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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 78 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/cpuid.rst | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/hypercalls.rst | 21 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/mmu.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/msr.rst | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/vcpu-requests.rst | 8 |
7 files changed, 131 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst index 9977e845633f..dd3fe231e435 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst @@ -5034,6 +5034,54 @@ see KVM_XEN_VCPU_SET_ATTR above. The KVM_XEN_VCPU_ATTR_TYPE_RUNSTATE_ADJUST type may not be used with the KVM_XEN_VCPU_GET_ATTR ioctl. + +4.131 KVM_GET_SREGS2 +------------------ + +:Capability: KVM_CAP_SREGS2 +:Architectures: x86 +:Type: vcpu ioctl +:Parameters: struct kvm_sregs2 (out) +:Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error + +Reads special registers from the vcpu. +This ioctl (when supported) replaces the KVM_GET_SREGS. + +:: + +struct kvm_sregs2 { + /* out (KVM_GET_SREGS2) / in (KVM_SET_SREGS2) */ + struct kvm_segment cs, ds, es, fs, gs, ss; + struct kvm_segment tr, ldt; + struct kvm_dtable gdt, idt; + __u64 cr0, cr2, cr3, cr4, cr8; + __u64 efer; + __u64 apic_base; + __u64 flags; + __u64 pdptrs[4]; +}; + +flags values for ``kvm_sregs2``: + +``KVM_SREGS2_FLAGS_PDPTRS_VALID`` + + Indicates thats the struct contain valid PDPTR values. + + +4.132 KVM_SET_SREGS2 +------------------ + +:Capability: KVM_CAP_SREGS2 +:Architectures: x86 +:Type: vcpu ioctl +:Parameters: struct kvm_sregs2 (in) +:Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error + +Writes special registers into the vcpu. +See KVM_GET_SREGS2 for the data structures. +This ioctl (when supported) replaces the KVM_SET_SREGS. + + 5. The kvm_run structure ======================== @@ -6909,3 +6957,33 @@ This capability is always enabled. This capability indicates that the KVM virtual PTP service is supported in the host. A VMM can check whether the service is available to the guest on migration. + +8.33 KVM_CAP_HYPERV_ENFORCE_CPUID +----------------------------- + +Architectures: x86 + +When enabled, KVM will disable emulated Hyper-V features provided to the +guest according to the bits Hyper-V CPUID feature leaves. Otherwise, all +currently implmented Hyper-V features are provided unconditionally when +Hyper-V identification is set in the HYPERV_CPUID_INTERFACE (0x40000001) +leaf. + +8.34 KVM_CAP_EXIT_HYPERCALL +--------------------------- + +:Capability: KVM_CAP_EXIT_HYPERCALL +:Architectures: x86 +:Type: vm + +This capability, if enabled, will cause KVM to exit to userspace +with KVM_EXIT_HYPERCALL exit reason to process some hypercalls. + +Calling KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION for this capability will return a bitmask +of hypercalls that can be configured to exit to userspace. +Right now, the only such hypercall is KVM_HC_MAP_GPA_RANGE. + +The argument to KVM_ENABLE_CAP is also a bitmask, and must be a subset +of the result of KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION. KVM will forward to userspace +the hypercalls whose corresponding bit is in the argument, and return +ENOSYS for the others. diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/cpuid.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/cpuid.rst index cf62162d4be2..bda3e3e737d7 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/cpuid.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/cpuid.rst @@ -96,6 +96,13 @@ KVM_FEATURE_MSI_EXT_DEST_ID 15 guest checks this feature bit before using extended destination ID bits in MSI address bits 11-5. +KVM_FEATURE_HC_MAP_GPA_RANGE 16 guest checks this feature bit before + using the map gpa range hypercall + to notify the page state change + +KVM_FEATURE_MIGRATION_CONTROL 17 guest checks this feature bit before + using MSR_KVM_MIGRATION_CONTROL + KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE_STABLE_BIT 24 host will warn if no guest-side per-cpu warps are expected in kvmclock diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/hypercalls.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/hypercalls.rst index ed4fddd364ea..e56fa8b9cfca 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/hypercalls.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/hypercalls.rst @@ -169,3 +169,24 @@ a0: destination APIC ID :Usage example: When sending a call-function IPI-many to vCPUs, yield if any of the IPI target vCPUs was preempted. + +8. KVM_HC_MAP_GPA_RANGE +------------------------- +:Architecture: x86 +:Status: active +:Purpose: Request KVM to map a GPA range with the specified attributes. + +a0: the guest physical address of the start page +a1: the number of (4kb) pages (must be contiguous in GPA space) +a2: attributes + + Where 'attributes' : + * bits 3:0 - preferred page size encoding 0 = 4kb, 1 = 2mb, 2 = 1gb, etc... + * bit 4 - plaintext = 0, encrypted = 1 + * bits 63:5 - reserved (must be zero) + +**Implementation note**: this hypercall is implemented in userspace via +the KVM_CAP_EXIT_HYPERCALL capability. Userspace must enable that capability +before advertising KVM_FEATURE_HC_MAP_GPA_RANGE in the guest CPUID. In +addition, if the guest supports KVM_FEATURE_MIGRATION_CONTROL, userspace +must also set up an MSR filter to process writes to MSR_KVM_MIGRATION_CONTROL. diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst index 1fc860c007a3..35eca377543d 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst @@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ The acquisition orders for mutexes are as follows: - kvm->slots_lock is taken outside kvm->irq_lock, though acquiring them together is quite rare. +- Unlike kvm->slots_lock, kvm->slots_arch_lock is released before + synchronize_srcu(&kvm->srcu). Therefore kvm->slots_arch_lock + can be taken inside a kvm->srcu read-side critical section, + while kvm->slots_lock cannot. + On x86: - vcpu->mutex is taken outside kvm->arch.hyperv.hv_lock diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/mmu.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/mmu.rst index 5bfe28b0728e..20d85daed395 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/mmu.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/mmu.rst @@ -171,8 +171,8 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information: shadow pages) so role.quadrant takes values in the range 0..3. Each quadrant maps 1GB virtual address space. role.access: - Inherited guest access permissions in the form uwx. Note execute - permission is positive, not negative. + Inherited guest access permissions from the parent ptes in the form uwx. + Note execute permission is positive, not negative. role.invalid: The page is invalid and should not be used. It is a root page that is currently pinned (by a cpu hardware register pointing to it); once it is diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/msr.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/msr.rst index e37a14c323d2..9315fc385fb0 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/msr.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/msr.rst @@ -376,3 +376,16 @@ data: write '1' to bit 0 of the MSR, this causes the host to re-scan its queue and check if there are more notifications pending. The MSR is available if KVM_FEATURE_ASYNC_PF_INT is present in CPUID. + +MSR_KVM_MIGRATION_CONTROL: + 0x4b564d08 + +data: + This MSR is available if KVM_FEATURE_MIGRATION_CONTROL is present in + CPUID. Bit 0 represents whether live migration of the guest is allowed. + + When a guest is started, bit 0 will be 0 if the guest has encrypted + memory and 1 if the guest does not have encrypted memory. If the + guest is communicating page encryption status to the host using the + ``KVM_HC_MAP_GPA_RANGE`` hypercall, it can set bit 0 in this MSR to + allow live migration of the guest. diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/vcpu-requests.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/vcpu-requests.rst index 5feb3706a7ae..af1b37441e0a 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/vcpu-requests.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/vcpu-requests.rst @@ -118,10 +118,12 @@ KVM_REQ_MMU_RELOAD necessary to inform each VCPU to completely refresh the tables. This request is used for that. -KVM_REQ_PENDING_TIMER +KVM_REQ_UNBLOCK - This request may be made from a timer handler run on the host on behalf - of a VCPU. It informs the VCPU thread to inject a timer interrupt. + This request informs the vCPU to exit kvm_vcpu_block. It is used for + example from timer handlers that run on the host on behalf of a vCPU, + or in order to update the interrupt routing and ensure that assigned + devices will wake up the vCPU. KVM_REQ_UNHALT |