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authorJens Freimann <jfrei@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2014-11-24 19:13:46 +0300
committerChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>2015-03-31 22:07:31 +0300
commit816c7667ea97c61884e014cfeedaede5b67b0e58 (patch)
tree0be000b61900a44f9dabe81405b145cbb87b761d /Documentation/virtual
parent79e87a103de1eda0cb4d726cd8581798e2d38f3e (diff)
downloadlinux-816c7667ea97c61884e014cfeedaede5b67b0e58.tar.xz
KVM: s390: migrate vcpu interrupt state
This patch adds support to migrate vcpu interrupts. Two new vcpu ioctls are added which get/set the complete status of pending interrupts in one go. The ioctls are marked as available with the new capability KVM_CAP_S390_IRQ_STATE. We can not use a ONEREG, as the number of pending local interrupts is not constant and depends on the number of CPUs. To retrieve the interrupt state we add an ioctl KVM_S390_GET_IRQ_STATE. Its input parameter is a pointer to a struct kvm_s390_irq_state which has a buffer and length. For all currently pending interrupts, we copy a struct kvm_s390_irq into the buffer and pass it to userspace. To store interrupt state into a buffer provided by userspace, we add an ioctl KVM_S390_SET_IRQ_STATE. It passes a struct kvm_s390_irq_state into the kernel and injects all interrupts contained in the buffer. Signed-off-by: Jens Freimann <jfrei@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
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@@ -2875,6 +2875,67 @@ KVM_S390_MCHK - machine check interrupt; parameters in .mchk
Note that the vcpu ioctl is asynchronous to vcpu execution.
+4.94 KVM_S390_GET_IRQ_STATE
+
+Capability: KVM_CAP_S390_IRQ_STATE
+Architectures: s390
+Type: vcpu ioctl
+Parameters: struct kvm_s390_irq_state (out)
+Returns: >= number of bytes copied into buffer,
+ -EINVAL if buffer size is 0,
+ -ENOBUFS if buffer size is too small to fit all pending interrupts,
+ -EFAULT if the buffer address was invalid
+
+This ioctl allows userspace to retrieve the complete state of all currently
+pending interrupts in a single buffer. Use cases include migration
+and introspection. The parameter structure contains the address of a
+userspace buffer and its length:
+
+struct kvm_s390_irq_state {
+ __u64 buf;
+ __u32 flags;
+ __u32 len;
+ __u32 reserved[4];
+};
+
+Userspace passes in the above struct and for each pending interrupt a
+struct kvm_s390_irq is copied to the provided buffer.
+
+If -ENOBUFS is returned the buffer provided was too small and userspace
+may retry with a bigger buffer.
+
+4.95 KVM_S390_SET_IRQ_STATE
+
+Capability: KVM_CAP_S390_IRQ_STATE
+Architectures: s390
+Type: vcpu ioctl
+Parameters: struct kvm_s390_irq_state (in)
+Returns: 0 on success,
+ -EFAULT if the buffer address was invalid,
+ -EINVAL for an invalid buffer length (see below),
+ -EBUSY if there were already interrupts pending,
+ errors occurring when actually injecting the
+ interrupt. See KVM_S390_IRQ.
+
+This ioctl allows userspace to set the complete state of all cpu-local
+interrupts currently pending for the vcpu. It is intended for restoring
+interrupt state after a migration. The input parameter is a userspace buffer
+containing a struct kvm_s390_irq_state:
+
+struct kvm_s390_irq_state {
+ __u64 buf;
+ __u32 len;
+ __u32 pad;
+};
+
+The userspace memory referenced by buf contains a struct kvm_s390_irq
+for each interrupt to be injected into the guest.
+If one of the interrupts could not be injected for some reason the
+ioctl aborts.
+
+len must be a multiple of sizeof(struct kvm_s390_irq). It must be > 0
+and it must not exceed (max_vcpus + 32) * sizeof(struct kvm_s390_irq),
+which is the maximum number of possibly pending cpu-local interrupts.
5. The kvm_run structure
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