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authorLinus Torvalds2018-06-12 11:34:04 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds2018-06-12 11:34:04 -0700
commitb357bf6023a948cf6a9472f07a1b0caac0e4f8e8 (patch)
tree1471a2691cd56e8640cf6ad51e255b54903a164b /Documentation
parent0725d4e1b8b08a60838db3a6e65c23ea8824a048 (diff)
parent766d3571d8e50d3a73b77043dc632226f9e6b389 (diff)
Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini: "Small update for KVM: ARM: - lazy context-switching of FPSIMD registers on arm64 - "split" regions for vGIC redistributor s390: - cleanups for nested - clock handling - crypto - storage keys - control register bits x86: - many bugfixes - implement more Hyper-V super powers - implement lapic_timer_advance_ns even when the LAPIC timer is emulated using the processor's VMX preemption timer. - two security-related bugfixes at the top of the branch" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (79 commits) kvm: fix typo in flag name kvm: x86: use correct privilege level for sgdt/sidt/fxsave/fxrstor access KVM: x86: pass kvm_vcpu to kvm_read_guest_virt and kvm_write_guest_virt_system KVM: x86: introduce linear_{read,write}_system kvm: nVMX: Enforce cpl=0 for VMX instructions kvm: nVMX: Add support for "VMWRITE to any supported field" kvm: nVMX: Restrict VMX capability MSR changes KVM: VMX: Optimize tscdeadline timer latency KVM: docs: nVMX: Remove known limitations as they do not exist now KVM: docs: mmu: KVM support exposing SLAT to guests kvm: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions kvm: Make VM ioctl do valloc for some archs kvm: Change return type to vm_fault_t KVM: docs: mmu: Fix link to NPT presentation from KVM Forum 2008 kvm: x86: Amend the KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID API documentation KVM: x86: hyperv: declare KVM_CAP_HYPERV_TLBFLUSH capability KVM: x86: hyperv: simplistic HVCALL_FLUSH_VIRTUAL_ADDRESS_{LIST,SPACE}_EX implementation KVM: x86: hyperv: simplistic HVCALL_FLUSH_VIRTUAL_ADDRESS_{LIST,SPACE} implementation KVM: introduce kvm_make_vcpus_request_mask() API KVM: x86: hyperv: do rep check for each hypercall separately ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt27
-rw-r--r--Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-v3.txt30
-rw-r--r--Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/virtual/kvm/nested-vmx.txt11
4 files changed, 52 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
index 758bf403a169..495b7742ab58 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
@@ -1269,12 +1269,18 @@ struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 {
__u32 padding[3];
};
-This ioctl returns x86 cpuid features which are supported by both the hardware
-and kvm. Userspace can use the information returned by this ioctl to
-construct cpuid information (for KVM_SET_CPUID2) that is consistent with
-hardware, kernel, and userspace capabilities, and with user requirements (for
-example, the user may wish to constrain cpuid to emulate older hardware,
-or for feature consistency across a cluster).
+This ioctl returns x86 cpuid features which are supported by both the
+hardware and kvm in its default configuration. Userspace can use the
+information returned by this ioctl to construct cpuid information (for
+KVM_SET_CPUID2) that is consistent with hardware, kernel, and
+userspace capabilities, and with user requirements (for example, the
+user may wish to constrain cpuid to emulate older hardware, or for
+feature consistency across a cluster).
+
+Note that certain capabilities, such as KVM_CAP_X86_DISABLE_EXITS, may
+expose cpuid features (e.g. MONITOR) which are not supported by kvm in
+its default configuration. If userspace enables such capabilities, it
+is responsible for modifying the results of this ioctl appropriately.
Userspace invokes KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID by passing a kvm_cpuid2 structure
with the 'nent' field indicating the number of entries in the variable-size
@@ -4603,3 +4609,12 @@ Architectures: s390
This capability indicates that kvm will implement the interfaces to handle
reset, migration and nested KVM for branch prediction blocking. The stfle
facility 82 should not be provided to the guest without this capability.
+
+8.14 KVM_CAP_HYPERV_TLBFLUSH
+
+Architectures: x86
+
+This capability indicates that KVM supports paravirtualized Hyper-V TLB Flush
+hypercalls:
+HvFlushVirtualAddressSpace, HvFlushVirtualAddressSpaceEx,
+HvFlushVirtualAddressList, HvFlushVirtualAddressListEx.
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-v3.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-v3.txt
index 9293b45abdb9..2408ab720ef7 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-v3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-v3.txt
@@ -27,16 +27,42 @@ Groups:
VCPU and all of the redistributor pages are contiguous.
Only valid for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V3.
This address needs to be 64K aligned.
+
+ KVM_VGIC_V3_ADDR_TYPE_REDIST_REGION (rw, 64-bit)
+ The attribute data pointed to by kvm_device_attr.addr is a __u64 value:
+ bits: | 63 .... 52 | 51 .... 16 | 15 - 12 |11 - 0
+ values: | count | base | flags | index
+ - index encodes the unique redistributor region index
+ - flags: reserved for future use, currently 0
+ - base field encodes bits [51:16] of the guest physical base address
+ of the first redistributor in the region.
+ - count encodes the number of redistributors in the region. Must be
+ greater than 0.
+ There are two 64K pages for each redistributor in the region and
+ redistributors are laid out contiguously within the region. Regions
+ are filled with redistributors in the index order. The sum of all
+ region count fields must be greater than or equal to the number of
+ VCPUs. Redistributor regions must be registered in the incremental
+ index order, starting from index 0.
+ The characteristics of a specific redistributor region can be read
+ by presetting the index field in the attr data.
+ Only valid for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V3.
+
+ It is invalid to mix calls with KVM_VGIC_V3_ADDR_TYPE_REDIST and
+ KVM_VGIC_V3_ADDR_TYPE_REDIST_REGION attributes.
+
Errors:
-E2BIG: Address outside of addressable IPA range
- -EINVAL: Incorrectly aligned address
+ -EINVAL: Incorrectly aligned address, bad redistributor region
+ count/index, mixed redistributor region attribute usage
-EEXIST: Address already configured
+ -ENOENT: Attempt to read the characteristics of a non existing
+ redistributor region
-ENXIO: The group or attribute is unknown/unsupported for this device
or hardware support is missing.
-EFAULT: Invalid user pointer for attr->addr.
-
KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_DIST_REGS
KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_REDIST_REGS
Attributes:
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt
index f50d45b1e967..e507a9e0421e 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt
@@ -49,8 +49,8 @@ The mmu supports first-generation mmu hardware, which allows an atomic switch
of the current paging mode and cr3 during guest entry, as well as
two-dimensional paging (AMD's NPT and Intel's EPT). The emulated hardware
it exposes is the traditional 2/3/4 level x86 mmu, with support for global
-pages, pae, pse, pse36, cr0.wp, and 1GB pages. Work is in progress to support
-exposing NPT capable hardware on NPT capable hosts.
+pages, pae, pse, pse36, cr0.wp, and 1GB pages. Emulated hardware also
+able to expose NPT capable hardware on NPT capable hosts.
Translation
===========
@@ -465,5 +465,5 @@ Further reading
===============
- NPT presentation from KVM Forum 2008
- http://www.linux-kvm.org/wiki/images/c/c8/KvmForum2008%24kdf2008_21.pdf
+ http://www.linux-kvm.org/images/c/c8/KvmForum2008%24kdf2008_21.pdf
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/nested-vmx.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/nested-vmx.txt
index 8ed937de1163..97eb1353e962 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/nested-vmx.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/nested-vmx.txt
@@ -31,17 +31,6 @@ L0, the guest hypervisor, which we call L1, and its nested guest, which we
call L2.
-Known limitations
------------------
-
-The current code supports running Linux guests under KVM guests.
-Only 64-bit guest hypervisors are supported.
-
-Additional patches for running Windows under guest KVM, and Linux under
-guest VMware server, and support for nested EPT, are currently running in
-the lab, and will be sent as follow-on patchsets.
-
-
Running nested VMX
------------------