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| author | Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> | 2012-12-09 18:44:10 -0200 |
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| committer | Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> | 2012-12-09 18:44:10 -0200 |
| commit | d2ff4fc557a4c5248b2d99b0d48e47a246d994b2 (patch) | |
| tree | dcb1af3d5cbb0aa9279baeb4d4760ef43d78b5e6 /Documentation | |
| parent | 8f536b7697a0d40ef6b5fd04cf2c04953d5ca06f (diff) | |
| parent | 352df1deb2e3c40e65ff94c8d7c62d9144446b1c (diff) | |
Merge branch 'for-upstream' of https://github.com/agraf/linux-2.6 into queue
* 'for-upstream' of https://github.com/agraf/linux-2.6: (28 commits)
KVM: PPC: booke: Get/set guest EPCR register using ONE_REG interface
KVM: PPC: bookehv: Add EPCR support in mtspr/mfspr emulation
KVM: PPC: bookehv: Add guest computation mode for irq delivery
KVM: PPC: Make EPCR a valid field for booke64 and bookehv
KVM: PPC: booke: Extend MAS2 EPN mask for 64-bit
KVM: PPC: e500: Mask MAS2 EPN high 32-bits in 32/64 tlbwe emulation
KVM: PPC: Mask ea's high 32-bits in 32/64 instr emulation
KVM: PPC: e500: Add emulation helper for getting instruction ea
KVM: PPC: bookehv64: Add support for interrupt handling
KVM: PPC: bookehv: Remove GET_VCPU macro from exception handler
KVM: PPC: booke: Fix get_tb() compile error on 64-bit
KVM: PPC: e500: Silence bogus GCC warning in tlb code
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Handle guest-caused machine checks on POWER7 without panicking
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Improve handling of local vs. global TLB invalidations
MAINTAINERS: Add git tree link for PPC KVM
KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: MSR_DE doesn't exist on Book 3S
KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Fix VSX handling
KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Emulate PURR, SPURR and DSCR registers
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Don't give the guest RW access to RO pages
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Report correct HPT entry index when reading HPT
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 55 |
1 files changed, 55 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt index 6671fdc0afb1..a4df5535996b 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt @@ -1773,6 +1773,7 @@ registers, find a list below: PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_VPA_ADDR | 64 PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_VPA_SLB | 128 PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_VPA_DTL | 128 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_EPCR | 32 4.69 KVM_GET_ONE_REG @@ -2071,6 +2072,60 @@ KVM_S390_INT_EXTERNAL_CALL (vcpu) - sigp external call; source cpu in parm Note that the vcpu ioctl is asynchronous to vcpu execution. +4.78 KVM_PPC_GET_HTAB_FD + +Capability: KVM_CAP_PPC_HTAB_FD +Architectures: powerpc +Type: vm ioctl +Parameters: Pointer to struct kvm_get_htab_fd (in) +Returns: file descriptor number (>= 0) on success, -1 on error + +This returns a file descriptor that can be used either to read out the +entries in the guest's hashed page table (HPT), or to write entries to +initialize the HPT. The returned fd can only be written to if the +KVM_GET_HTAB_WRITE bit is set in the flags field of the argument, and +can only be read if that bit is clear. The argument struct looks like +this: + +/* For KVM_PPC_GET_HTAB_FD */ +struct kvm_get_htab_fd { + __u64 flags; + __u64 start_index; + __u64 reserved[2]; +}; + +/* Values for kvm_get_htab_fd.flags */ +#define KVM_GET_HTAB_BOLTED_ONLY ((__u64)0x1) +#define KVM_GET_HTAB_WRITE ((__u64)0x2) + +The `start_index' field gives the index in the HPT of the entry at +which to start reading. It is ignored when writing. + +Reads on the fd will initially supply information about all +"interesting" HPT entries. Interesting entries are those with the +bolted bit set, if the KVM_GET_HTAB_BOLTED_ONLY bit is set, otherwise +all entries. When the end of the HPT is reached, the read() will +return. If read() is called again on the fd, it will start again from +the beginning of the HPT, but will only return HPT entries that have +changed since they were last read. + +Data read or written is structured as a header (8 bytes) followed by a +series of valid HPT entries (16 bytes) each. The header indicates how +many valid HPT entries there are and how many invalid entries follow +the valid entries. The invalid entries are not represented explicitly +in the stream. The header format is: + +struct kvm_get_htab_header { + __u32 index; + __u16 n_valid; + __u16 n_invalid; +}; + +Writes to the fd create HPT entries starting at the index given in the +header; first `n_valid' valid entries with contents from the data +written, then `n_invalid' invalid entries, invalidating any previously +valid entries found. + 5. The kvm_run structure ------------------------ |
