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authorLinus Torvalds2021-03-04 11:26:17 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds2021-03-04 11:26:17 -0800
commitcee407c5cc427a7d9b21ee964fbda613e368bdff (patch)
treed5a5e4a0ec37fd4dc156495389fc5a834f483079 /Documentation/virt/kvm
parentc5a58f877ca645a3303f7a57476f2de837fdb97a (diff)
parent9e46f6c6c959d9bb45445c2e8f04a75324a0dfd0 (diff)
Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Pull KVM fixes from Paolo Bonzini: - Doc fixes - selftests fixes - Add runstate information to the new Xen support - Allow compiling out the Xen interface - 32-bit PAE without EPT bugfix - NULL pointer dereference bugfix * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: KVM: SVM: Clear the CR4 register on reset KVM: x86/xen: Add support for vCPU runstate information KVM: x86/xen: Fix return code when clearing vcpu_info and vcpu_time_info selftests: kvm: Mmap the entire vcpu mmap area KVM: Documentation: Fix index for KVM_CAP_PPC_DAWR1 KVM: x86: allow compiling out the Xen hypercall interface KVM: xen: flush deferred static key before checking it KVM: x86/mmu: Set SPTE_AD_WRPROT_ONLY_MASK if and only if PML is enabled KVM: x86: hyper-v: Fix Hyper-V context null-ptr-deref KVM: x86: remove misplaced comment on active_mmu_pages KVM: Documentation: rectify rst markup in kvm_run->flags Documentation: kvm: fix messy conversion from .txt to .rst
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virt/kvm')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst115
1 files changed, 60 insertions, 55 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
index aed52b0fc16e..1a2b5210cdbf 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
@@ -3856,49 +3856,20 @@ base 2 of the page size in the bottom 6 bits.
-EFAULT if struct kvm_reinject_control cannot be read,
-EINVAL if the supplied shift or flags are invalid,
-ENOMEM if unable to allocate the new HPT,
- -ENOSPC if there was a hash collision
-
-::
-
- struct kvm_ppc_rmmu_info {
- struct kvm_ppc_radix_geom {
- __u8 page_shift;
- __u8 level_bits[4];
- __u8 pad[3];
- } geometries[8];
- __u32 ap_encodings[8];
- };
-
-The geometries[] field gives up to 8 supported geometries for the
-radix page table, in terms of the log base 2 of the smallest page
-size, and the number of bits indexed at each level of the tree, from
-the PTE level up to the PGD level in that order. Any unused entries
-will have 0 in the page_shift field.
-
-The ap_encodings gives the supported page sizes and their AP field
-encodings, encoded with the AP value in the top 3 bits and the log
-base 2 of the page size in the bottom 6 bits.
-
-4.102 KVM_PPC_RESIZE_HPT_PREPARE
---------------------------------
-
-:Capability: KVM_CAP_SPAPR_RESIZE_HPT
-:Architectures: powerpc
-:Type: vm ioctl
-:Parameters: struct kvm_ppc_resize_hpt (in)
-:Returns: 0 on successful completion,
- >0 if a new HPT is being prepared, the value is an estimated
- number of milliseconds until preparation is complete,
- -EFAULT if struct kvm_reinject_control cannot be read,
- -EINVAL if the supplied shift or flags are invalid,when moving existing
- HPT entries to the new HPT,
- -EIO on other error conditions
Used to implement the PAPR extension for runtime resizing of a guest's
Hashed Page Table (HPT). Specifically this starts, stops or monitors
the preparation of a new potential HPT for the guest, essentially
implementing the H_RESIZE_HPT_PREPARE hypercall.
+::
+
+ struct kvm_ppc_resize_hpt {
+ __u64 flags;
+ __u32 shift;
+ __u32 pad;
+ };
+
If called with shift > 0 when there is no pending HPT for the guest,
this begins preparation of a new pending HPT of size 2^(shift) bytes.
It then returns a positive integer with the estimated number of
@@ -3926,14 +3897,6 @@ Normally this will be called repeatedly with the same parameters until
it returns <= 0. The first call will initiate preparation, subsequent
ones will monitor preparation until it completes or fails.
-::
-
- struct kvm_ppc_resize_hpt {
- __u64 flags;
- __u32 shift;
- __u32 pad;
- };
-
4.103 KVM_PPC_RESIZE_HPT_COMMIT
-------------------------------
@@ -3956,6 +3919,14 @@ Hashed Page Table (HPT). Specifically this requests that the guest be
transferred to working with the new HPT, essentially implementing the
H_RESIZE_HPT_COMMIT hypercall.
+::
+
+ struct kvm_ppc_resize_hpt {
+ __u64 flags;
+ __u32 shift;
+ __u32 pad;
+ };
+
This should only be called after KVM_PPC_RESIZE_HPT_PREPARE has
returned 0 with the same parameters. In other cases
KVM_PPC_RESIZE_HPT_COMMIT will return an error (usually -ENXIO or
@@ -3971,14 +3942,6 @@ HPT and the previous HPT will be discarded.
On failure, the guest will still be operating on its previous HPT.
-::
-
- struct kvm_ppc_resize_hpt {
- __u64 flags;
- __u32 shift;
- __u32 pad;
- };
-
4.104 KVM_X86_GET_MCE_CAP_SUPPORTED
-----------------------------------
@@ -4915,6 +4878,14 @@ see KVM_XEN_HVM_SET_ATTR above.
union {
__u64 gpa;
__u64 pad[4];
+ struct {
+ __u64 state;
+ __u64 state_entry_time;
+ __u64 time_running;
+ __u64 time_runnable;
+ __u64 time_blocked;
+ __u64 time_offline;
+ } runstate;
} u;
};
@@ -4927,6 +4898,31 @@ KVM_XEN_VCPU_ATTR_TYPE_VCPU_TIME_INFO
Sets the guest physical address of an additional pvclock structure
for a given vCPU. This is typically used for guest vsyscall support.
+KVM_XEN_VCPU_ATTR_TYPE_RUNSTATE_ADDR
+ Sets the guest physical address of the vcpu_runstate_info for a given
+ vCPU. This is how a Xen guest tracks CPU state such as steal time.
+
+KVM_XEN_VCPU_ATTR_TYPE_RUNSTATE_CURRENT
+ Sets the runstate (RUNSTATE_running/_runnable/_blocked/_offline) of
+ the given vCPU from the .u.runstate.state member of the structure.
+ KVM automatically accounts running and runnable time but blocked
+ and offline states are only entered explicitly.
+
+KVM_XEN_VCPU_ATTR_TYPE_RUNSTATE_DATA
+ Sets all fields of the vCPU runstate data from the .u.runstate member
+ of the structure, including the current runstate. The state_entry_time
+ must equal the sum of the other four times.
+
+KVM_XEN_VCPU_ATTR_TYPE_RUNSTATE_ADJUST
+ This *adds* the contents of the .u.runstate members of the structure
+ to the corresponding members of the given vCPU's runstate data, thus
+ permitting atomic adjustments to the runstate times. The adjustment
+ to the state_entry_time must equal the sum of the adjustments to the
+ other four times. The state field must be set to -1, or to a valid
+ runstate value (RUNSTATE_running, RUNSTATE_runnable, RUNSTATE_blocked
+ or RUNSTATE_offline) to set the current accounted state as of the
+ adjusted state_entry_time.
+
4.130 KVM_XEN_VCPU_GET_ATTR
---------------------------
@@ -4939,6 +4935,9 @@ KVM_XEN_VCPU_ATTR_TYPE_VCPU_TIME_INFO
Allows Xen vCPU attributes to be read. For the structure and types,
see KVM_XEN_VCPU_SET_ATTR above.
+The KVM_XEN_VCPU_ATTR_TYPE_RUNSTATE_ADJUST type may not be used
+with the KVM_XEN_VCPU_GET_ATTR ioctl.
+
5. The kvm_run structure
========================
@@ -5000,7 +4999,8 @@ local APIC is not used.
__u16 flags;
More architecture-specific flags detailing state of the VCPU that may
-affect the device's behavior. Current defined flags:
+affect the device's behavior. Current defined flags::
+
/* x86, set if the VCPU is in system management mode */
#define KVM_RUN_X86_SMM (1 << 0)
/* x86, set if bus lock detected in VM */
@@ -6217,7 +6217,7 @@ the bus lock vm exit can be preempted by a higher priority VM exit, the exit
notifications to userspace can be KVM_EXIT_BUS_LOCK or other reasons.
KVM_RUN_BUS_LOCK flag is used to distinguish between them.
-7.22 KVM_CAP_PPC_DAWR1
+7.23 KVM_CAP_PPC_DAWR1
----------------------
:Architectures: ppc
@@ -6702,6 +6702,7 @@ PVHVM guests. Valid flags are::
#define KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG_HYPERCALL_MSR (1 << 0)
#define KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG_INTERCEPT_HCALL (1 << 1)
#define KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG_SHARED_INFO (1 << 2)
+ #define KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG_RUNSTATE (1 << 2)
The KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG_HYPERCALL_MSR flag indicates that the KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG
ioctl is available, for the guest to set its hypercall page.
@@ -6716,3 +6717,7 @@ KVM_XEN_HVM_SET_ATTR, KVM_XEN_HVM_GET_ATTR, KVM_XEN_VCPU_SET_ATTR and
KVM_XEN_VCPU_GET_ATTR ioctls, as well as the delivery of exception vectors
for event channel upcalls when the evtchn_upcall_pending field of a vcpu's
vcpu_info is set.
+
+The KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG_RUNSTATE flag indicates that the runstate-related
+features KVM_XEN_VCPU_ATTR_TYPE_RUNSTATE_ADDR/_CURRENT/_DATA/_ADJUST are
+supported by the KVM_XEN_VCPU_SET_ATTR/KVM_XEN_VCPU_GET_ATTR ioctls.