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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-12-19 01:05:28 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-12-19 01:05:28 +0100
commit66dcff86ba40eebb5133cccf450878f2bba102ef (patch)
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parentKVM: PPC: E500: Compile fix in this_cpu_write (diff)
parentMerge tag 'signed-kvm-ppc-next' of git://github.com/agraf/linux-2.6 into HEAD (diff)
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Pull KVM update from Paolo Bonzini: "3.19 changes for KVM: - spring cleaning: removed support for IA64, and for hardware- assisted virtualization on the PPC970 - ARM, PPC, s390 all had only small fixes For x86: - small performance improvements (though only on weird guests) - usual round of hardware-compliancy fixes from Nadav - APICv fixes - XSAVES support for hosts and guests. XSAVES hosts were broken because the (non-KVM) XSAVES patches inadvertently changed the KVM userspace ABI whenever XSAVES was enabled; hence, this part is going to stable. Guest support is just a matter of exposing the feature and CPUID leaves support" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (179 commits) KVM: move APIC types to arch/x86/ KVM: PPC: Book3S: Enable in-kernel XICS emulation by default KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Improve H_CONFER implementation KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix endianness of instruction obtained from HEIR register KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Remove code for PPC970 processors KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Tracepoints for KVM HV guest interactions KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Simplify locking around stolen time calculations arch: powerpc: kvm: book3s_paired_singles.c: Remove unused function arch: powerpc: kvm: book3s_pr.c: Remove unused function arch: powerpc: kvm: book3s.c: Remove some unused functions arch: powerpc: kvm: book3s_32_mmu.c: Remove unused function KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Check wait conditions before sleeping in kvmppc_vcore_blocked KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: ptes are big endian KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix inaccuracies in ICP emulation for H_IPI KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix KSM memory corruption KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix an issue where guest is paused on receiving HMI KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix computation of tlbie operand KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add missing HPTE unlock KVM: PPC: BookE: Improve irq inject tracepoint arm/arm64: KVM: Require in-kernel vgic for the arch timers ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ia64/kvm.txt83
-rw-r--r--Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt102
-rw-r--r--Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vm.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt2
4 files changed, 77 insertions, 120 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ia64/kvm.txt b/Documentation/ia64/kvm.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index ffb5c80bec3e..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/ia64/kvm.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,83 +0,0 @@
-Currently, kvm module is in EXPERIMENTAL stage on IA64. This means that
-interfaces are not stable enough to use. So, please don't run critical
-applications in virtual machine.
-We will try our best to improve it in future versions!
-
- Guide: How to boot up guests on kvm/ia64
-
-This guide is to describe how to enable kvm support for IA-64 systems.
-
-1. Get the kvm source from git.kernel.org.
- Userspace source:
- git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm-userspace.git
- Kernel Source:
- git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xiantao/kvm-ia64.git
-
-2. Compile the source code.
- 2.1 Compile userspace code:
- (1)cd ./kvm-userspace
- (2)./configure
- (3)cd kernel
- (4)make sync LINUX= $kernel_dir (kernel_dir is the directory of kernel source.)
- (5)cd ..
- (6)make qemu
- (7)cd qemu; make install
-
- 2.2 Compile kernel source code:
- (1) cd ./$kernel_dir
- (2) Make menuconfig
- (3) Enter into virtualization option, and choose kvm.
- (4) make
- (5) Once (4) done, make modules_install
- (6) Make initrd, and use new kernel to reboot up host machine.
- (7) Once (6) done, cd $kernel_dir/arch/ia64/kvm
- (8) insmod kvm.ko; insmod kvm-intel.ko
-
-Note: For step 2, please make sure that host page size == TARGET_PAGE_SIZE of qemu, otherwise, may fail.
-
-3. Get Guest Firmware named as Flash.fd, and put it under right place:
- (1) If you have the guest firmware (binary) released by Intel Corp for Xen, use it directly.
-
- (2) If you have no firmware at hand, Please download its source from
- hg clone http://xenbits.xensource.com/ext/efi-vfirmware.hg
- you can get the firmware's binary in the directory of efi-vfirmware.hg/binaries.
-
- (3) Rename the firmware you owned to Flash.fd, and copy it to /usr/local/share/qemu
-
-4. Boot up Linux or Windows guests:
- 4.1 Create or install a image for guest boot. If you have xen experience, it should be easy.
-
- 4.2 Boot up guests use the following command.
- /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-ia64 -smp xx -m 512 -hda $your_image
- (xx is the number of virtual processors for the guest, now the maximum value is 4)
-
-5. Known possible issue on some platforms with old Firmware.
-
-In the event of strange host crash issues, try to solve it through either of the following ways:
-
-(1): Upgrade your Firmware to the latest one.
-
-(2): Applying the below patch to kernel source.
-diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/pal.S b/arch/ia64/kernel/pal.S
-index 0b53344..f02b0f7 100644
---- a/arch/ia64/kernel/pal.S
-+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/pal.S
-@@ -84,7 +84,8 @@ GLOBAL_ENTRY(ia64_pal_call_static)
- mov ar.pfs = loc1
- mov rp = loc0
- ;;
-- srlz.d // serialize restoration of psr.l
-+ srlz.i // serialize restoration of psr.l
-+ ;;
- br.ret.sptk.many b0
- END(ia64_pal_call_static)
-
-6. Bug report:
- If you found any issues when use kvm/ia64, Please post the bug info to kvm-ia64-devel mailing list.
- https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-ia64-devel/
-
-Thanks for your interest! Let's work together, and make kvm/ia64 stronger and stronger!
-
-
- Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
- 2008.3.10
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
index 7610eaa4d491..0007fef4ed81 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
@@ -68,9 +68,12 @@ description:
Capability: which KVM extension provides this ioctl. Can be 'basic',
which means that is will be provided by any kernel that supports
- API version 12 (see section 4.1), or a KVM_CAP_xyz constant, which
+ API version 12 (see section 4.1), a KVM_CAP_xyz constant, which
means availability needs to be checked with KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION
- (see section 4.4).
+ (see section 4.4), or 'none' which means that while not all kernels
+ support this ioctl, there's no capability bit to check its
+ availability: for kernels that don't support the ioctl,
+ the ioctl returns -ENOTTY.
Architectures: which instruction set architectures provide this ioctl.
x86 includes both i386 and x86_64.
@@ -604,7 +607,7 @@ struct kvm_fpu {
4.24 KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP
Capability: KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP, KVM_CAP_S390_IRQCHIP (s390)
-Architectures: x86, ia64, ARM, arm64, s390
+Architectures: x86, ARM, arm64, s390
Type: vm ioctl
Parameters: none
Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
@@ -612,7 +615,7 @@ Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
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 ia64, a IOSAPIC is created. On ARM/arm64, a GIC is
+only go to the IOAPIC. On ARM/arm64, a GIC is
created. On s390, a dummy irq routing table is created.
Note that on s390 the KVM_CAP_S390_IRQCHIP vm capability needs to be enabled
@@ -622,7 +625,7 @@ before KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP can be used.
4.25 KVM_IRQ_LINE
Capability: KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP
-Architectures: x86, ia64, arm, arm64
+Architectures: x86, arm, arm64
Type: vm ioctl
Parameters: struct kvm_irq_level
Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
@@ -676,7 +679,7 @@ struct kvm_irq_level {
4.26 KVM_GET_IRQCHIP
Capability: KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP
-Architectures: x86, ia64
+Architectures: x86
Type: vm ioctl
Parameters: struct kvm_irqchip (in/out)
Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
@@ -698,7 +701,7 @@ struct kvm_irqchip {
4.27 KVM_SET_IRQCHIP
Capability: KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP
-Architectures: x86, ia64
+Architectures: x86
Type: vm ioctl
Parameters: struct kvm_irqchip (in)
Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
@@ -991,7 +994,7 @@ for vm-wide capabilities.
4.38 KVM_GET_MP_STATE
Capability: KVM_CAP_MP_STATE
-Architectures: x86, ia64, s390
+Architectures: x86, s390
Type: vcpu ioctl
Parameters: struct kvm_mp_state (out)
Returns: 0 on success; -1 on error
@@ -1005,16 +1008,15 @@ uniprocessor guests).
Possible values are:
- - KVM_MP_STATE_RUNNABLE: the vcpu is currently running [x86, ia64]
+ - KVM_MP_STATE_RUNNABLE: the vcpu is currently running [x86]
- KVM_MP_STATE_UNINITIALIZED: the vcpu is an application processor (AP)
- which has not yet received an INIT signal [x86,
- ia64]
+ which has not yet received an INIT signal [x86]
- KVM_MP_STATE_INIT_RECEIVED: the vcpu has received an INIT signal, and is
- now ready for a SIPI [x86, ia64]
+ now ready for a SIPI [x86]
- KVM_MP_STATE_HALTED: the vcpu has executed a HLT instruction and
- is waiting for an interrupt [x86, ia64]
+ 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, ia64]
+ accessible via KVM_GET_VCPU_EVENTS) [x86]
- KVM_MP_STATE_STOPPED: the vcpu is stopped [s390]
- 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)
@@ -1022,7 +1024,7 @@ Possible values are:
- KVM_MP_STATE_LOAD: the vcpu is in a special load/startup state
[s390]
-On x86 and ia64, this ioctl is only useful after KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP. Without an
+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.
@@ -1030,7 +1032,7 @@ these architectures.
4.39 KVM_SET_MP_STATE
Capability: KVM_CAP_MP_STATE
-Architectures: x86, ia64, s390
+Architectures: x86, s390
Type: vcpu ioctl
Parameters: struct kvm_mp_state (in)
Returns: 0 on success; -1 on error
@@ -1038,7 +1040,7 @@ Returns: 0 on success; -1 on error
Sets the vcpu's current "multiprocessing state"; see KVM_GET_MP_STATE for
arguments.
-On x86 and ia64, this ioctl is only useful after KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP. Without an
+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.
@@ -1065,7 +1067,7 @@ documentation when it pops into existence).
4.41 KVM_SET_BOOT_CPU_ID
Capability: KVM_CAP_SET_BOOT_CPU_ID
-Architectures: x86, ia64
+Architectures: x86
Type: vm ioctl
Parameters: unsigned long vcpu_id
Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
@@ -1257,8 +1259,8 @@ The flags bitmap is defined as:
4.48 KVM_ASSIGN_PCI_DEVICE
-Capability: KVM_CAP_DEVICE_ASSIGNMENT
-Architectures: x86 ia64
+Capability: none
+Architectures: x86
Type: vm ioctl
Parameters: struct kvm_assigned_pci_dev (in)
Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
@@ -1298,25 +1300,36 @@ Only PCI header type 0 devices with PCI BAR resources are supported by
device assignment. The user requesting this ioctl must have read/write
access to the PCI sysfs resource files associated with the device.
+Errors:
+ ENOTTY: kernel does not support this ioctl
+
+ Other error conditions may be defined by individual device types or
+ have their standard meanings.
+
4.49 KVM_DEASSIGN_PCI_DEVICE
-Capability: KVM_CAP_DEVICE_DEASSIGNMENT
-Architectures: x86 ia64
+Capability: none
+Architectures: x86
Type: vm ioctl
Parameters: struct kvm_assigned_pci_dev (in)
Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
Ends PCI device assignment, releasing all associated resources.
-See KVM_CAP_DEVICE_ASSIGNMENT for the data structure. Only assigned_dev_id is
+See KVM_ASSIGN_PCI_DEVICE for the data structure. Only assigned_dev_id is
used in kvm_assigned_pci_dev to identify the device.
+Errors:
+ ENOTTY: kernel does not support this ioctl
+
+ Other error conditions may be defined by individual device types or
+ have their standard meanings.
4.50 KVM_ASSIGN_DEV_IRQ
Capability: KVM_CAP_ASSIGN_DEV_IRQ
-Architectures: x86 ia64
+Architectures: x86
Type: vm ioctl
Parameters: struct kvm_assigned_irq (in)
Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
@@ -1346,11 +1359,17 @@ The following flags are defined:
It is not valid to specify multiple types per host or guest IRQ. However, the
IRQ type of host and guest can differ or can even be null.
+Errors:
+ ENOTTY: kernel does not support this ioctl
+
+ Other error conditions may be defined by individual device types or
+ have their standard meanings.
+
4.51 KVM_DEASSIGN_DEV_IRQ
Capability: KVM_CAP_ASSIGN_DEV_IRQ
-Architectures: x86 ia64
+Architectures: x86
Type: vm ioctl
Parameters: struct kvm_assigned_irq (in)
Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
@@ -1365,7 +1384,7 @@ KVM_ASSIGN_DEV_IRQ. Partial deassignment of host or guest IRQ is allowed.
4.52 KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING
Capability: KVM_CAP_IRQ_ROUTING
-Architectures: x86 ia64 s390
+Architectures: x86 s390
Type: vm ioctl
Parameters: struct kvm_irq_routing (in)
Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
@@ -1423,8 +1442,8 @@ struct kvm_irq_routing_s390_adapter {
4.53 KVM_ASSIGN_SET_MSIX_NR
-Capability: KVM_CAP_DEVICE_MSIX
-Architectures: x86 ia64
+Capability: none
+Architectures: x86
Type: vm ioctl
Parameters: struct kvm_assigned_msix_nr (in)
Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
@@ -1445,8 +1464,8 @@ struct kvm_assigned_msix_nr {
4.54 KVM_ASSIGN_SET_MSIX_ENTRY
-Capability: KVM_CAP_DEVICE_MSIX
-Architectures: x86 ia64
+Capability: none
+Architectures: x86
Type: vm ioctl
Parameters: struct kvm_assigned_msix_entry (in)
Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
@@ -1461,6 +1480,12 @@ struct kvm_assigned_msix_entry {
__u16 padding[3];
};
+Errors:
+ ENOTTY: kernel does not support this ioctl
+
+ Other error conditions may be defined by individual device types or
+ have their standard meanings.
+
4.55 KVM_SET_TSC_KHZ
@@ -2453,9 +2478,15 @@ return ENOEXEC for that vcpu.
Note that because some registers reflect machine topology, all vcpus
should be created before this ioctl is invoked.
+Userspace can call this function multiple times for a given vcpu, including
+after the vcpu has been run. This will reset the vcpu to its initial
+state. All calls to this function after the initial call must use the same
+target and same set of feature flags, otherwise EINVAL will be returned.
+
Possible features:
- KVM_ARM_VCPU_POWER_OFF: Starts the CPU in a power-off state.
- Depends on KVM_CAP_ARM_PSCI.
+ Depends on KVM_CAP_ARM_PSCI. If not set, the CPU will be powered on
+ and execute guest code when KVM_RUN is called.
- KVM_ARM_VCPU_EL1_32BIT: Starts the CPU in a 32bit mode.
Depends on KVM_CAP_ARM_EL1_32BIT (arm64 only).
- KVM_ARM_VCPU_PSCI_0_2: Emulate PSCI v0.2 for the CPU.
@@ -2951,6 +2982,15 @@ 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.
+Valid values for 'type' are:
+ KVM_SYSTEM_EVENT_SHUTDOWN -- the guest has requested a shutdown of the
+ VM. Userspace is not obliged to honour this, and if it does honour
+ this does not need to destroy the VM synchronously (ie it may call
+ KVM_RUN again before shutdown finally occurs).
+ KVM_SYSTEM_EVENT_RESET -- the guest has requested a reset of the VM.
+ As with SHUTDOWN, userspace can choose to ignore the request, or
+ to schedule the reset to occur in the future and may call KVM_RUN again.
+
/* Fix the size of the union. */
char padding[256];
};
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vm.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vm.txt
index 0d16f96c0eac..d426fc87fe93 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vm.txt
@@ -12,14 +12,14 @@ specific.
1. GROUP: KVM_S390_VM_MEM_CTRL
Architectures: s390
-1.1. ATTRIBUTE: KVM_S390_VM_MEM_CTRL
+1.1. ATTRIBUTE: KVM_S390_VM_MEM_ENABLE_CMMA
Parameters: none
-Returns: -EBUSY if already a vcpus is defined, otherwise 0
+Returns: -EBUSY if a vcpu is already defined, otherwise 0
-Enables CMMA for the virtual machine
+Enables Collaborative Memory Management Assist (CMMA) for the virtual machine.
-1.2. ATTRIBUTE: KVM_S390_VM_CLR_CMMA
-Parameteres: none
+1.2. ATTRIBUTE: KVM_S390_VM_MEM_CLR_CMMA
+Parameters: none
Returns: 0
Clear the CMMA status for all guest pages, so any pages the guest marked
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt
index 6d470ae7b073..2a71c8f29f68 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ MSR_KVM_ASYNC_PF_EN: 0x4b564d02
64 byte memory area which must be in guest RAM and must be
zeroed. Bits 5-2 are reserved and should be zero. Bit 0 is 1
when asynchronous page faults are enabled on the vcpu 0 when
- disabled. Bit 2 is 1 if asynchronous page faults can be injected
+ disabled. Bit 1 is 1 if asynchronous page faults can be injected
when vcpu is in cpl == 0.
First 4 byte of 64 byte memory location will be written to by