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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. :: |