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authorDongjiu Geng <gengdongjiu@huawei.com>2018-07-19 16:24:22 +0100
committerMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>2018-07-21 16:02:30 +0100
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arm/arm64: KVM: Add KVM_GET/SET_VCPU_EVENTS
For the migrating VMs, user space may need to know the exception state. For example, in the machine A, KVM make an SError pending, when migrate to B, KVM also needs to pend an SError. This new IOCTL exports user-invisible states related to SError. Together with appropriate user space changes, user space can get/set the SError exception state to do migrate/snapshot/suspend. Signed-off-by: Dongjiu Geng <gengdongjiu@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> [expanded documentation wording] Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virtual/kvm')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt54
1 files changed, 50 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
index d10944e619d3..284d36e72f28 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
@@ -835,11 +835,13 @@ struct kvm_clock_data {
Capability: KVM_CAP_VCPU_EVENTS
Extended by: KVM_CAP_INTR_SHADOW
-Architectures: x86
-Type: vm ioctl
+Architectures: x86, arm64
+Type: vcpu ioctl
Parameters: struct kvm_vcpu_event (out)
Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
+X86:
+
Gets currently pending exceptions, interrupts, and NMIs as well as related
states of the vcpu.
@@ -881,15 +883,52 @@ Only two fields are defined in the flags field:
- KVM_VCPUEVENT_VALID_SMM may be set in the flags field to signal that
smi contains a valid state.
+ARM64:
+
+If the guest accesses a device that is being emulated by the host kernel in
+such a way that a real device would generate a physical SError, KVM may make
+a virtual SError pending for that VCPU. This system error interrupt remains
+pending until the guest takes the exception by unmasking PSTATE.A.
+
+Running the VCPU may cause it to take a pending SError, or make an access that
+causes an SError to become pending. The event's description is only valid while
+the VPCU is not running.
+
+This API provides a way to read and write the pending 'event' state that is not
+visible to the guest. To save, restore or migrate a VCPU the struct representing
+the state can be read then written using this GET/SET API, along with the other
+guest-visible registers. It is not possible to 'cancel' an SError that has been
+made pending.
+
+A device being emulated in user-space may also wish to generate an SError. To do
+this the events structure can be populated by user-space. The current state
+should be read first, to ensure no existing SError is pending. If an existing
+SError is pending, the architecture's 'Multiple SError interrupts' rules should
+be followed. (2.5.3 of DDI0587.a "ARM Reliability, Availability, and
+Serviceability (RAS) Specification").
+
+struct kvm_vcpu_events {
+ struct {
+ __u8 serror_pending;
+ __u8 serror_has_esr;
+ /* Align it to 8 bytes */
+ __u8 pad[6];
+ __u64 serror_esr;
+ } exception;
+ __u32 reserved[12];
+};
+
4.32 KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS
Capability: KVM_CAP_VCPU_EVENTS
Extended by: KVM_CAP_INTR_SHADOW
-Architectures: x86
-Type: vm ioctl
+Architectures: x86, arm64
+Type: vcpu ioctl
Parameters: struct kvm_vcpu_event (in)
Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
+X86:
+
Set pending exceptions, interrupts, and NMIs as well as related states of the
vcpu.
@@ -910,6 +949,13 @@ shall be written into the VCPU.
KVM_VCPUEVENT_VALID_SMM can only be set if KVM_CAP_X86_SMM is available.
+ARM64:
+
+Set the pending SError exception state for this VCPU. It is not possible to
+'cancel' an Serror that has been made pending.
+
+See KVM_GET_VCPU_EVENTS for the data structure.
+
4.33 KVM_GET_DEBUGREGS