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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virtual/kvm')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 43 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vm.txt | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt | 7 |
3 files changed, 48 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt index 092ee9fba..07e4cdf02 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt @@ -1451,6 +1451,7 @@ struct kvm_irq_routing_entry { struct kvm_irq_routing_irqchip irqchip; struct kvm_irq_routing_msi msi; struct kvm_irq_routing_s390_adapter adapter; + struct kvm_irq_routing_hv_sint hv_sint; __u32 pad[8]; } u; }; @@ -1459,6 +1460,7 @@ struct kvm_irq_routing_entry { #define KVM_IRQ_ROUTING_IRQCHIP 1 #define KVM_IRQ_ROUTING_MSI 2 #define KVM_IRQ_ROUTING_S390_ADAPTER 3 +#define KVM_IRQ_ROUTING_HV_SINT 4 No flags are specified so far, the corresponding field must be set to zero. @@ -1482,6 +1484,10 @@ struct kvm_irq_routing_s390_adapter { __u32 adapter_id; }; +struct kvm_irq_routing_hv_sint { + __u32 vcpu; + __u32 sint; +}; 4.53 KVM_ASSIGN_SET_MSIX_NR (deprecated) @@ -3019,7 +3025,7 @@ len must be a multiple of sizeof(struct kvm_s390_irq). It must be > 0 and it must not exceed (max_vcpus + 32) * sizeof(struct kvm_s390_irq), which is the maximum number of possibly pending cpu-local interrupts. -4.90 KVM_SMI +4.96 KVM_SMI Capability: KVM_CAP_X86_SMM Architectures: x86 @@ -3331,6 +3337,28 @@ the userspace IOAPIC should process the EOI and retrigger the interrupt if it is still asserted. Vector is the LAPIC interrupt vector for which the EOI was received. + struct kvm_hyperv_exit { +#define KVM_EXIT_HYPERV_SYNIC 1 + __u32 type; + union { + struct { + __u32 msr; + __u64 control; + __u64 evt_page; + __u64 msg_page; + } synic; + } u; + }; + /* KVM_EXIT_HYPERV */ + struct kvm_hyperv_exit hyperv; +Indicates that the VCPU exits into userspace to process some tasks +related to Hyper-V emulation. +Valid values for 'type' are: + KVM_EXIT_HYPERV_SYNIC -- synchronously notify user-space about +Hyper-V SynIC state change. Notification is used to remap SynIC +event/message pages and to enable/disable SynIC messages/events processing +in userspace. + /* Fix the size of the union. */ char padding[256]; }; @@ -3685,3 +3713,16 @@ available, means that that the kernel has an implementation of the H_RANDOM hypercall backed by a hardware random-number generator. If present, the kernel H_RANDOM handler can be enabled for guest use with the KVM_CAP_PPC_ENABLE_HCALL capability. + +8.2 KVM_CAP_HYPERV_SYNIC + +Architectures: x86 +This capability, if KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION indicates that it is +available, means that that the kernel has an implementation of the +Hyper-V Synthetic interrupt controller(SynIC). Hyper-V SynIC is +used to support Windows Hyper-V based guest paravirt drivers(VMBus). + +In order to use SynIC, it has to be activated by setting this +capability via KVM_ENABLE_CAP ioctl on the vcpu fd. Note that this +will disable the use of APIC hardware virtualization even if supported +by the CPU, as it's incompatible with SynIC auto-EOI behavior. diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vm.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vm.txt index 2d09d1ed8..f083a168e 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vm.txt @@ -37,7 +37,8 @@ Returns: -EFAULT if the given address is not accessible Allows userspace to query the actual limit and set a new limit for the maximum guest memory size. The limit will be rounded up to 2048 MB, 4096 GB, 8192 TB respectively, as this limit is governed by -the number of page table levels. +the number of page table levels. In the case that there is no limit we will set +the limit to KVM_S390_NO_MEM_LIMIT (U64_MAX). 2. GROUP: KVM_S390_VM_CPU_MODEL Architectures: s390 diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt index 3a4d681c3..c81731096 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt @@ -203,10 +203,10 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information: page cannot be destroyed. See role.invalid. parent_ptes: The reverse mapping for the pte/ptes pointing at this page's spt. If - parent_ptes bit 0 is zero, only one spte points at this pages and + parent_ptes bit 0 is zero, only one spte points at this page and parent_ptes points at this single spte, otherwise, there exists multiple sptes pointing at this page and (parent_ptes & ~0x1) points at a data - structure with a list of parent_ptes. + structure with a list of parent sptes. unsync: If true, then the translations in this page may not match the guest's translation. This is equivalent to the state of the tlb when a pte is @@ -358,7 +358,8 @@ In the first case there are two additional complications: - if CR4.SMEP is enabled: since we've turned the page into a kernel page, the kernel may now execute it. We handle this by also setting spte.nx. If we get a user fetch or read fault, we'll change spte.u=1 and - spte.nx=gpte.nx back. + spte.nx=gpte.nx back. For this to work, KVM forces EFER.NX to 1 when + shadow paging is in use. - if CR4.SMAP is disabled: since the page has been changed to a kernel page, it can not be reused when CR4.SMAP is enabled. We set CR4.SMAP && !CR0.WP into shadow page's role to avoid this case. Note, |