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authorChristoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>2014-10-16 19:00:18 +0400
committerChristoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>2014-12-13 16:15:27 +0300
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arm/arm64: KVM: Turn off vcpus on PSCI shutdown/reboot
When a vcpu calls SYSTEM_OFF or SYSTEM_RESET with PSCI v0.2, the vcpus should really be turned off for the VM adhering to the suggestions in the PSCI spec, and it's the sane thing to do. Also, clarify the behavior and expectations for exits to user space with the KVM_EXIT_SYSTEM_EVENT case. Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
index 81f1b974c06a..228f9cf5a5b5 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
@@ -2957,6 +2957,15 @@ HVC instruction based PSCI call from the vcpu. The 'type' field describes
the system-level event type. The 'flags' field describes architecture
specific flags for the system-level event.
+Valid values for 'type' are:
+ KVM_SYSTEM_EVENT_SHUTDOWN -- the guest has requested a shutdown of the
+ VM. Userspace is not obliged to honour this, and if it does honour
+ this does not need to destroy the VM synchronously (ie it may call
+ KVM_RUN again before shutdown finally occurs).
+ KVM_SYSTEM_EVENT_RESET -- the guest has requested a reset of the VM.
+ As with SHUTDOWN, userspace can choose to ignore the request, or
+ to schedule the reset to occur in the future and may call KVM_RUN again.
+
/* Fix the size of the union. */
char padding[256];
};