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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kvm/api.txt | 178 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kvm/cpuid.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kvm/msr.txt | 36 |
4 files changed, 219 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 338c96ea0855..55fe7599bc8e 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1705,6 +1705,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver + no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page + fault handling. + nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer. diff --git a/Documentation/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/kvm/api.txt index 50713e37c695..ad85797c1cf0 100644 --- a/Documentation/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/kvm/api.txt @@ -1085,6 +1085,184 @@ of 4 instructions that make up a hypercall. If any additional field gets added to this structure later on, a bit for that additional piece of information will be set in the flags bitmap. +4.47 KVM_ASSIGN_PCI_DEVICE + +Capability: KVM_CAP_DEVICE_ASSIGNMENT +Architectures: x86 ia64 +Type: vm ioctl +Parameters: struct kvm_assigned_pci_dev (in) +Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error + +Assigns a host PCI device to the VM. + +struct kvm_assigned_pci_dev { + __u32 assigned_dev_id; + __u32 busnr; + __u32 devfn; + __u32 flags; + __u32 segnr; + union { + __u32 reserved[11]; + }; +}; + +The PCI device is specified by the triple segnr, busnr, and devfn. +Identification in succeeding service requests is done via assigned_dev_id. The +following flags are specified: + +/* Depends on KVM_CAP_IOMMU */ +#define KVM_DEV_ASSIGN_ENABLE_IOMMU (1 << 0) + +4.48 KVM_DEASSIGN_PCI_DEVICE + +Capability: KVM_CAP_DEVICE_DEASSIGNMENT +Architectures: x86 ia64 +Type: vm ioctl +Parameters: struct kvm_assigned_pci_dev (in) +Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error + +Ends PCI device assignment, releasing all associated resources. + +See KVM_CAP_DEVICE_ASSIGNMENT for the data structure. Only assigned_dev_id is +used in kvm_assigned_pci_dev to identify the device. + +4.49 KVM_ASSIGN_DEV_IRQ + +Capability: KVM_CAP_ASSIGN_DEV_IRQ +Architectures: x86 ia64 +Type: vm ioctl +Parameters: struct kvm_assigned_irq (in) +Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error + +Assigns an IRQ to a passed-through device. + +struct kvm_assigned_irq { + __u32 assigned_dev_id; + __u32 host_irq; + __u32 guest_irq; + __u32 flags; + union { + struct { + __u32 addr_lo; + __u32 addr_hi; + __u32 data; + } guest_msi; + __u32 reserved[12]; + }; +}; + +The following flags are defined: + +#define KVM_DEV_IRQ_HOST_INTX (1 << 0) +#define KVM_DEV_IRQ_HOST_MSI (1 << 1) +#define KVM_DEV_IRQ_HOST_MSIX (1 << 2) + +#define KVM_DEV_IRQ_GUEST_INTX (1 << 8) +#define KVM_DEV_IRQ_GUEST_MSI (1 << 9) +#define KVM_DEV_IRQ_GUEST_MSIX (1 << 10) + +It is not valid to specify multiple types per host or guest IRQ. However, the +IRQ type of host and guest can differ or can even be null. + +4.50 KVM_DEASSIGN_DEV_IRQ + +Capability: KVM_CAP_ASSIGN_DEV_IRQ +Architectures: x86 ia64 +Type: vm ioctl +Parameters: struct kvm_assigned_irq (in) +Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error + +Ends an IRQ assignment to a passed-through device. + +See KVM_ASSIGN_DEV_IRQ for the data structure. The target device is specified +by assigned_dev_id, flags must correspond to the IRQ type specified on +KVM_ASSIGN_DEV_IRQ. Partial deassignment of host or guest IRQ is allowed. + +4.51 KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING + +Capability: KVM_CAP_IRQ_ROUTING +Architectures: x86 ia64 +Type: vm ioctl +Parameters: struct kvm_irq_routing (in) +Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error + +Sets the GSI routing table entries, overwriting any previously set entries. + +struct kvm_irq_routing { + __u32 nr; + __u32 flags; + struct kvm_irq_routing_entry entries[0]; +}; + +No flags are specified so far, the corresponding field must be set to zero. + +struct kvm_irq_routing_entry { + __u32 gsi; + __u32 type; + __u32 flags; + __u32 pad; + union { + struct kvm_irq_routing_irqchip irqchip; + struct kvm_irq_routing_msi msi; + __u32 pad[8]; + } u; +}; + +/* gsi routing entry types */ +#define KVM_IRQ_ROUTING_IRQCHIP 1 +#define KVM_IRQ_ROUTING_MSI 2 + +No flags are specified so far, the corresponding field must be set to zero. + +struct kvm_irq_routing_irqchip { + __u32 irqchip; + __u32 pin; +}; + +struct kvm_irq_routing_msi { + __u32 address_lo; + __u32 address_hi; + __u32 data; + __u32 pad; +}; + +4.52 KVM_ASSIGN_SET_MSIX_NR + +Capability: KVM_CAP_DEVICE_MSIX +Architectures: x86 ia64 +Type: vm ioctl +Parameters: struct kvm_assigned_msix_nr (in) +Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error + +Set the number of MSI-X interrupts for an assigned device. This service can +only be called once in the lifetime of an assigned device. + +struct kvm_assigned_msix_nr { + __u32 assigned_dev_id; + __u16 entry_nr; + __u16 padding; +}; + +#define KVM_MAX_MSIX_PER_DEV 256 + +4.53 KVM_ASSIGN_SET_MSIX_ENTRY + +Capability: KVM_CAP_DEVICE_MSIX +Architectures: x86 ia64 +Type: vm ioctl +Parameters: struct kvm_assigned_msix_entry (in) +Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error + +Specifies the routing of an MSI-X assigned device interrupt to a GSI. Setting +the GSI vector to zero means disabling the interrupt. + +struct kvm_assigned_msix_entry { + __u32 assigned_dev_id; + __u32 gsi; + __u16 entry; /* The index of entry in the MSI-X table */ + __u16 padding[3]; +}; + 5. The kvm_run structure Application code obtains a pointer to the kvm_run structure by diff --git a/Documentation/kvm/cpuid.txt b/Documentation/kvm/cpuid.txt index 14a12ea92b7f..882068538c9c 100644 --- a/Documentation/kvm/cpuid.txt +++ b/Documentation/kvm/cpuid.txt @@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ KVM_FEATURE_MMU_OP || 2 || deprecated. KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE2 || 3 || kvmclock available at msrs || || 0x4b564d00 and 0x4b564d01 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +KVM_FEATURE_ASYNC_PF || 4 || async pf can be enabled by + || || writing to msr 0x4b564d02 +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE_STABLE_BIT || 24 || host will warn if no guest-side || || per-cpu warps are expected in || || kvmclock. diff --git a/Documentation/kvm/msr.txt b/Documentation/kvm/msr.txt index 8ddcfe84c09a..d079aed27e03 100644 --- a/Documentation/kvm/msr.txt +++ b/Documentation/kvm/msr.txt @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>, Red Hat Inc, 2010 ===================================================== KVM makes use of some custom MSRs to service some requests. -At present, this facility is only used by kvmclock. Custom MSRs have a range reserved for them, that goes from 0x4b564d00 to 0x4b564dff. There are MSRs outside this area, @@ -151,3 +150,38 @@ MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME: 0x12 return PRESENT; } else return NON_PRESENT; + +MSR_KVM_ASYNC_PF_EN: 0x4b564d02 + data: Bits 63-6 hold 64-byte aligned physical address of a + 64 byte memory area which must be in guest RAM and must be + zeroed. Bits 5-2 are reserved and should be zero. Bit 0 is 1 + when asynchronous page faults are enabled on the vcpu 0 when + disabled. Bit 2 is 1 if asynchronous page faults can be injected + when vcpu is in cpl == 0. + + First 4 byte of 64 byte memory location will be written to by + the hypervisor at the time of asynchronous page fault (APF) + injection to indicate type of asynchronous page fault. Value + of 1 means that the page referred to by the page fault is not + present. Value 2 means that the page is now available. Disabling + interrupt inhibits APFs. Guest must not enable interrupt + before the reason is read, or it may be overwritten by another + APF. Since APF uses the same exception vector as regular page + fault guest must reset the reason to 0 before it does + something that can generate normal page fault. If during page + fault APF reason is 0 it means that this is regular page + fault. + + During delivery of type 1 APF cr2 contains a token that will + be used to notify a guest when missing page becomes + available. When page becomes available type 2 APF is sent with + cr2 set to the token associated with the page. There is special + kind of token 0xffffffff which tells vcpu that it should wake + up all processes waiting for APFs and no individual type 2 APFs + will be sent. + + If APF is disabled while there are outstanding APFs, they will + not be delivered. + + Currently type 2 APF will be always delivered on the same vcpu as + type 1 was, but guest should not rely on that. |