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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2019-12-10 12:11:00 +0300 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2019-12-10 12:11:00 +0300 |
| commit | 2040cf9f59037aa8aec749363e69ead165b67b43 (patch) | |
| tree | e9c15448e841cc493bc80b9f658d7955623e86dd /Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt | |
| parent | f66c0447cca1281116224d474cdb37d6a18e4b5b (diff) | |
| parent | e42617b825f8073569da76dc4510bfa019b1c35a (diff) | |
| download | linux-2040cf9f59037aa8aec749363e69ead165b67b43.tar.xz | |
Merge tag 'v5.5-rc1' into core/kprobes, to resolve conflicts
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt index 49183add44e7..ebb37b34dcfc 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ The Definitive KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) API Documentation ---------------------- The kvm API is a set of ioctls that are issued to control various aspects -of a virtual machine. The ioctls belong to three classes: +of a virtual machine. The ioctls belong to the following classes: - System ioctls: These query and set global attributes which affect the whole kvm subsystem. In addition a system ioctl is used to create @@ -4149,6 +4149,24 @@ Valid values for 'action': #define KVM_PMU_EVENT_ALLOW 0 #define KVM_PMU_EVENT_DENY 1 +4.121 KVM_PPC_SVM_OFF + +Capability: basic +Architectures: powerpc +Type: vm ioctl +Parameters: none +Returns: 0 on successful completion, +Errors: + EINVAL: if ultravisor failed to terminate the secure guest + ENOMEM: if hypervisor failed to allocate new radix page tables for guest + +This ioctl is used to turn off the secure mode of the guest or transition +the guest from secure mode to normal mode. This is invoked when the guest +is reset. This has no effect if called for a normal guest. + +This ioctl issues an ultravisor call to terminate the secure guest, +unpins the VPA pages and releases all the device pages that are used to +track the secure pages by hypervisor. 5. The kvm_run structure ------------------------ |