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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt')
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diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt index d9ecceea5a02..092ee9fbaf2b 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt @@ -401,10 +401,9 @@ Capability: basic Architectures: x86, ppc, mips Type: vcpu ioctl Parameters: struct kvm_interrupt (in) -Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error +Returns: 0 on success, negative on failure. -Queues a hardware interrupt vector to be injected. This is only -useful if in-kernel local APIC or equivalent is not used. +Queues a hardware interrupt vector to be injected. /* for KVM_INTERRUPT */ struct kvm_interrupt { @@ -414,7 +413,14 @@ struct kvm_interrupt { X86: -Note 'irq' is an interrupt vector, not an interrupt pin or line. +Returns: 0 on success, + -EEXIST if an interrupt is already enqueued + -EINVAL the the irq number is invalid + -ENXIO if the PIC is in the kernel + -EFAULT if the pointer is invalid + +Note 'irq' is an interrupt vector, not an interrupt pin or line. This +ioctl is useful if the in-kernel PIC is not used. PPC: @@ -1598,7 +1604,7 @@ provided event instead of triggering an exit. struct kvm_ioeventfd { __u64 datamatch; __u64 addr; /* legal pio/mmio address */ - __u32 len; /* 1, 2, 4, or 8 bytes */ + __u32 len; /* 0, 1, 2, 4, or 8 bytes */ __s32 fd; __u32 flags; __u8 pad[36]; @@ -1621,6 +1627,10 @@ to the registered address is equal to datamatch in struct kvm_ioeventfd. For virtio-ccw devices, addr contains the subchannel id and datamatch the virtqueue index. +With KVM_CAP_IOEVENTFD_ANY_LENGTH, a zero length ioeventfd is allowed, and +the kernel will ignore the length of guest write and may get a faster vmexit. +The speedup may only apply to specific architectures, but the ioeventfd will +work anyway. 4.60 KVM_DIRTY_TLB @@ -1774,7 +1784,7 @@ has been called, this interface is completely emulated within the kernel. To use this to emulate the LINT1 input with KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP, use the following algorithm: - - pause the vpcu + - pause the vcpu - read the local APIC's state (KVM_GET_LAPIC) - check whether changing LINT1 will queue an NMI (see the LVT entry for LINT1) - if so, issue KVM_NMI @@ -2798,7 +2808,7 @@ Returns: = 0 on success, < 0 on generic error (e.g. -EFAULT or -ENOMEM), > 0 if an exception occurred while walking the page tables -Read or write data from/to the logical (virtual) memory of a VPCU. +Read or write data from/to the logical (virtual) memory of a VCPU. Parameters are specified via the following structure: @@ -3309,6 +3319,18 @@ Valid values for 'type' are: to ignore the request, or to gather VM memory core dump and/or reset/shutdown of the VM. + /* KVM_EXIT_IOAPIC_EOI */ + struct { + __u8 vector; + } eoi; + +Indicates that the VCPU's in-kernel local APIC received an EOI for a +level-triggered IOAPIC interrupt. This exit only triggers when the +IOAPIC is implemented in userspace (i.e. KVM_CAP_SPLIT_IRQCHIP is enabled); +the userspace IOAPIC should process the EOI and retrigger the interrupt if +it is still asserted. Vector is the LAPIC interrupt vector for which the +EOI was received. + /* Fix the size of the union. */ char padding[256]; }; @@ -3627,6 +3649,26 @@ struct { KVM handlers should exit to userspace with rc = -EREMOTE. +7.5 KVM_CAP_SPLIT_IRQCHIP + +Architectures: x86 +Parameters: args[0] - number of routes reserved for userspace IOAPICs +Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error + +Create a local apic for each processor in the kernel. This can be used +instead of KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP if the userspace VMM wishes to emulate the +IOAPIC and PIC (and also the PIT, even though this has to be enabled +separately). + +This capability also enables in kernel routing of interrupt requests; +when KVM_CAP_SPLIT_IRQCHIP only routes of KVM_IRQ_ROUTING_MSI type are +used in the IRQ routing table. The first args[0] MSI routes are reserved +for the IOAPIC pins. Whenever the LAPIC receives an EOI for these routes, +a KVM_EXIT_IOAPIC_EOI vmexit will be reported to userspace. + +Fails if VCPU has already been created, or if the irqchip is already in the +kernel (i.e. KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP has already been called). + 8. Other capabilities. ---------------------- |