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| author | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2016-03-09 11:50:42 +0100 |
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| committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2016-03-09 11:50:42 +0100 |
| commit | ab92f30875a7ec3e84644a5494febd8901e66742 (patch) | |
| tree | 5254eb36b20b0d1c584c15d0bf3d6a5a9c1bb451 /Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices | |
| parent | bb9eadf0c35f2e7eb5ca6468f46ebb7473b85537 (diff) | |
| parent | b40c4892d175874d118860c8282a85ee7b64bcbb (diff) | |
Merge tag 'kvm-arm-for-4.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD
KVM/ARM updates for 4.6
- VHE support so that we can run the kernel at EL2 on ARMv8.1 systems
- PMU support for guests
- 32bit world switch rewritten in C
- Various optimizations to the vgic save/restore code
Conflicts:
include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vcpu.txt | 33 |
1 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vcpu.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vcpu.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..c04165868faf --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vcpu.txt @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +Generic vcpu interface +==================================== + +The virtual cpu "device" also accepts the ioctls KVM_SET_DEVICE_ATTR, +KVM_GET_DEVICE_ATTR, and KVM_HAS_DEVICE_ATTR. The interface uses the same struct +kvm_device_attr as other devices, but targets VCPU-wide settings and controls. + +The groups and attributes per virtual cpu, if any, are architecture specific. + +1. GROUP: KVM_ARM_VCPU_PMU_V3_CTRL +Architectures: ARM64 + +1.1. ATTRIBUTE: KVM_ARM_VCPU_PMU_V3_IRQ +Parameters: in kvm_device_attr.addr the address for PMU overflow interrupt is a + pointer to an int +Returns: -EBUSY: The PMU overflow interrupt is already set + -ENXIO: The overflow interrupt not set when attempting to get it + -ENODEV: PMUv3 not supported + -EINVAL: Invalid PMU overflow interrupt number supplied + +A value describing the PMUv3 (Performance Monitor Unit v3) overflow interrupt +number for this vcpu. This interrupt could be a PPI or SPI, but the interrupt +type must be same for each vcpu. As a PPI, the interrupt number is the same for +all vcpus, while as an SPI it must be a separate number per vcpu. + +1.2 ATTRIBUTE: KVM_ARM_VCPU_PMU_V3_INIT +Parameters: no additional parameter in kvm_device_attr.addr +Returns: -ENODEV: PMUv3 not supported + -ENXIO: PMUv3 not properly configured as required prior to calling this + attribute + -EBUSY: PMUv3 already initialized + +Request the initialization of the PMUv3. |