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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-02-13 09:55:09 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-02-13 09:55:09 -0800 |
commit | b9085bcbf5f43adf60533f9b635b2e7faeed0fe9 (patch) | |
tree | e397abf5682a45c096e75b3d0fa99c8e228425fc /Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | |
parent | c7d7b98671552abade78834c522b7308bda73c0d (diff) | |
parent | 6557bada461afeaa920a189fae2cff7c8fdce39f (diff) |
Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Pull KVM update from Paolo Bonzini:
"Fairly small update, but there are some interesting new features.
Common:
Optional support for adding a small amount of polling on each HLT
instruction executed in the guest (or equivalent for other
architectures). This can improve latency up to 50% on some
scenarios (e.g. O_DSYNC writes or TCP_RR netperf tests). This
also has to be enabled manually for now, but the plan is to
auto-tune this in the future.
ARM/ARM64:
The highlights are support for GICv3 emulation and dirty page
tracking
s390:
Several optimizations and bugfixes. Also a first: a feature
exposed by KVM (UUID and long guest name in /proc/sysinfo) before
it is available in IBM's hypervisor! :)
MIPS:
Bugfixes.
x86:
Support for PML (page modification logging, a new feature in
Broadwell Xeons that speeds up dirty page tracking), nested
virtualization improvements (nested APICv---a nice optimization),
usual round of emulation fixes.
There is also a new option to reduce latency of the TSC deadline
timer in the guest; this needs to be tuned manually.
Some commits are common between this pull and Catalin's; I see you
have already included his tree.
Powerpc:
Nothing yet.
The KVM/PPC changes will come in through the PPC maintainers,
because I haven't received them yet and I might end up being
offline for some part of next week"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (130 commits)
KVM: ia64: drop kvm.h from installed user headers
KVM: x86: fix build with !CONFIG_SMP
KVM: x86: emulate: correct page fault error code for NoWrite instructions
KVM: Disable compat ioctl for s390
KVM: s390: add cpu model support
KVM: s390: use facilities and cpu_id per KVM
KVM: s390/CPACF: Choose crypto control block format
s390/kernel: Update /proc/sysinfo file with Extended Name and UUID
KVM: s390: reenable LPP facility
KVM: s390: floating irqs: fix user triggerable endless loop
kvm: add halt_poll_ns module parameter
kvm: remove KVM_MMIO_SIZE
KVM: MIPS: Don't leak FPU/DSP to guest
KVM: MIPS: Disable HTW while in guest
KVM: nVMX: Enable nested posted interrupt processing
KVM: nVMX: Enable nested virtual interrupt delivery
KVM: nVMX: Enable nested apic register virtualization
KVM: nVMX: Make nested control MSRs per-cpu
KVM: nVMX: Enable nested virtualize x2apic mode
KVM: nVMX: Prepare for using hardware MSR bitmap
...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt')
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1 files changed, 29 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt index 0007fef4ed81..b112efc816f1 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt @@ -612,11 +612,14 @@ Type: vm ioctl Parameters: none Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error -Creates an interrupt controller model in the kernel. On x86, creates a virtual -ioapic, a virtual PIC (two PICs, nested), and sets up future vcpus to have a -local APIC. IRQ routing for GSIs 0-15 is set to both PIC and IOAPIC; GSI 16-23 -only go to the IOAPIC. On ARM/arm64, a GIC is -created. On s390, a dummy irq routing table is created. +Creates an interrupt controller model in the kernel. +On x86, creates a virtual ioapic, a virtual PIC (two PICs, nested), and sets up +future vcpus to have a local APIC. IRQ routing for GSIs 0-15 is set to both +PIC and IOAPIC; GSI 16-23 only go to the IOAPIC. +On ARM/arm64, a GICv2 is created. Any other GIC versions require the usage of +KVM_CREATE_DEVICE, which also supports creating a GICv2. Using +KVM_CREATE_DEVICE is preferred over KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP for GICv2. +On s390, a dummy irq routing table is created. Note that on s390 the KVM_CAP_S390_IRQCHIP vm capability needs to be enabled before KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP can be used. @@ -2312,7 +2315,7 @@ struct kvm_s390_interrupt { type can be one of the following: -KVM_S390_SIGP_STOP (vcpu) - sigp restart +KVM_S390_SIGP_STOP (vcpu) - sigp stop; optional flags in parm KVM_S390_PROGRAM_INT (vcpu) - program check; code in parm KVM_S390_SIGP_SET_PREFIX (vcpu) - sigp set prefix; prefix address in parm KVM_S390_RESTART (vcpu) - restart @@ -3225,3 +3228,23 @@ userspace from doing that. If the hcall number specified is not one that has an in-kernel implementation, the KVM_ENABLE_CAP ioctl will fail with an EINVAL error. + +7.2 KVM_CAP_S390_USER_SIGP + +Architectures: s390 +Parameters: none + +This capability controls which SIGP orders will be handled completely in user +space. With this capability enabled, all fast orders will be handled completely +in the kernel: +- SENSE +- SENSE RUNNING +- EXTERNAL CALL +- EMERGENCY SIGNAL +- CONDITIONAL EMERGENCY SIGNAL + +All other orders will be handled completely in user space. + +Only privileged operation exceptions will be checked for in the kernel (or even +in the hardware prior to interception). If this capability is not enabled, the +old way of handling SIGP orders is used (partially in kernel and user space). |