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diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt index 858aecf21db..a30035dd4c2 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt @@ -1122,9 +1122,9 @@ struct kvm_cpuid2 { struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 entries[0]; }; -#define KVM_CPUID_FLAG_SIGNIFCANT_INDEX 1 -#define KVM_CPUID_FLAG_STATEFUL_FUNC 2 -#define KVM_CPUID_FLAG_STATE_READ_NEXT 4 +#define KVM_CPUID_FLAG_SIGNIFCANT_INDEX BIT(0) +#define KVM_CPUID_FLAG_STATEFUL_FUNC BIT(1) +#define KVM_CPUID_FLAG_STATE_READ_NEXT BIT(2) struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 { __u32 function; @@ -1810,6 +1810,50 @@ registers, find a list below: PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_TLB3PS | 32 PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_EPTCFG | 32 PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_ICP_STATE | 64 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_TB_OFFSET | 64 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_SPMC1 | 32 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_SPMC2 | 32 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_IAMR | 64 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_TFHAR | 64 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_TFIAR | 64 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_TEXASR | 64 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_FSCR | 64 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_PSPB | 32 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_EBBHR | 64 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_EBBRR | 64 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_BESCR | 64 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_TAR | 64 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_DPDES | 64 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_DAWR | 64 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_DAWRX | 64 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_CIABR | 64 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_IC | 64 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_VTB | 64 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_CSIGR | 64 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_TACR | 64 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_TCSCR | 64 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_PID | 64 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_ACOP | 64 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_VRSAVE | 32 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_LPCR | 64 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_PPR | 64 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_ARCH_COMPAT 32 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_TM_GPR0 | 64 + ... + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_TM_GPR31 | 64 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_TM_VSR0 | 128 + ... + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_TM_VSR63 | 128 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_TM_CR | 64 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_TM_LR | 64 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_TM_CTR | 64 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_TM_FPSCR | 64 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_TM_AMR | 64 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_TM_PPR | 64 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_TM_VRSAVE | 64 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_TM_VSCR | 32 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_TM_DSCR | 64 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_TM_TAR | 64 ARM registers are mapped using the lower 32 bits. The upper 16 of that is the register group type, or coprocessor number: @@ -2304,7 +2348,31 @@ Possible features: Depends on KVM_CAP_ARM_EL1_32BIT (arm64 only). -4.83 KVM_GET_REG_LIST +4.83 KVM_ARM_PREFERRED_TARGET + +Capability: basic +Architectures: arm, arm64 +Type: vm ioctl +Parameters: struct struct kvm_vcpu_init (out) +Returns: 0 on success; -1 on error +Errors: + ENODEV: no preferred target available for the host + +This queries KVM for preferred CPU target type which can be emulated +by KVM on underlying host. + +The ioctl returns struct kvm_vcpu_init instance containing information +about preferred CPU target type and recommended features for it. The +kvm_vcpu_init->features bitmap returned will have feature bits set if +the preferred target recommends setting these features, but this is +not mandatory. + +The information returned by this ioctl can be used to prepare an instance +of struct kvm_vcpu_init for KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT ioctl which will result in +in VCPU matching underlying host. + + +4.84 KVM_GET_REG_LIST Capability: basic Architectures: arm, arm64 @@ -2323,8 +2391,7 @@ struct kvm_reg_list { This ioctl returns the guest registers that are supported for the KVM_GET_ONE_REG/KVM_SET_ONE_REG calls. - -4.84 KVM_ARM_SET_DEVICE_ADDR +4.85 KVM_ARM_SET_DEVICE_ADDR Capability: KVM_CAP_ARM_SET_DEVICE_ADDR Architectures: arm, arm64 @@ -2362,7 +2429,7 @@ must be called after calling KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP, but before calling KVM_RUN on any of the VCPUs. Calling this ioctl twice for any of the base addresses will return -EEXIST. -4.85 KVM_PPC_RTAS_DEFINE_TOKEN +4.86 KVM_PPC_RTAS_DEFINE_TOKEN Capability: KVM_CAP_PPC_RTAS Architectures: ppc @@ -2661,6 +2728,77 @@ and usually define the validity of a groups of registers. (e.g. one bit }; +4.81 KVM_GET_EMULATED_CPUID + +Capability: KVM_CAP_EXT_EMUL_CPUID +Architectures: x86 +Type: system ioctl +Parameters: struct kvm_cpuid2 (in/out) +Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error + +struct kvm_cpuid2 { + __u32 nent; + __u32 flags; + struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 entries[0]; +}; + +The member 'flags' is used for passing flags from userspace. + +#define KVM_CPUID_FLAG_SIGNIFCANT_INDEX BIT(0) +#define KVM_CPUID_FLAG_STATEFUL_FUNC BIT(1) +#define KVM_CPUID_FLAG_STATE_READ_NEXT BIT(2) + +struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 { + __u32 function; + __u32 index; + __u32 flags; + __u32 eax; + __u32 ebx; + __u32 ecx; + __u32 edx; + __u32 padding[3]; +}; + +This ioctl returns x86 cpuid features which are emulated by +kvm.Userspace can use the information returned by this ioctl to query +which features are emulated by kvm instead of being present natively. + +Userspace invokes KVM_GET_EMULATED_CPUID by passing a kvm_cpuid2 +structure with the 'nent' field indicating the number of entries in +the variable-size array 'entries'. If the number of entries is too low +to describe the cpu capabilities, an error (E2BIG) is returned. If the +number is too high, the 'nent' field is adjusted and an error (ENOMEM) +is returned. If the number is just right, the 'nent' field is adjusted +to the number of valid entries in the 'entries' array, which is then +filled. + +The entries returned are the set CPUID bits of the respective features +which kvm emulates, as returned by the CPUID instruction, with unknown +or unsupported feature bits cleared. + +Features like x2apic, for example, may not be present in the host cpu +but are exposed by kvm in KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID because they can be +emulated efficiently and thus not included here. + +The fields in each entry are defined as follows: + + function: the eax value used to obtain the entry + index: the ecx value used to obtain the entry (for entries that are + affected by ecx) + flags: an OR of zero or more of the following: + KVM_CPUID_FLAG_SIGNIFCANT_INDEX: + if the index field is valid + KVM_CPUID_FLAG_STATEFUL_FUNC: + if cpuid for this function returns different values for successive + invocations; there will be several entries with the same function, + all with this flag set + KVM_CPUID_FLAG_STATE_READ_NEXT: + for KVM_CPUID_FLAG_STATEFUL_FUNC entries, set if this entry is + the first entry to be read by a cpu + eax, ebx, ecx, edx: the values returned by the cpuid instruction for + this function/index combination + + 6. 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