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diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst index eee9f857a986..773e4b202f47 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst @@ -7921,7 +7921,7 @@ regardless of what has actually been exposed through the CPUID leaf. 8.29 KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING/KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING_ACQ_REL ---------------------------------------------------------- -:Architectures: x86 +:Architectures: x86, arm64 :Parameters: args[0] - size of the dirty log ring KVM is capable of tracking dirty memory using ring buffers that are @@ -8003,13 +8003,6 @@ flushing is done by the KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG ioctl). To achieve that, one needs to kick the vcpu out of KVM_RUN using a signal. The resulting vmexit ensures that all dirty GFNs are flushed to the dirty rings. -NOTE: the capability KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING and the corresponding -ioctl KVM_RESET_DIRTY_RINGS are mutual exclusive to the existing ioctls -KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG and KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG. After enabling -KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING with an acceptable dirty ring size, the virtual -machine will switch to ring-buffer dirty page tracking and further -KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG or KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG ioctls will fail. - NOTE: KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING_ACQ_REL is the only capability that should be exposed by weakly ordered architecture, in order to indicate the additional memory ordering requirements imposed on userspace when @@ -8018,6 +8011,33 @@ Architecture with TSO-like ordering (such as x86) are allowed to expose both KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING and KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING_ACQ_REL to userspace. +After enabling the dirty rings, the userspace needs to detect the +capability of KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING_WITH_BITMAP to see whether the +ring structures can be backed by per-slot bitmaps. With this capability +advertised, it means the architecture can dirty guest pages without +vcpu/ring context, so that some of the dirty information will still be +maintained in the bitmap structure. KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING_WITH_BITMAP +can't be enabled if the capability of KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING_ACQ_REL +hasn't been enabled, or any memslot has been existing. + +Note that the bitmap here is only a backup of the ring structure. The +use of the ring and bitmap combination is only beneficial if there is +only a very small amount of memory that is dirtied out of vcpu/ring +context. Otherwise, the stand-alone per-slot bitmap mechanism needs to +be considered. + +To collect dirty bits in the backup bitmap, userspace can use the same +KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG ioctl. KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG isn't needed as long as all +the generation of the dirty bits is done in a single pass. Collecting +the dirty bitmap should be the very last thing that the VMM does before +considering the state as complete. VMM needs to ensure that the dirty +state is final and avoid missing dirty pages from another ioctl ordered +after the bitmap collection. + +NOTE: One example of using the backup bitmap is saving arm64 vgic/its +tables through KVM_DEV_ARM_{VGIC_GRP_CTRL, ITS_SAVE_TABLES} command on +KVM device "kvm-arm-vgic-its" when dirty ring is enabled. + 8.30 KVM_CAP_XEN_HVM -------------------- |