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diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt index 284d36e72f28..dbbb95d5798a 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt @@ -907,6 +907,18 @@ SError is pending, the architecture's 'Multiple SError interrupts' rules should be followed. (2.5.3 of DDI0587.a "ARM Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) Specification"). +SError exceptions always have an ESR value. Some CPUs have the ability to +specify what the virtual SError's ESR value should be. These systems will +advertise KVM_CAP_ARM_SET_SERROR_ESR. In this case exception.has_esr will +always have a non-zero value when read, and the agent making an SError pending +should specify the ISS field in the lower 24 bits of exception.serror_esr. If +the system supports KVM_CAP_ARM_SET_SERROR_ESR, but user-space sets the events +with exception.has_esr as zero, KVM will choose an ESR. + +Specifying exception.has_esr on a system that does not support it will return +-EINVAL. Setting anything other than the lower 24bits of exception.serror_esr +will return -EINVAL. + struct kvm_vcpu_events { struct { __u8 serror_pending; @@ -4664,3 +4676,17 @@ This capability indicates that KVM supports paravirtualized Hyper-V TLB Flush hypercalls: HvFlushVirtualAddressSpace, HvFlushVirtualAddressSpaceEx, HvFlushVirtualAddressList, HvFlushVirtualAddressListEx. + +8.19 KVM_CAP_ARM_SET_SERROR_ESR + +Architectures: arm, arm64 + +This capability indicates that userspace can specify (via the +KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS ioctl) the syndrome value reported to the guest when it +takes a virtual SError interrupt exception. +If KVM advertises this capability, userspace can only specify the ISS field for +the ESR syndrome. Other parts of the ESR, such as the EC are generated by the +CPU when the exception is taken. If this virtual SError is taken to EL1 using +AArch64, this value will be reported in the ISS field of ESR_ELx. + +See KVM_CAP_VCPU_EVENTS for more details. |