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diff --git a/Documentation/virt/hyperv/index.rst b/Documentation/virt/hyperv/index.rst index 4a7a1b738bbe..de447e11b4a5 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/hyperv/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/hyperv/index.rst @@ -10,3 +10,4 @@ Hyper-V Enlightenments overview vmbus clocks + vpci diff --git a/Documentation/virt/hyperv/vpci.rst b/Documentation/virt/hyperv/vpci.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..b65b2126ede3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/virt/hyperv/vpci.rst @@ -0,0 +1,316 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +PCI pass-thru devices +========================= +In a Hyper-V guest VM, PCI pass-thru devices (also called +virtual PCI devices, or vPCI devices) are physical PCI devices +that are mapped directly into the VM's physical address space. +Guest device drivers can interact directly with the hardware +without intermediation by the host hypervisor. This approach +provides higher bandwidth access to the device with lower +latency, compared with devices that are virtualized by the +hypervisor. The device should appear to the guest just as it +would when running on bare metal, so no changes are required +to the Linux device drivers for the device. + +Hyper-V terminology for vPCI devices is "Discrete Device +Assignment" (DDA). Public documentation for Hyper-V DDA is +available here: `DDA`_ + +.. _DDA: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/virtualization/hyper-v/plan/plan-for-deploying-devices-using-discrete-device-assignment + +DDA is typically used for storage controllers, such as NVMe, +and for GPUs. A similar mechanism for NICs is called SR-IOV +and produces the same benefits by allowing a guest device +driver to interact directly with the hardware. See Hyper-V +public documentation here: `SR-IOV`_ + +.. _SR-IOV: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/network/overview-of-single-root-i-o-virtualization--sr-iov- + +This discussion of vPCI devices includes DDA and SR-IOV +devices. + +Device Presentation +------------------- +Hyper-V provides full PCI functionality for a vPCI device when +it is operating, so the Linux device driver for the device can +be used unchanged, provided it uses the correct Linux kernel +APIs for accessing PCI config space and for other integration +with Linux. But the initial detection of the PCI device and +its integration with the Linux PCI subsystem must use Hyper-V +specific mechanisms. Consequently, vPCI devices on Hyper-V +have a dual identity. They are initially presented to Linux +guests as VMBus devices via the standard VMBus "offer" +mechanism, so they have a VMBus identity and appear under +/sys/bus/vmbus/devices. The VMBus vPCI driver in Linux at +drivers/pci/controller/pci-hyperv.c handles a newly introduced +vPCI device by fabricating a PCI bus topology and creating all +the normal PCI device data structures in Linux that would +exist if the PCI device were discovered via ACPI on a bare- +metal system. Once those data structures are set up, the +device also has a normal PCI identity in Linux, and the normal +Linux device driver for the vPCI device can function as if it +were running in Linux on bare-metal. Because vPCI devices are +presented dynamically through the VMBus offer mechanism, they +do not appear in the Linux guest's ACPI tables. vPCI devices +may be added to a VM or removed from a VM at any time during +the life of the VM, and not just during initial boot. + +With this approach, the vPCI device is a VMBus device and a +PCI device at the same time. In response to the VMBus offer +message, the hv_pci_probe() function runs and establishes a +VMBus connection to the vPCI VSP on the Hyper-V host. That +connection has a single VMBus channel. The channel is used to +exchange messages with the vPCI VSP for the purpose of setting +up and configuring the vPCI device in Linux. Once the device +is fully configured in Linux as a PCI device, the VMBus +channel is used only if Linux changes the vCPU to be interrupted +in the guest, or if the vPCI device is removed from +the VM while the VM is running. The ongoing operation of the +device happens directly between the Linux device driver for +the device and the hardware, with VMBus and the VMBus channel +playing no role. + +PCI Device Setup +---------------- +PCI device setup follows a sequence that Hyper-V originally +created for Windows guests, and that can be ill-suited for +Linux guests due to differences in the overall structure of +the Linux PCI subsystem compared with Windows. Nonetheless, +with a bit of hackery in the Hyper-V virtual PCI driver for +Linux, the virtual PCI device is setup in Linux so that +generic Linux PCI subsystem code and the Linux driver for the +device "just work". + +Each vPCI device is set up in Linux to be in its own PCI +domain with a host bridge. The PCI domainID is derived from +bytes 4 and 5 of the instance GUID assigned to the VMBus vPCI +device. The Hyper-V host does not guarantee that these bytes +are unique, so hv_pci_probe() has an algorithm to resolve +collisions. The collision resolution is intended to be stable +across reboots of the same VM so that the PCI domainIDs don't +change, as the domainID appears in the user space +configuration of some devices. + +hv_pci_probe() allocates a guest MMIO range to be used as PCI +config space for the device. This MMIO range is communicated +to the Hyper-V host over the VMBus channel as part of telling +the host that the device is ready to enter d0. See +hv_pci_enter_d0(). When the guest subsequently accesses this +MMIO range, the Hyper-V host intercepts the accesses and maps +them to the physical device PCI config space. + +hv_pci_probe() also gets BAR information for the device from +the Hyper-V host, and uses this information to allocate MMIO +space for the BARs. That MMIO space is then setup to be +associated with the host bridge so that it works when generic +PCI subsystem code in Linux processes the BARs. + +Finally, hv_pci_probe() creates the root PCI bus. At this +point the Hyper-V virtual PCI driver hackery is done, and the +normal Linux PCI machinery for scanning the root bus works to +detect the device, to perform driver matching, and to +initialize the driver and device. + +PCI Device Removal +------------------ +A Hyper-V host may initiate removal of a vPCI device from a +guest VM at any time during the life of the VM. The removal +is instigated by an admin action taken on the Hyper-V host and +is not under the control of the guest OS. + +A guest VM is notified of the removal by an unsolicited +"Eject" message sent from the host to the guest over the VMBus +channel associated with the vPCI device. Upon receipt of such +a message, the Hyper-V virtual PCI driver in Linux +asynchronously invokes Linux kernel PCI subsystem calls to +shutdown and remove the device. When those calls are +complete, an "Ejection Complete" message is sent back to +Hyper-V over the VMBus channel indicating that the device has +been removed. At this point, Hyper-V sends a VMBus rescind +message to the Linux guest, which the VMBus driver in Linux +processes by removing the VMBus identity for the device. Once +that processing is complete, all vestiges of the device having +been present are gone from the Linux kernel. The rescind +message also indicates to the guest that Hyper-V has stopped +providing support for the vPCI device in the guest. If the +guest were to attempt to access that device's MMIO space, it +would be an invalid reference. Hypercalls affecting the device +return errors, and any further messages sent in the VMBus +channel are ignored. + +After sending the Eject message, Hyper-V allows the guest VM +60 seconds to cleanly shutdown the device and respond with +Ejection Complete before sending the VMBus rescind +message. If for any reason the Eject steps don't complete +within the allowed 60 seconds, the Hyper-V host forcibly +performs the rescind steps, which will likely result in +cascading errors in the guest because the device is now no +longer present from the guest standpoint and accessing the +device MMIO space will fail. + +Because ejection is asynchronous and can happen at any point +during the guest VM lifecycle, proper synchronization in the +Hyper-V virtual PCI driver is very tricky. Ejection has been +observed even before a newly offered vPCI device has been +fully setup. The Hyper-V virtual PCI driver has been updated +several times over the years to fix race conditions when +ejections happen at inopportune times. Care must be taken when +modifying this code to prevent re-introducing such problems. +See comments in the code. + +Interrupt Assignment +-------------------- +The Hyper-V virtual PCI driver supports vPCI devices using +MSI, multi-MSI, or MSI-X. Assigning the guest vCPU that will +receive the interrupt for a particular MSI or MSI-X message is +complex because of the way the Linux setup of IRQs maps onto +the Hyper-V interfaces. For the single-MSI and MSI-X cases, +Linux calls hv_compse_msi_msg() twice, with the first call +containing a dummy vCPU and the second call containing the +real vCPU. Furthermore, hv_irq_unmask() is finally called +(on x86) or the GICD registers are set (on arm64) to specify +the real vCPU again. Each of these three calls interact +with Hyper-V, which must decide which physical CPU should +receive the interrupt before it is forwarded to the guest VM. +Unfortunately, the Hyper-V decision-making process is a bit +limited, and can result in concentrating the physical +interrupts on a single CPU, causing a performance bottleneck. +See details about how this is resolved in the extensive +comment above the function hv_compose_msi_req_get_cpu(). + +The Hyper-V virtual PCI driver implements the +irq_chip.irq_compose_msi_msg function as hv_compose_msi_msg(). +Unfortunately, on Hyper-V the implementation requires sending +a VMBus message to the Hyper-V host and awaiting an interrupt +indicating receipt of a reply message. Since +irq_chip.irq_compose_msi_msg can be called with IRQ locks +held, it doesn't work to do the normal sleep until awakened by +the interrupt. Instead hv_compose_msi_msg() must send the +VMBus message, and then poll for the completion message. As +further complexity, the vPCI device could be ejected/rescinded +while the polling is in progress, so this scenario must be +detected as well. See comments in the code regarding this +very tricky area. + +Most of the code in the Hyper-V virtual PCI driver (pci- +hyperv.c) applies to Hyper-V and Linux guests running on x86 +and on arm64 architectures. But there are differences in how +interrupt assignments are managed. On x86, the Hyper-V +virtual PCI driver in the guest must make a hypercall to tell +Hyper-V which guest vCPU should be interrupted by each +MSI/MSI-X interrupt, and the x86 interrupt vector number that +the x86_vector IRQ domain has picked for the interrupt. This +hypercall is made by hv_arch_irq_unmask(). On arm64, the +Hyper-V virtual PCI driver manages the allocation of an SPI +for each MSI/MSI-X interrupt. The Hyper-V virtual PCI driver +stores the allocated SPI in the architectural GICD registers, +which Hyper-V emulates, so no hypercall is necessary as with +x86. Hyper-V does not support using LPIs for vPCI devices in +arm64 guest VMs because it does not emulate a GICv3 ITS. + +The Hyper-V virtual PCI driver in Linux supports vPCI devices +whose drivers create managed or unmanaged Linux IRQs. If the +smp_affinity for an unmanaged IRQ is updated via the /proc/irq +interface, the Hyper-V virtual PCI driver is called to tell +the Hyper-V host to change the interrupt targeting and +everything works properly. However, on x86 if the x86_vector +IRQ domain needs to reassign an interrupt vector due to +running out of vectors on a CPU, there's no path to inform the +Hyper-V host of the change, and things break. Fortunately, +guest VMs operate in a constrained device environment where +using all the vectors on a CPU doesn't happen. Since such a +problem is only a theoretical concern rather than a practical +concern, it has been left unaddressed. + +DMA +--- +By default, Hyper-V pins all guest VM memory in the host +when the VM is created, and programs the physical IOMMU to +allow the VM to have DMA access to all its memory. Hence +it is safe to assign PCI devices to the VM, and allow the +guest operating system to program the DMA transfers. The +physical IOMMU prevents a malicious guest from initiating +DMA to memory belonging to the host or to other VMs on the +host. From the Linux guest standpoint, such DMA transfers +are in "direct" mode since Hyper-V does not provide a virtual +IOMMU in the guest. + +Hyper-V assumes that physical PCI devices always perform +cache-coherent DMA. When running on x86, this behavior is +required by the architecture. When running on arm64, the +architecture allows for both cache-coherent and +non-cache-coherent devices, with the behavior of each device +specified in the ACPI DSDT. But when a PCI device is assigned +to a guest VM, that device does not appear in the DSDT, so the +Hyper-V VMBus driver propagates cache-coherency information +from the VMBus node in the ACPI DSDT to all VMBus devices, +including vPCI devices (since they have a dual identity as a VMBus +device and as a PCI device). See vmbus_dma_configure(). +Current Hyper-V versions always indicate that the VMBus is +cache coherent, so vPCI devices on arm64 always get marked as +cache coherent and the CPU does not perform any sync +operations as part of dma_map/unmap_*() calls. + +vPCI protocol versions +---------------------- +As previously described, during vPCI device setup and teardown +messages are passed over a VMBus channel between the Hyper-V +host and the Hyper-v vPCI driver in the Linux guest. Some +messages have been revised in newer versions of Hyper-V, so +the guest and host must agree on the vPCI protocol version to +be used. The version is negotiated when communication over +the VMBus channel is first established. See +hv_pci_protocol_negotiation(). Newer versions of the protocol +extend support to VMs with more than 64 vCPUs, and provide +additional information about the vPCI device, such as the +guest virtual NUMA node to which it is most closely affined in +the underlying hardware. + +Guest NUMA node affinity +------------------------ +When the vPCI protocol version provides it, the guest NUMA +node affinity of the vPCI device is stored as part of the Linux +device information for subsequent use by the Linux driver. See +hv_pci_assign_numa_node(). If the negotiated protocol version +does not support the host providing NUMA affinity information, +the Linux guest defaults the device NUMA node to 0. But even +when the negotiated protocol version includes NUMA affinity +information, the ability of the host to provide such +information depends on certain host configuration options. If +the guest receives NUMA node value "0", it could mean NUMA +node 0, or it could mean "no information is available". +Unfortunately it is not possible to distinguish the two cases +from the guest side. + +PCI config space access in a CoCo VM +------------------------------------ +Linux PCI device drivers access PCI config space using a +standard set of functions provided by the Linux PCI subsystem. +In Hyper-V guests these standard functions map to functions +hv_pcifront_read_config() and hv_pcifront_write_config() +in the Hyper-V virtual PCI driver. In normal VMs, +these hv_pcifront_*() functions directly access the PCI config +space, and the accesses trap to Hyper-V to be handled. +But in CoCo VMs, memory encryption prevents Hyper-V +from reading the guest instruction stream to emulate the +access, so the hv_pcifront_*() functions must invoke +hypercalls with explicit arguments describing the access to be +made. + +Config Block back-channel +------------------------- +The Hyper-V host and Hyper-V virtual PCI driver in Linux +together implement a non-standard back-channel communication +path between the host and guest. The back-channel path uses +messages sent over the VMBus channel associated with the vPCI +device. The functions hyperv_read_cfg_blk() and +hyperv_write_cfg_blk() are the primary interfaces provided to +other parts of the Linux kernel. As of this writing, these +interfaces are used only by the Mellanox mlx5 driver to pass +diagnostic data to a Hyper-V host running in the Azure public +cloud. The functions hyperv_read_cfg_blk() and +hyperv_write_cfg_blk() are implemented in a separate module +(pci-hyperv-intf.c, under CONFIG_PCI_HYPERV_INTERFACE) that +effectively stubs them out when running in non-Hyper-V +environments. diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst index 7025b3751027..09c7e585ff58 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst @@ -147,10 +147,29 @@ described as 'basic' will be available. The new VM has no virtual cpus and no memory. You probably want to use 0 as machine type. +X86: +^^^^ + +Supported X86 VM types can be queried via KVM_CAP_VM_TYPES. + +S390: +^^^^^ + In order to create user controlled virtual machines on S390, check KVM_CAP_S390_UCONTROL and use the flag KVM_VM_S390_UCONTROL as privileged user (CAP_SYS_ADMIN). +MIPS: +^^^^^ + +To use hardware assisted virtualization on MIPS (VZ ASE) rather than +the default trap & emulate implementation (which changes the virtual +memory layout to fit in user mode), check KVM_CAP_MIPS_VZ and use the +flag KVM_VM_MIPS_VZ. + +ARM64: +^^^^^^ + On arm64, the physical address size for a VM (IPA Size limit) is limited to 40bits by default. The limit can be configured if the host supports the extension KVM_CAP_ARM_VM_IPA_SIZE. When supported, use @@ -608,18 +627,6 @@ interrupt number dequeues the interrupt. This is an asynchronous vcpu ioctl and can be invoked from any thread. -4.17 KVM_DEBUG_GUEST --------------------- - -:Capability: basic -:Architectures: none -:Type: vcpu ioctl -:Parameters: none) -:Returns: -1 on error - -Support for this has been removed. Use KVM_SET_GUEST_DEBUG instead. - - 4.18 KVM_GET_MSRS ----------------- @@ -6192,6 +6199,130 @@ to know what fields can be changed for the system register described by ``op0, op1, crn, crm, op2``. KVM rejects ID register values that describe a superset of the features supported by the system. +4.140 KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION2 +--------------------------------- + +:Capability: KVM_CAP_USER_MEMORY2 +:Architectures: all +:Type: vm ioctl +:Parameters: struct kvm_userspace_memory_region2 (in) +:Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error + +KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION2 is an extension to KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION that +allows mapping guest_memfd memory into a guest. All fields shared with +KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION identically. Userspace can set KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD +in flags to have KVM bind the memory region to a given guest_memfd range of +[guest_memfd_offset, guest_memfd_offset + memory_size]. The target guest_memfd +must point at a file created via KVM_CREATE_GUEST_MEMFD on the current VM, and +the target range must not be bound to any other memory region. All standard +bounds checks apply (use common sense). + +:: + + struct kvm_userspace_memory_region2 { + __u32 slot; + __u32 flags; + __u64 guest_phys_addr; + __u64 memory_size; /* bytes */ + __u64 userspace_addr; /* start of the userspace allocated memory */ + __u64 guest_memfd_offset; + __u32 guest_memfd; + __u32 pad1; + __u64 pad2[14]; + }; + +A KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD region _must_ have a valid guest_memfd (private memory) and +userspace_addr (shared memory). However, "valid" for userspace_addr simply +means that the address itself must be a legal userspace address. The backing +mapping for userspace_addr is not required to be valid/populated at the time of +KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION2, e.g. shared memory can be lazily mapped/allocated +on-demand. + +When mapping a gfn into the guest, KVM selects shared vs. private, i.e consumes +userspace_addr vs. guest_memfd, based on the gfn's KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE +state. At VM creation time, all memory is shared, i.e. the PRIVATE attribute +is '0' for all gfns. Userspace can control whether memory is shared/private by +toggling KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE via KVM_SET_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES as needed. + +4.141 KVM_SET_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES +------------------------------- + +:Capability: KVM_CAP_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES +:Architectures: x86 +:Type: vm ioctl +:Parameters: struct kvm_memory_attributes (in) +:Returns: 0 on success, <0 on error + +KVM_SET_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES allows userspace to set memory attributes for a range +of guest physical memory. + +:: + + struct kvm_memory_attributes { + __u64 address; + __u64 size; + __u64 attributes; + __u64 flags; + }; + + #define KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE (1ULL << 3) + +The address and size must be page aligned. The supported attributes can be +retrieved via ioctl(KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION) on KVM_CAP_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES. If +executed on a VM, KVM_CAP_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES precisely returns the attributes +supported by that VM. If executed at system scope, KVM_CAP_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES +returns all attributes supported by KVM. The only attribute defined at this +time is KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE, which marks the associated gfn as being +guest private memory. + +Note, there is no "get" API. Userspace is responsible for explicitly tracking +the state of a gfn/page as needed. + +The "flags" field is reserved for future extensions and must be '0'. + +4.142 KVM_CREATE_GUEST_MEMFD +---------------------------- + +:Capability: KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD +:Architectures: none +:Type: vm ioctl +:Parameters: struct kvm_create_guest_memfd(in) +:Returns: 0 on success, <0 on error + +KVM_CREATE_GUEST_MEMFD creates an anonymous file and returns a file descriptor +that refers to it. guest_memfd files are roughly analogous to files created +via memfd_create(), e.g. guest_memfd files live in RAM, have volatile storage, +and are automatically released when the last reference is dropped. Unlike +"regular" memfd_create() files, guest_memfd files are bound to their owning +virtual machine (see below), cannot be mapped, read, or written by userspace, +and cannot be resized (guest_memfd files do however support PUNCH_HOLE). + +:: + + struct kvm_create_guest_memfd { + __u64 size; + __u64 flags; + __u64 reserved[6]; + }; + +Conceptually, the inode backing a guest_memfd file represents physical memory, +i.e. is coupled to the virtual machine as a thing, not to a "struct kvm". The +file itself, which is bound to a "struct kvm", is that instance's view of the +underlying memory, e.g. effectively provides the translation of guest addresses +to host memory. This allows for use cases where multiple KVM structures are +used to manage a single virtual machine, e.g. when performing intrahost +migration of a virtual machine. + +KVM currently only supports mapping guest_memfd via KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION2, +and more specifically via the guest_memfd and guest_memfd_offset fields in +"struct kvm_userspace_memory_region2", where guest_memfd_offset is the offset +into the guest_memfd instance. For a given guest_memfd file, there can be at +most one mapping per page, i.e. binding multiple memory regions to a single +guest_memfd range is not allowed (any number of memory regions can be bound to +a single guest_memfd file, but the bound ranges must not overlap). + +See KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION2 for additional details. + 5. The kvm_run structure ======================== @@ -6826,6 +6957,30 @@ spec refer, https://github.com/riscv/riscv-sbi-doc. :: + /* KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT */ + struct { + #define KVM_MEMORY_EXIT_FLAG_PRIVATE (1ULL << 3) + __u64 flags; + __u64 gpa; + __u64 size; + } memory_fault; + +KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT indicates the vCPU has encountered a memory fault that +could not be resolved by KVM. The 'gpa' and 'size' (in bytes) describe the +guest physical address range [gpa, gpa + size) of the fault. The 'flags' field +describes properties of the faulting access that are likely pertinent: + + - KVM_MEMORY_EXIT_FLAG_PRIVATE - When set, indicates the memory fault occurred + on a private memory access. When clear, indicates the fault occurred on a + shared access. + +Note! KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT is unique among all KVM exit reasons in that it +accompanies a return code of '-1', not '0'! errno will always be set to EFAULT +or EHWPOISON when KVM exits with KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT, userspace should assume +kvm_run.exit_reason is stale/undefined for all other error numbers. + +:: + /* KVM_EXIT_NOTIFY */ struct { #define KVM_NOTIFY_CONTEXT_INVALID (1 << 0) @@ -7858,6 +8013,27 @@ This capability is aimed to mitigate the threat that malicious VMs can cause CPU stuck (due to event windows don't open up) and make the CPU unavailable to host or other VMs. +7.34 KVM_CAP_MEMORY_FAULT_INFO +------------------------------ + +:Architectures: x86 +:Returns: Informational only, -EINVAL on direct KVM_ENABLE_CAP. + +The presence of this capability indicates that KVM_RUN will fill +kvm_run.memory_fault if KVM cannot resolve a guest page fault VM-Exit, e.g. if +there is a valid memslot but no backing VMA for the corresponding host virtual +address. + +The information in kvm_run.memory_fault is valid if and only if KVM_RUN returns +an error with errno=EFAULT or errno=EHWPOISON *and* kvm_run.exit_reason is set +to KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT. + +Note: Userspaces which attempt to resolve memory faults so that they can retry +KVM_RUN are encouraged to guard against repeatedly receiving the same +error/annotated fault. + +See KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT for more information. + 8. Other capabilities. ====================== @@ -8374,6 +8550,7 @@ PVHVM guests. Valid flags are:: #define KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG_EVTCHN_2LEVEL (1 << 4) #define KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG_EVTCHN_SEND (1 << 5) #define KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG_RUNSTATE_UPDATE_FLAG (1 << 6) + #define KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG_PVCLOCK_TSC_UNSTABLE (1 << 7) 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. @@ -8417,6 +8594,11 @@ behave more correctly, not using the XEN_RUNSTATE_UPDATE flag until/unless specifically enabled (by the guest making the hypercall, causing the VMM to enable the KVM_XEN_ATTR_TYPE_RUNSTATE_UPDATE_FLAG attribute). +The KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG_PVCLOCK_TSC_UNSTABLE flag indicates that KVM supports +clearing the PVCLOCK_TSC_STABLE_BIT flag in Xen pvclock sources. This will be +done when the KVM_CAP_XEN_HVM ioctl sets the +KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG_PVCLOCK_TSC_UNSTABLE flag. + 8.31 KVM_CAP_PPC_MULTITCE ------------------------- @@ -8596,6 +8778,24 @@ block sizes is exposed in KVM_CAP_ARM_SUPPORTED_BLOCK_SIZES as a 64-bit bitmap (each bit describing a block size). The default value is 0, to disable the eager page splitting. +8.41 KVM_CAP_VM_TYPES +--------------------- + +:Capability: KVM_CAP_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES +:Architectures: x86 +:Type: system ioctl + +This capability returns a bitmap of support VM types. The 1-setting of bit @n +means the VM type with value @n is supported. Possible values of @n are:: + + #define KVM_X86_DEFAULT_VM 0 + #define KVM_X86_SW_PROTECTED_VM 1 + +Note, KVM_X86_SW_PROTECTED_VM is currently only for development and testing. +Do not use KVM_X86_SW_PROTECTED_VM for "real" VMs, and especially not in +production. The behavior and effective ABI for software-protected VMs is +unstable. + 9. Known KVM API problems ========================= diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst index 3a034db5e55f..02880d5552d5 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst @@ -43,10 +43,9 @@ On x86: - vcpu->mutex is taken outside kvm->arch.hyperv.hv_lock and kvm->arch.xen.xen_lock -- kvm->arch.mmu_lock is an rwlock. kvm->arch.tdp_mmu_pages_lock and - kvm->arch.mmu_unsync_pages_lock are taken inside kvm->arch.mmu_lock, and - cannot be taken without already holding kvm->arch.mmu_lock (typically with - ``read_lock`` for the TDP MMU, thus the need for additional spinlocks). +- kvm->arch.mmu_lock is an rwlock; critical sections for + kvm->arch.tdp_mmu_pages_lock and kvm->arch.mmu_unsync_pages_lock must + also take kvm->arch.mmu_lock Everything else is a leaf: no other lock is taken inside the critical sections. |