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authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2019-11-29 19:20:08 +0100
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2019-11-29 19:20:08 +0100
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parentDocumentation: kvm: Fix mention to number of ioctls classes (diff)
parentpowerpc: Ultravisor: Add PPC_UV config option (diff)
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Merge tag 'kvm-ppc-uvmem-5.5-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc into HEAD
KVM: Add support for secure guests under the Protected Execution Framework (PEF) Ultravisor on POWER. This enables secure memory to be represented as device memory, which provides a way for the host to keep track of which pages of a secure guest have been moved into secure memory managed by the ultravisor and are no longer accessible by the host, and manage movement of pages between secure and normal memory.
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@@ -4149,6 +4149,24 @@ Valid values for 'action':
#define KVM_PMU_EVENT_ALLOW 0
#define KVM_PMU_EVENT_DENY 1
+4.121 KVM_PPC_SVM_OFF
+
+Capability: basic
+Architectures: powerpc
+Type: vm ioctl
+Parameters: none
+Returns: 0 on successful completion,
+Errors:
+ EINVAL: if ultravisor failed to terminate the secure guest
+ ENOMEM: if hypervisor failed to allocate new radix page tables for guest
+
+This ioctl is used to turn off the secure mode of the guest or transition
+the guest from secure mode to normal mode. This is invoked when the guest
+is reset. This has no effect if called for a normal guest.
+
+This ioctl issues an ultravisor call to terminate the secure guest,
+unpins the VPA pages and releases all the device pages that are used to
+track the secure pages by hypervisor.
5. The kvm_run structure
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