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author | David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> | 2021-03-01 12:53:09 +0000 |
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committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2021-03-02 14:30:54 -0500 |
commit | 30b5c851af7991ad08abe90c1e7c31615fa98a1a (patch) | |
tree | b8596021030db95f8825f0f947da71e004450491 /Documentation | |
parent | 7d7c5f76e54131ed05b057103b5278b6b852148b (diff) |
KVM: x86/xen: Add support for vCPU runstate information
This is how Xen guests do steal time accounting. The hypervisor records
the amount of time spent in each of running/runnable/blocked/offline
states.
In the Xen accounting, a vCPU is still in state RUNSTATE_running while
in Xen for a hypercall or I/O trap, etc. Only if Xen explicitly schedules
does the state become RUNSTATE_blocked. In KVM this means that even when
the vCPU exits the kvm_run loop, the state remains RUNSTATE_running.
The VMM can explicitly set the vCPU to RUNSTATE_blocked by using the
KVM_XEN_VCPU_ATTR_TYPE_RUNSTATE_CURRENT attribute, and can also use
KVM_XEN_VCPU_ATTR_TYPE_RUNSTATE_ADJUST to retrospectively add a given
amount of time to the blocked state and subtract it from the running
state.
The state_entry_time corresponds to get_kvmclock_ns() at the time the
vCPU entered the current state, and the total times of all four states
should always add up to state_entry_time.
Co-developed-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Message-Id: <20210301125309.874953-2-dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 41 |
1 files changed, 41 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst index 359435d4e417..1a2b5210cdbf 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst @@ -4878,6 +4878,14 @@ see KVM_XEN_HVM_SET_ATTR above. union { __u64 gpa; __u64 pad[4]; + struct { + __u64 state; + __u64 state_entry_time; + __u64 time_running; + __u64 time_runnable; + __u64 time_blocked; + __u64 time_offline; + } runstate; } u; }; @@ -4890,6 +4898,31 @@ KVM_XEN_VCPU_ATTR_TYPE_VCPU_TIME_INFO Sets the guest physical address of an additional pvclock structure for a given vCPU. This is typically used for guest vsyscall support. +KVM_XEN_VCPU_ATTR_TYPE_RUNSTATE_ADDR + Sets the guest physical address of the vcpu_runstate_info for a given + vCPU. This is how a Xen guest tracks CPU state such as steal time. + +KVM_XEN_VCPU_ATTR_TYPE_RUNSTATE_CURRENT + Sets the runstate (RUNSTATE_running/_runnable/_blocked/_offline) of + the given vCPU from the .u.runstate.state member of the structure. + KVM automatically accounts running and runnable time but blocked + and offline states are only entered explicitly. + +KVM_XEN_VCPU_ATTR_TYPE_RUNSTATE_DATA + Sets all fields of the vCPU runstate data from the .u.runstate member + of the structure, including the current runstate. The state_entry_time + must equal the sum of the other four times. + +KVM_XEN_VCPU_ATTR_TYPE_RUNSTATE_ADJUST + This *adds* the contents of the .u.runstate members of the structure + to the corresponding members of the given vCPU's runstate data, thus + permitting atomic adjustments to the runstate times. The adjustment + to the state_entry_time must equal the sum of the adjustments to the + other four times. The state field must be set to -1, or to a valid + runstate value (RUNSTATE_running, RUNSTATE_runnable, RUNSTATE_blocked + or RUNSTATE_offline) to set the current accounted state as of the + adjusted state_entry_time. + 4.130 KVM_XEN_VCPU_GET_ATTR --------------------------- @@ -4902,6 +4935,9 @@ KVM_XEN_VCPU_ATTR_TYPE_VCPU_TIME_INFO Allows Xen vCPU attributes to be read. For the structure and types, see KVM_XEN_VCPU_SET_ATTR above. +The KVM_XEN_VCPU_ATTR_TYPE_RUNSTATE_ADJUST type may not be used +with the KVM_XEN_VCPU_GET_ATTR ioctl. + 5. The kvm_run structure ======================== @@ -6666,6 +6702,7 @@ PVHVM guests. Valid flags are:: #define KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG_HYPERCALL_MSR (1 << 0) #define KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG_INTERCEPT_HCALL (1 << 1) #define KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG_SHARED_INFO (1 << 2) + #define KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG_RUNSTATE (1 << 2) The KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG_HYPERCALL_MSR flag indicates that the KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG ioctl is available, for the guest to set its hypercall page. @@ -6680,3 +6717,7 @@ KVM_XEN_HVM_SET_ATTR, KVM_XEN_HVM_GET_ATTR, KVM_XEN_VCPU_SET_ATTR and KVM_XEN_VCPU_GET_ATTR ioctls, as well as the delivery of exception vectors for event channel upcalls when the evtchn_upcall_pending field of a vcpu's vcpu_info is set. + +The KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG_RUNSTATE flag indicates that the runstate-related +features KVM_XEN_VCPU_ATTR_TYPE_RUNSTATE_ADDR/_CURRENT/_DATA/_ADJUST are +supported by the KVM_XEN_VCPU_SET_ATTR/KVM_XEN_VCPU_GET_ATTR ioctls. |