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author | Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> | 2010-11-17 00:30:07 +0300 |
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committer | Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> | 2011-01-12 12:29:25 +0300 |
commit | 49f481720438bbd0138218b0bcb494c3512a454f (patch) | |
tree | 9b080ee6a011f42a441033cdebde5c9f2049bfac /Documentation | |
parent | 51de271d441c01e7a0cf39f128827e0b4dc56409 (diff) | |
download | linux-49f481720438bbd0138218b0bcb494c3512a454f.tar.xz |
KVM: Document device assigment API
Adds API documentation for KVM_[DE]ASSIGN_PCI_DEVICE,
KVM_[DE]ASSIGN_DEV_IRQ, KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING, KVM_ASSIGN_SET_MSIX_NR, and
KVM_ASSIGN_SET_MSIX_ENTRY.
Acked-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kvm/api.txt | 178 |
1 files changed, 178 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/kvm/api.txt index b336266bea5e..e1a92977833e 100644 --- a/Documentation/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/kvm/api.txt @@ -1085,6 +1085,184 @@ of 4 instructions that make up a hypercall. If any additional field gets added to this structure later on, a bit for that additional piece of information will be set in the flags bitmap. +4.47 KVM_ASSIGN_PCI_DEVICE + +Capability: KVM_CAP_DEVICE_ASSIGNMENT +Architectures: x86 ia64 +Type: vm ioctl +Parameters: struct kvm_assigned_pci_dev (in) +Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error + +Assigns a host PCI device to the VM. + +struct kvm_assigned_pci_dev { + __u32 assigned_dev_id; + __u32 busnr; + __u32 devfn; + __u32 flags; + __u32 segnr; + union { + __u32 reserved[11]; + }; +}; + +The PCI device is specified by the triple segnr, busnr, and devfn. +Identification in succeeding service requests is done via assigned_dev_id. The +following flags are specified: + +/* Depends on KVM_CAP_IOMMU */ +#define KVM_DEV_ASSIGN_ENABLE_IOMMU (1 << 0) + +4.48 KVM_DEASSIGN_PCI_DEVICE + +Capability: KVM_CAP_DEVICE_DEASSIGNMENT +Architectures: x86 ia64 +Type: vm ioctl +Parameters: struct kvm_assigned_pci_dev (in) +Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error + +Ends PCI device assignment, releasing all associated resources. + +See KVM_CAP_DEVICE_ASSIGNMENT for the data structure. Only assigned_dev_id is +used in kvm_assigned_pci_dev to identify the device. + +4.49 KVM_ASSIGN_DEV_IRQ + +Capability: KVM_CAP_ASSIGN_DEV_IRQ +Architectures: x86 ia64 +Type: vm ioctl +Parameters: struct kvm_assigned_irq (in) +Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error + +Assigns an IRQ to a passed-through device. + +struct kvm_assigned_irq { + __u32 assigned_dev_id; + __u32 host_irq; + __u32 guest_irq; + __u32 flags; + union { + struct { + __u32 addr_lo; + __u32 addr_hi; + __u32 data; + } guest_msi; + __u32 reserved[12]; + }; +}; + +The following flags are defined: + +#define KVM_DEV_IRQ_HOST_INTX (1 << 0) +#define KVM_DEV_IRQ_HOST_MSI (1 << 1) +#define KVM_DEV_IRQ_HOST_MSIX (1 << 2) + +#define KVM_DEV_IRQ_GUEST_INTX (1 << 8) +#define KVM_DEV_IRQ_GUEST_MSI (1 << 9) +#define KVM_DEV_IRQ_GUEST_MSIX (1 << 10) + +It is not valid to specify multiple types per host or guest IRQ. However, the +IRQ type of host and guest can differ or can even be null. + +4.50 KVM_DEASSIGN_DEV_IRQ + +Capability: KVM_CAP_ASSIGN_DEV_IRQ +Architectures: x86 ia64 +Type: vm ioctl +Parameters: struct kvm_assigned_irq (in) +Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error + +Ends an IRQ assignment to a passed-through device. + +See KVM_ASSIGN_DEV_IRQ for the data structure. The target device is specified +by assigned_dev_id, flags must correspond to the IRQ type specified on +KVM_ASSIGN_DEV_IRQ. Partial deassignment of host or guest IRQ is allowed. + +4.51 KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING + +Capability: KVM_CAP_IRQ_ROUTING +Architectures: x86 ia64 +Type: vm ioctl +Parameters: struct kvm_irq_routing (in) +Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error + +Sets the GSI routing table entries, overwriting any previously set entries. + +struct kvm_irq_routing { + __u32 nr; + __u32 flags; + struct kvm_irq_routing_entry entries[0]; +}; + +No flags are specified so far, the corresponding field must be set to zero. + +struct kvm_irq_routing_entry { + __u32 gsi; + __u32 type; + __u32 flags; + __u32 pad; + union { + struct kvm_irq_routing_irqchip irqchip; + struct kvm_irq_routing_msi msi; + __u32 pad[8]; + } u; +}; + +/* gsi routing entry types */ +#define KVM_IRQ_ROUTING_IRQCHIP 1 +#define KVM_IRQ_ROUTING_MSI 2 + +No flags are specified so far, the corresponding field must be set to zero. + +struct kvm_irq_routing_irqchip { + __u32 irqchip; + __u32 pin; +}; + +struct kvm_irq_routing_msi { + __u32 address_lo; + __u32 address_hi; + __u32 data; + __u32 pad; +}; + +4.52 KVM_ASSIGN_SET_MSIX_NR + +Capability: KVM_CAP_DEVICE_MSIX +Architectures: x86 ia64 +Type: vm ioctl +Parameters: struct kvm_assigned_msix_nr (in) +Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error + +Set the number of MSI-X interrupts for an assigned device. This service can +only be called once in the lifetime of an assigned device. + +struct kvm_assigned_msix_nr { + __u32 assigned_dev_id; + __u16 entry_nr; + __u16 padding; +}; + +#define KVM_MAX_MSIX_PER_DEV 256 + +4.53 KVM_ASSIGN_SET_MSIX_ENTRY + +Capability: KVM_CAP_DEVICE_MSIX +Architectures: x86 ia64 +Type: vm ioctl +Parameters: struct kvm_assigned_msix_entry (in) +Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error + +Specifies the routing of an MSI-X assigned device interrupt to a GSI. Setting +the GSI vector to zero means disabling the interrupt. + +struct kvm_assigned_msix_entry { + __u32 assigned_dev_id; + __u32 gsi; + __u16 entry; /* The index of entry in the MSI-X table */ + __u16 padding[3]; +}; + 5. The kvm_run structure Application code obtains a pointer to the kvm_run structure by |