提交 5a0af480 编写于 作者: M Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交者: Paolo Bonzini

docs: kvm: Convert hypercalls.txt to ReST format

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Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Linux KVM Hypercall:
.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
===================
Linux KVM Hypercall
===================
X86:
KVM Hypercalls have a three-byte sequence of either the vmcall or the vmmcall
instruction. The hypervisor can replace it with instructions that are
......@@ -20,7 +24,7 @@ S390:
For further information on the S390 diagnose call as supported by KVM,
refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/s390-diag.txt.
PowerPC:
PowerPC:
It uses R3-R10 and hypercall number in R11. R4-R11 are used as output registers.
Return value is placed in R3.
......@@ -34,7 +38,8 @@ MIPS:
the return value is placed in $2 (v0).
KVM Hypercalls Documentation
===========================
============================
The template for each hypercall is:
1. Hypercall name.
2. Architecture(s)
......@@ -43,56 +48,64 @@ The template for each hypercall is:
1. KVM_HC_VAPIC_POLL_IRQ
------------------------
Architecture: x86
Status: active
Purpose: Trigger guest exit so that the host can check for pending
interrupts on reentry.
:Architecture: x86
:Status: active
:Purpose: Trigger guest exit so that the host can check for pending
interrupts on reentry.
2. KVM_HC_MMU_OP
------------------------
Architecture: x86
Status: deprecated.
Purpose: Support MMU operations such as writing to PTE,
flushing TLB, release PT.
----------------
:Architecture: x86
:Status: deprecated.
:Purpose: Support MMU operations such as writing to PTE,
flushing TLB, release PT.
3. KVM_HC_FEATURES
------------------------
Architecture: PPC
Status: active
Purpose: Expose hypercall availability to the guest. On x86 platforms, cpuid
used to enumerate which hypercalls are available. On PPC, either device tree
based lookup ( which is also what EPAPR dictates) OR KVM specific enumeration
mechanism (which is this hypercall) can be used.
------------------
:Architecture: PPC
:Status: active
:Purpose: Expose hypercall availability to the guest. On x86 platforms, cpuid
used to enumerate which hypercalls are available. On PPC, either
device tree based lookup ( which is also what EPAPR dictates)
OR KVM specific enumeration mechanism (which is this hypercall)
can be used.
4. KVM_HC_PPC_MAP_MAGIC_PAGE
------------------------
Architecture: PPC
Status: active
Purpose: To enable communication between the hypervisor and guest there is a
shared page that contains parts of supervisor visible register state.
The guest can map this shared page to access its supervisor register through
memory using this hypercall.
----------------------------
:Architecture: PPC
:Status: active
:Purpose: To enable communication between the hypervisor and guest there is a
shared page that contains parts of supervisor visible register state.
The guest can map this shared page to access its supervisor register
through memory using this hypercall.
5. KVM_HC_KICK_CPU
------------------------
Architecture: x86
Status: active
Purpose: Hypercall used to wakeup a vcpu from HLT state
Usage example : A vcpu of a paravirtualized guest that is busywaiting in guest
kernel mode for an event to occur (ex: a spinlock to become available) can
execute HLT instruction once it has busy-waited for more than a threshold
time-interval. Execution of HLT instruction would cause the hypervisor to put
the vcpu to sleep until occurrence of an appropriate event. Another vcpu of the
same guest can wakeup the sleeping vcpu by issuing KVM_HC_KICK_CPU hypercall,
specifying APIC ID (a1) of the vcpu to be woken up. An additional argument (a0)
is used in the hypercall for future use.
------------------
:Architecture: x86
:Status: active
:Purpose: Hypercall used to wakeup a vcpu from HLT state
:Usage example:
A vcpu of a paravirtualized guest that is busywaiting in guest
kernel mode for an event to occur (ex: a spinlock to become available) can
execute HLT instruction once it has busy-waited for more than a threshold
time-interval. Execution of HLT instruction would cause the hypervisor to put
the vcpu to sleep until occurrence of an appropriate event. Another vcpu of the
same guest can wakeup the sleeping vcpu by issuing KVM_HC_KICK_CPU hypercall,
specifying APIC ID (a1) of the vcpu to be woken up. An additional argument (a0)
is used in the hypercall for future use.
6. KVM_HC_CLOCK_PAIRING
------------------------
Architecture: x86
Status: active
Purpose: Hypercall used to synchronize host and guest clocks.
-----------------------
:Architecture: x86
:Status: active
:Purpose: Hypercall used to synchronize host and guest clocks.
Usage:
a0: guest physical address where host copies
......@@ -101,6 +114,8 @@ a0: guest physical address where host copies
a1: clock_type, ATM only KVM_CLOCK_PAIRING_WALLCLOCK (0)
is supported (corresponding to the host's CLOCK_REALTIME clock).
::
struct kvm_clock_pairing {
__s64 sec;
__s64 nsec;
......@@ -123,15 +138,16 @@ Returns KVM_EOPNOTSUPP if the host does not use TSC clocksource,
or if clock type is different than KVM_CLOCK_PAIRING_WALLCLOCK.
6. KVM_HC_SEND_IPI
------------------------
Architecture: x86
Status: active
Purpose: Send IPIs to multiple vCPUs.
------------------
:Architecture: x86
:Status: active
:Purpose: Send IPIs to multiple vCPUs.
a0: lower part of the bitmap of destination APIC IDs
a1: higher part of the bitmap of destination APIC IDs
a2: the lowest APIC ID in bitmap
a3: APIC ICR
- a0: lower part of the bitmap of destination APIC IDs
- a1: higher part of the bitmap of destination APIC IDs
- a2: the lowest APIC ID in bitmap
- a3: APIC ICR
The hypercall lets a guest send multicast IPIs, with at most 128
128 destinations per hypercall in 64-bit mode and 64 vCPUs per
......@@ -143,12 +159,13 @@ corresponds to the APIC ID a2+1, and so on.
Returns the number of CPUs to which the IPIs were delivered successfully.
7. KVM_HC_SCHED_YIELD
------------------------
Architecture: x86
Status: active
Purpose: Hypercall used to yield if the IPI target vCPU is preempted
---------------------
:Architecture: x86
:Status: active
:Purpose: Hypercall used to yield if the IPI target vCPU is preempted
a0: destination APIC ID
Usage example: When sending a call-function IPI-many to vCPUs, yield if
any of the IPI target vCPUs was preempted.
:Usage example: When sending a call-function IPI-many to vCPUs, yield if
any of the IPI target vCPUs was preempted.
......@@ -11,8 +11,10 @@ KVM
amd-memory-encryption
cpuid
halt-polling
hypercalls
msr
vcpu-requests
arm/index
devices/index
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