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authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2022-04-29 06:38:56 -0400
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2022-04-29 12:39:34 -0400
commit73331c5d84cf87974dc3616ef706847ff187d590 (patch)
tree8b262a6835ab6dfad27c3c15d355bfdd65a1026e /Documentation
parent484c22df5aa0548604e67f7cdc73e1bd736cbecc (diff)
parent44187235cbcc7c1129ea7c004bc12f8757d29415 (diff)
Merge branch 'kvm-fixes-for-5.18-rc5' into HEAD
Fixes for (relatively) old bugs, to be merged in both the -rc and next development trees: * Fix potential races when walking host page table * Fix bad user ABI for KVM_EXIT_SYSTEM_EVENT * Fix shadow page table leak when KVM runs nested
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst24
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
index 85c7abc51af5..4a900cdbc62e 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
@@ -5986,16 +5986,16 @@ should put the acknowledged interrupt vector into the 'epr' field.
#define KVM_SYSTEM_EVENT_RESET 2
#define KVM_SYSTEM_EVENT_CRASH 3
__u32 type;
- __u64 flags;
+ __u32 ndata;
+ __u64 data[16];
} system_event;
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 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.
+HVC instruction based PSCI call from the vcpu.
+The 'type' field describes the system-level event type.
Valid values for 'type' are:
- KVM_SYSTEM_EVENT_SHUTDOWN -- the guest has requested a shutdown of the
@@ -6010,10 +6010,20 @@ 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:
+If KVM_CAP_SYSTEM_EVENT_DATA is present, the 'data' field can contain
+architecture specific information for the system-level event. Only
+the first `ndata` items (possibly zero) of the data array are valid.
- - KVM_SYSTEM_EVENT_RESET_FLAG_PSCI_RESET2 (arm64 only) -- the guest issued
- a SYSTEM_RESET2 call according to v1.1 of the PSCI specification.
+ - for arm64, data[0] is set to KVM_SYSTEM_EVENT_RESET_FLAG_PSCI_RESET2 if
+ the guest issued a SYSTEM_RESET2 call according to v1.1 of the PSCI
+ specification.
+
+ - for RISC-V, data[0] is set to the value of the second argument of the
+ ``sbi_system_reset`` call.
+
+Previous versions of Linux defined a `flags` member in this struct. The
+field is now aliased to `data[0]`. Userspace can assume that it is only
+written if ndata is greater than 0.
::