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diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst index 691ff84444bd..55efa82e37eb 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst @@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ kvm_run' (see below). ----------------- :Capability: basic -:Architectures: all except ARM, arm64 +:Architectures: all except arm64 :Type: vcpu ioctl :Parameters: struct kvm_regs (out) :Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error @@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ Reads the general purpose registers from the vcpu. ----------------- :Capability: basic -:Architectures: all except ARM, arm64 +:Architectures: all except arm64 :Type: vcpu ioctl :Parameters: struct kvm_regs (in) :Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error @@ -824,7 +824,7 @@ Writes the floating point state to the vcpu. ----------------------- :Capability: KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP, KVM_CAP_S390_IRQCHIP (s390) -:Architectures: x86, ARM, arm64, s390 +:Architectures: x86, arm64, s390 :Type: vm ioctl :Parameters: none :Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error @@ -833,7 +833,7 @@ Creates an interrupt controller model in the kernel. On x86, creates a virtual ioapic, a virtual PIC (two PICs, nested), and sets up future vcpus to have a local APIC. IRQ routing for GSIs 0-15 is set to both PIC and IOAPIC; GSI 16-23 only go to the IOAPIC. -On ARM/arm64, a GICv2 is created. Any other GIC versions require the usage of +On arm64, a GICv2 is created. Any other GIC versions require the usage of KVM_CREATE_DEVICE, which also supports creating a GICv2. Using KVM_CREATE_DEVICE is preferred over KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP for GICv2. On s390, a dummy irq routing table is created. @@ -846,7 +846,7 @@ before KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP can be used. ----------------- :Capability: KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP -:Architectures: x86, arm, arm64 +:Architectures: x86, arm64 :Type: vm ioctl :Parameters: struct kvm_irq_level :Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error @@ -870,7 +870,7 @@ capability is present (or unless it is not using the in-kernel irqchip, of course). -ARM/arm64 can signal an interrupt either at the CPU level, or at the +arm64 can signal an interrupt either at the CPU level, or at the in-kernel irqchip (GIC), and for in-kernel irqchip can tell the GIC to use PPIs designated for specific cpus. The irq field is interpreted like this:: @@ -896,7 +896,7 @@ When KVM_CAP_ARM_IRQ_LINE_LAYOUT_2 is supported, the target vcpu is identified as (256 * vcpu2_index + vcpu_index). Otherwise, vcpu2_index must be zero. -Note that on arm/arm64, the KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP capability only conditions +Note that on arm64, the KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP capability only conditions injection of interrupts for the in-kernel irqchip. KVM_IRQ_LINE can always be used for a userspace interrupt controller. @@ -1087,7 +1087,7 @@ Other flags returned by ``KVM_GET_CLOCK`` are accepted but ignored. :Capability: KVM_CAP_VCPU_EVENTS :Extended by: KVM_CAP_INTR_SHADOW -:Architectures: x86, arm, arm64 +:Architectures: x86, arm64 :Type: vcpu ioctl :Parameters: struct kvm_vcpu_event (out) :Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error @@ -1146,8 +1146,8 @@ The following bits are defined in the flags field: fields contain a valid state. This bit will be set whenever KVM_CAP_EXCEPTION_PAYLOAD is enabled. -ARM/ARM64: -^^^^^^^^^^ +ARM64: +^^^^^^ If the guest accesses a device that is being emulated by the host kernel in such a way that a real device would generate a physical SError, KVM may make @@ -1206,7 +1206,7 @@ directly to the virtual CPU). :Capability: KVM_CAP_VCPU_EVENTS :Extended by: KVM_CAP_INTR_SHADOW -:Architectures: x86, arm, arm64 +:Architectures: x86, arm64 :Type: vcpu ioctl :Parameters: struct kvm_vcpu_event (in) :Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error @@ -1241,8 +1241,8 @@ can be set in the flags field to signal that the exception_has_payload, exception_payload, and exception.pending fields contain a valid state and shall be written into the VCPU. -ARM/ARM64: -^^^^^^^^^^ +ARM64: +^^^^^^ User space may need to inject several types of events to the guest. @@ -1449,7 +1449,7 @@ for vm-wide capabilities. --------------------- :Capability: KVM_CAP_MP_STATE -:Architectures: x86, s390, arm, arm64, riscv +:Architectures: x86, s390, arm64, riscv :Type: vcpu ioctl :Parameters: struct kvm_mp_state (out) :Returns: 0 on success; -1 on error @@ -1467,7 +1467,7 @@ Possible values are: ========================== =============================================== KVM_MP_STATE_RUNNABLE the vcpu is currently running - [x86,arm/arm64,riscv] + [x86,arm64,riscv] KVM_MP_STATE_UNINITIALIZED the vcpu is an application processor (AP) which has not yet received an INIT signal [x86] KVM_MP_STATE_INIT_RECEIVED the vcpu has received an INIT signal, and is @@ -1476,7 +1476,7 @@ Possible values are: is waiting for an interrupt [x86] KVM_MP_STATE_SIPI_RECEIVED the vcpu has just received a SIPI (vector accessible via KVM_GET_VCPU_EVENTS) [x86] - KVM_MP_STATE_STOPPED the vcpu is stopped [s390,arm/arm64,riscv] + KVM_MP_STATE_STOPPED the vcpu is stopped [s390,arm64,riscv] KVM_MP_STATE_CHECK_STOP the vcpu is in a special error state [s390] KVM_MP_STATE_OPERATING the vcpu is operating (running or halted) [s390] @@ -1488,8 +1488,8 @@ On x86, this ioctl is only useful after KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP. Without an in-kernel irqchip, the multiprocessing state must be maintained by userspace on these architectures. -For arm/arm64/riscv: -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +For arm64/riscv: +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The only states that are valid are KVM_MP_STATE_STOPPED and KVM_MP_STATE_RUNNABLE which reflect if the vcpu is paused or not. @@ -1498,7 +1498,7 @@ KVM_MP_STATE_RUNNABLE which reflect if the vcpu is paused or not. --------------------- :Capability: KVM_CAP_MP_STATE -:Architectures: x86, s390, arm, arm64, riscv +:Architectures: x86, s390, arm64, riscv :Type: vcpu ioctl :Parameters: struct kvm_mp_state (in) :Returns: 0 on success; -1 on error @@ -1510,8 +1510,8 @@ On x86, this ioctl is only useful after KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP. Without an in-kernel irqchip, the multiprocessing state must be maintained by userspace on these architectures. -For arm/arm64/riscv: -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +For arm64/riscv: +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The only states that are valid are KVM_MP_STATE_STOPPED and KVM_MP_STATE_RUNNABLE which reflect if the vcpu should be paused or not. @@ -1780,14 +1780,14 @@ The flags bitmap is defined as:: ------------------------ :Capability: KVM_CAP_IRQ_ROUTING -:Architectures: x86 s390 arm arm64 +:Architectures: x86 s390 arm64 :Type: vm ioctl :Parameters: struct kvm_irq_routing (in) :Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error Sets the GSI routing table entries, overwriting any previously set entries. -On arm/arm64, GSI routing has the following limitation: +On arm64, GSI routing has the following limitation: - GSI routing does not apply to KVM_IRQ_LINE but only to KVM_IRQFD. @@ -2855,7 +2855,7 @@ after pausing the vcpu, but before it is resumed. ------------------- :Capability: KVM_CAP_SIGNAL_MSI -:Architectures: x86 arm arm64 +:Architectures: x86 arm64 :Type: vm ioctl :Parameters: struct kvm_msi (in) :Returns: >0 on delivery, 0 if guest blocked the MSI, and -1 on error @@ -3043,7 +3043,7 @@ into the hash PTE second double word). -------------- :Capability: KVM_CAP_IRQFD -:Architectures: x86 s390 arm arm64 +:Architectures: x86 s390 arm64 :Type: vm ioctl :Parameters: struct kvm_irqfd (in) :Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error @@ -3069,7 +3069,7 @@ Note that closing the resamplefd is not sufficient to disable the irqfd. The KVM_IRQFD_FLAG_RESAMPLE is only necessary on assignment and need not be specified with KVM_IRQFD_FLAG_DEASSIGN. -On arm/arm64, gsi routing being supported, the following can happen: +On arm64, gsi routing being supported, the following can happen: - in case no routing entry is associated to this gsi, injection fails - in case the gsi is associated to an irqchip routing entry, @@ -3325,7 +3325,7 @@ current state. "addr" is ignored. ---------------------- :Capability: basic -:Architectures: arm, arm64 +:Architectures: arm64 :Type: vcpu ioctl :Parameters: struct kvm_vcpu_init (in) :Returns: 0 on success; -1 on error @@ -3423,7 +3423,7 @@ Possible features: ----------------------------- :Capability: basic -:Architectures: arm, arm64 +:Architectures: arm64 :Type: vm ioctl :Parameters: struct kvm_vcpu_init (out) :Returns: 0 on success; -1 on error @@ -3452,7 +3452,7 @@ VCPU matching underlying host. --------------------- :Capability: basic -:Architectures: arm, arm64, mips +:Architectures: arm64, mips :Type: vcpu ioctl :Parameters: struct kvm_reg_list (in/out) :Returns: 0 on success; -1 on error @@ -3479,7 +3479,7 @@ KVM_GET_ONE_REG/KVM_SET_ONE_REG calls. ----------------------------------------- :Capability: KVM_CAP_ARM_SET_DEVICE_ADDR -:Architectures: arm, arm64 +:Architectures: arm64 :Type: vm ioctl :Parameters: struct kvm_arm_device_address (in) :Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error @@ -3506,13 +3506,13 @@ can access emulated or directly exposed devices, which the host kernel needs to know about. The id field is an architecture specific identifier for a specific device. -ARM/arm64 divides the id field into two parts, a device id and an +arm64 divides the id field into two parts, a device id and an address type id specific to the individual device:: bits: | 63 ... 32 | 31 ... 16 | 15 ... 0 | field: | 0x00000000 | device id | addr type id | -ARM/arm64 currently only require this when using the in-kernel GIC +arm64 currently only require this when using the in-kernel GIC support for the hardware VGIC features, using KVM_ARM_DEVICE_VGIC_V2 as the device id. When setting the base address for the guest's mapping of the VGIC virtual CPU and distributor interface, the ioctl @@ -4794,7 +4794,7 @@ to I/O ports. ------------------------------------ :Capability: KVM_CAP_MANUAL_DIRTY_LOG_PROTECT2 -:Architectures: x86, arm, arm64, mips +:Architectures: x86, arm64, mips :Type: vm ioctl :Parameters: struct kvm_clear_dirty_log (in) :Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error @@ -4906,7 +4906,7 @@ version has the following quirks: 4.119 KVM_ARM_VCPU_FINALIZE --------------------------- -:Architectures: arm, arm64 +:Architectures: arm64 :Type: vcpu ioctl :Parameters: int feature (in) :Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error @@ -5988,7 +5988,7 @@ should put the acknowledged interrupt vector into the 'epr' field. If exit_reason is KVM_EXIT_SYSTEM_EVENT then the vcpu has triggered a system-level event using some architecture specific mechanism (hypercall -or some special instruction). In case of ARM/ARM64, this is triggered using +or some special instruction). In case of ARM64, this is triggered using HVC instruction based PSCI call from the vcpu. The 'type' field describes the system-level event type. The 'flags' field describes architecture specific flags for the system-level event. @@ -6007,6 +6007,11 @@ Valid values for 'type' are: to ignore the request, or to gather VM memory core dump and/or reset/shutdown of the VM. +Valid flags are: + + - KVM_SYSTEM_EVENT_RESET_FLAG_PSCI_RESET2 (arm64 only) -- the guest issued + a SYSTEM_RESET2 call according to v1.1 of the PSCI specification. + :: /* KVM_EXIT_IOAPIC_EOI */ @@ -6081,7 +6086,7 @@ in send_page or recv a buffer to recv_page). __u64 fault_ipa; } arm_nisv; -Used on arm and arm64 systems. If a guest accesses memory not in a memslot, +Used on arm64 systems. If a guest accesses memory not in a memslot, KVM will typically return to userspace and ask it to do MMIO emulation on its behalf. However, for certain classes of instructions, no instruction decode (direction, length of memory access) is provided, and fetching and decoding @@ -6098,11 +6103,10 @@ did not fall within an I/O window. Userspace implementations can query for KVM_CAP_ARM_NISV_TO_USER, and enable this capability at VM creation. Once this is done, these types of errors will instead return to userspace with KVM_EXIT_ARM_NISV, with the valid bits from -the HSR (arm) and ESR_EL2 (arm64) in the esr_iss field, and the faulting IPA -in the fault_ipa field. Userspace can either fix up the access if it's -actually an I/O access by decoding the instruction from guest memory (if it's -very brave) and continue executing the guest, or it can decide to suspend, -dump, or restart the guest. +the ESR_EL2 in the esr_iss field, and the faulting IPA in the fault_ipa field. +Userspace can either fix up the access if it's actually an I/O access by +decoding the instruction from guest memory (if it's very brave) and continue +executing the guest, or it can decide to suspend, dump, or restart the guest. Note that KVM does not skip the faulting instruction as it does for KVM_EXIT_MMIO, but userspace has to emulate any change to the processing state @@ -6809,7 +6813,7 @@ and injected exceptions. 7.18 KVM_CAP_MANUAL_DIRTY_LOG_PROTECT2 -:Architectures: x86, arm, arm64, mips +:Architectures: x86, arm64, mips :Parameters: args[0] whether feature should be enabled or not Valid flags are:: @@ -7206,7 +7210,7 @@ reserved. 8.9 KVM_CAP_ARM_USER_IRQ ------------------------ -:Architectures: arm, arm64 +:Architectures: arm64 This capability, if KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION indicates that it is available, means that if userspace creates a VM without an in-kernel interrupt controller, it @@ -7333,7 +7337,7 @@ HvFlushVirtualAddressList, HvFlushVirtualAddressListEx. 8.19 KVM_CAP_ARM_INJECT_SERROR_ESR ---------------------------------- -:Architectures: arm, arm64 +:Architectures: arm64 This capability indicates that userspace can specify (via the KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS ioctl) the syndrome value reported to the guest when it diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vcpu.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vcpu.rst index 60a29972d3f1..716aa3edae14 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vcpu.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vcpu.rst @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ irqchip. -ENODEV PMUv3 not supported or GIC not initialized -ENXIO PMUv3 not properly configured or in-kernel irqchip not configured as required prior to calling this attribute - -EBUSY PMUv3 already initialized + -EBUSY PMUv3 already initialized or a VCPU has already run -EINVAL Invalid filter range ======= ====================================================== @@ -104,11 +104,43 @@ hardware event. Filtering event 0x1E (CHAIN) has no effect either, as it isn't strictly speaking an event. Filtering the cycle counter is possible using event 0x11 (CPU_CYCLES). +1.4 ATTRIBUTE: KVM_ARM_VCPU_PMU_V3_SET_PMU +------------------------------------------ + +:Parameters: in kvm_device_attr.addr the address to an int representing the PMU + identifier. + +:Returns: + + ======= ==================================================== + -EBUSY PMUv3 already initialized, a VCPU has already run or + an event filter has already been set + -EFAULT Error accessing the PMU identifier + -ENXIO PMU not found + -ENODEV PMUv3 not supported or GIC not initialized + -ENOMEM Could not allocate memory + ======= ==================================================== + +Request that the VCPU uses the specified hardware PMU when creating guest events +for the purpose of PMU emulation. The PMU identifier can be read from the "type" +file for the desired PMU instance under /sys/devices (or, equivalent, +/sys/bus/even_source). This attribute is particularly useful on heterogeneous +systems where there are at least two CPU PMUs on the system. The PMU that is set +for one VCPU will be used by all the other VCPUs. It isn't possible to set a PMU +if a PMU event filter is already present. + +Note that KVM will not make any attempts to run the VCPU on the physical CPUs +associated with the PMU specified by this attribute. This is entirely left to +userspace. However, attempting to run the VCPU on a physical CPU not supported +by the PMU will fail and KVM_RUN will return with +exit_reason = KVM_EXIT_FAIL_ENTRY and populate the fail_entry struct by setting +hardare_entry_failure_reason field to KVM_EXIT_FAIL_ENTRY_CPU_UNSUPPORTED and +the cpu field to the processor id. 2. GROUP: KVM_ARM_VCPU_TIMER_CTRL ================================= -:Architectures: ARM, ARM64 +:Architectures: ARM64 2.1. ATTRIBUTES: KVM_ARM_VCPU_TIMER_IRQ_VTIMER, KVM_ARM_VCPU_TIMER_IRQ_PTIMER ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |