extensions
- instruction execution protection
- ESOP2
x86:
- improved hashing in the MMU
- faster PageLRU tracking for Intel CPUs without EPT A/D bits
- some refactoring of nested VMX entry/exit code, preparing for live
migration support of nested hypervisors
- expose yet another AVX512 CPUID bit
- host-to-guest PTP support
- refactoring of interrupt injection, with some optimizations thrown
in and some duct tape removed.
- remove lazy FPU handling
- optimizations of user-mode exits
- optimizations of vcpu_is_preempted() for KVM guests
generic:
- alternative signaling mechanism that doesn't pound on
tsk->sighand->siglock"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (195 commits)
x86/kvm: Provide optimized version of vcpu_is_preempted() for x86-64
x86/paravirt: Change vcp_is_preempted() arg type to long
KVM: VMX: use correct vmcs_read/write for guest segment selector/base
x86/kvm/vmx: Defer TR reload after VM exit
x86/asm/64: Drop __cacheline_aligned from struct x86_hw_tss
x86/kvm/vmx: Simplify segment_base()
x86/kvm/vmx: Get rid of segment_base() on 64-bit kernels
x86/kvm/vmx: Don't fetch the TSS base from the GDT
x86/asm: Define the kernel TSS limit in a macro
kvm: fix page struct leak in handle_vmon
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Disable HPT resizing on POWER9 for now
KVM: Return an error code only as a constant in kvm_get_dirty_log()
KVM: Return an error code only as a constant in kvm_get_dirty_log_protect()
KVM: Return directly after a failed copy_from_user() in kvm_vm_compat_ioctl()
KVM: x86: remove code for lazy FPU handling
KVM: race-free exit from KVM_RUN without POSIX signals
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Turn "KVM guest htab" message into a debug message
KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Ratelimit copy data failure error messages
KVM: Support vCPU-based gfn->hva cache
KVM: use separate generations for each address space
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diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt index c8d040e27046..feaaa634f154 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt @@ -81,3 +81,38 @@ the vcpu to sleep until occurrence of an appropriate event. Another vcpu of the same guest can wakeup the sleeping vcpu by issuing KVM_HC_KICK_CPU hypercall, specifying APIC ID (a1) of the vcpu to be woken up. An additional argument (a0) is used in the hypercall for future use. + + +6. KVM_HC_CLOCK_PAIRING +------------------------ +Architecture: x86 +Status: active +Purpose: Hypercall used to synchronize host and guest clocks. +Usage: + +a0: guest physical address where host copies +"struct kvm_clock_offset" structure. + +a1: clock_type, ATM only KVM_CLOCK_PAIRING_WALLCLOCK (0) +is supported (corresponding to the host's CLOCK_REALTIME clock). + + struct kvm_clock_pairing { + __s64 sec; + __s64 nsec; + __u64 tsc; + __u32 flags; + __u32 pad[9]; + }; + + Where: + * sec: seconds from clock_type clock. + * nsec: nanoseconds from clock_type clock. + * tsc: guest TSC value used to calculate sec/nsec pair + * flags: flags, unused (0) at the moment. + +The hypercall lets a guest compute a precise timestamp across +host and guest. The guest can use the returned TSC value to +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. |