linux-toradex.git/Documentation/virtual, branch v3.5.1

KVM: Add missing KVM_IRQFD API documentation

2012-07-03T00:10:30+00:00

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson 
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin 
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti

Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

2012-05-24T23:17:30+00:00

Pull KVM changes from Avi Kivity:
 "Changes include additional instruction emulation, page-crossing MMIO,
  faster dirty logging, preventing the watchdog from killing a stopped
  guest, module autoload, a new MSI ABI, and some minor optimizations
  and fixes.  Outside x86 we have a small s390 and a very large ppc
  update.

  Regarding the new (for kvm) rebaseless workflow, some of the patches
  that were merged before we switch trees had to be rebased, while
  others are true pulls.  In either case the signoffs should be correct
  now."

Fix up trivial conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_segment.S and arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h.

I suspect the kvm_para.h resolution ends up doing the "do I have cpuid"
check effectively twice (it was done differently in two different
commits), but better safe than sorry ;)

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (125 commits)
  KVM: make asm-generic/kvm_para.h have an ifdef __KERNEL__ block
  KVM: s390: onereg for timer related registers
  KVM: s390: epoch difference and TOD programmable field
  KVM: s390: KVM_GET/SET_ONEREG for s390
  KVM: s390: add capability indicating COW support
  KVM: Fix mmu_reload() clash with nested vmx event injection
  KVM: MMU: Don't use RCU for lockless shadow walking
  KVM: VMX: Optimize %ds, %es reload
  KVM: VMX: Fix %ds/%es clobber
  KVM: x86 emulator: convert bsf/bsr instructions to emulate_2op_SrcV_nobyte()
  KVM: VMX: unlike vmcs on fail path
  KVM: PPC: Emulator: clean up SPR reads and writes
  KVM: PPC: Emulator: clean up instruction parsing
  kvm/powerpc: Add new ioctl to retreive server MMU infos
  kvm/book3s: Make kernel emulated H_PUT_TCE available for "PR" KVM
  KVM: PPC: bookehv: Fix r8/r13 storing in level exception handler
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Enable IRQs during exit handling
  KVM: PPC: Fix PR KVM on POWER7 bare metal
  KVM: PPC: Fix stbux emulation
  KVM: PPC: bookehv: Use lwz/stw instead of PPC_LL/PPC_STL for 32-bit fields
  ...

virtio: update documentation to v0.9.5 of spec

2012-05-22T02:46:09+00:00

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

Merge branch 'for-upstream' of git://github.com/agraf/linux-2.6 into next

2012-05-08T14:00:13+00:00

PPC updates from Alex.

* 'for-upstream' of git://github.com/agraf/linux-2.6:
  KVM: PPC: Emulator: clean up SPR reads and writes
  KVM: PPC: Emulator: clean up instruction parsing
  kvm/powerpc: Add new ioctl to retreive server MMU infos
  kvm/book3s: Make kernel emulated H_PUT_TCE available for "PR" KVM
  KVM: PPC: bookehv: Fix r8/r13 storing in level exception handler
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Enable IRQs during exit handling
  KVM: PPC: Fix PR KVM on POWER7 bare metal
  KVM: PPC: Fix stbux emulation
  KVM: PPC: bookehv: Use lwz/stw instead of PPC_LL/PPC_STL for 32-bit fields
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: PR: No isync in slbie path
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: PR: Optimize entry path
  KVM: PPC: booke(hv): Fix save/restore of guest accessible SPRGs.
  KVM: PPC: Restrict PPC_[L|ST]D macro to asm code
  KVM: PPC: bookehv: Use a Macro for saving/restoring guest registers to/from their 64 bit copies.
  KVM: PPC: Use clockevent multiplier and shifter for decrementer
  KVM: Use minimum and maximum address mapped by TLB1

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity

kvm/powerpc: Add new ioctl to retreive server MMU infos

2012-05-06T14:19:12+00:00

This is necessary for qemu to be able to pass the right information
to the guest, such as the supported page sizes and corresponding
encodings in the SLB and hash table, which can vary depending
on the processor type, the type of KVM used (PR vs HV) and the
version of KVM

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
[agraf: fix compilation on hv, adjust for newer ioctl numbers]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf

KVM: fix cpuid eax for KVM leaf

2012-05-06T12:51:56+00:00

cpuid eax should return the max leaf so that
guests can find out the valid range.
This matches Xen et al.
Update documentation to match.

Tested with -cpu host.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin 
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity

KVM: x86: Run PIT work in own kthread

2012-04-27T22:40:29+00:00

We can't run PIT IRQ injection work in the interrupt context of the host
timer. This would allow the user to influence the handler complexity by
asking for a broadcast to a large number of VCPUs. Therefore, this work
was pushed into workqueue context in 9d244caf2e. However, this prevents
prioritizing the PIT injection over other task as workqueues share
kernel threads.

This replaces the workqueue with a kthread worker and gives that thread
a name in the format "kvm-pit/". That allows to
identify and adjust the kthread priority according to the VM process
parameters.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka 
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti

KVM: x86: Document in-kernel PIT API

2012-04-27T22:40:29+00:00

Add descriptions for KVM_CREATE_PIT2 and KVM_GET/SET_PIT2.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka 
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti

KVM: Improve readability of KVM API doc

2012-04-27T22:40:28+00:00

This helps to identify sections and it also fixes the numbering from
4.54 to 4.61.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka 
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti

KVM: Introduce direct MSI message injection for in-kernel irqchips

2012-04-24T12:59:47+00:00

Currently, MSI messages can only be injected to in-kernel irqchips by
defining a corresponding IRQ route for each message. This is not only
unhandy if the MSI messages are generated "on the fly" by user space,
IRQ routes are a limited resource that user space has to manage
carefully.

By providing a direct injection path, we can both avoid using up limited
resources and simplify the necessary steps for user land.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka 
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity