Re: [PATCH] Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls
On 08/01/2012 11:55 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 04:19:01PM +0530, Raghavendra K T wrote: On 08/01/2012 08:37 AM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 02:23:59PM +0530, Raghavendra K T wrote: From: Raghavendra K Traghavendra...@linux.vnet.ibm.com Thanks Alex for KVM_HC_FEATURES inputs and Jan for VAPIC_POLL_IRQ, and Peter (HPA) for suggesting hypercall ABI addition. Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K Traghavendra...@linux.vnet.ibm.com --- [...] + + Up to four arguments may be passed in rbx, rcx, rdx, and rsi respectively. + The hypercall number should be placed in rax and the return value will be + placed in rax. No other registers will be clobbered unless explicitly stated + by the particular hypercall. It depends on the hypercall. It happens that current hypercalls use the four registers, but its not an ABI (hyper-v hypercalls uses r8, for example). Okay, agree. I did not know about hyper-v. Above one is for X86 and KVM (and not X86 / hyper-v). So I should remove ABI and probably say, Just say Linux x86 Hypercall, yeah. Ok, Thanks Marcelo.will respin patches with the changes you suggested. Also I would like add Alex's description on ppc hypercalls into Documentation/virtual/kvm/ppc-pv.txt with Alex from/sob or suggested-by in a separate patch unless I see any objection to that. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [PATCH] Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls
On 02.08.2012, at 09:08, Raghavendra K T raghavendra...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: On 08/01/2012 11:55 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 04:19:01PM +0530, Raghavendra K T wrote: On 08/01/2012 08:37 AM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 02:23:59PM +0530, Raghavendra K T wrote: From: Raghavendra K Traghavendra...@linux.vnet.ibm.com Thanks Alex for KVM_HC_FEATURES inputs and Jan for VAPIC_POLL_IRQ, and Peter (HPA) for suggesting hypercall ABI addition. Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K Traghavendra...@linux.vnet.ibm.com --- [...] + + Up to four arguments may be passed in rbx, rcx, rdx, and rsi respectively. + The hypercall number should be placed in rax and the return value will be + placed in rax. No other registers will be clobbered unless explicitly stated + by the particular hypercall. It depends on the hypercall. It happens that current hypercalls use the four registers, but its not an ABI (hyper-v hypercalls uses r8, for example). Okay, agree. I did not know about hyper-v. Above one is for X86 and KVM (and not X86 / hyper-v). So I should remove ABI and probably say, Just say Linux x86 Hypercall, yeah. Ok, Thanks Marcelo.will respin patches with the changes you suggested. Also I would like add Alex's description on ppc hypercalls into Documentation/virtual/kvm/ppc-pv.txt with Alex from/sob or suggested-by in a separate patch unless I see any objection to that. Yeah, don't stall this on me :) Alex-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [PATCH] Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls
On 08/01/2012 08:37 AM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 02:23:59PM +0530, Raghavendra K T wrote: From: Raghavendra K Traghavendra...@linux.vnet.ibm.com Thanks Alex for KVM_HC_FEATURES inputs and Jan for VAPIC_POLL_IRQ, and Peter (HPA) for suggesting hypercall ABI addition. Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K Traghavendra...@linux.vnet.ibm.com --- Please have a closer look at Hypercall ABI newly added Changes since last post: - Added hypercall ABI (Peter) - made KVM_HC_VAPIC_POLL_IRQ active explicitly (Randy) TODO: We need to add history details of each hypercall as suggested by HPA, which I could not trace easily. Hope it is easy for hypercall authors Documentation/virtual/hypercalls.txt | 71 ++ 1 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/virtual/hypercalls.txt diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/hypercalls.txt b/Documentation/virtual/hypercalls.txt new file mode 100644 index 000..caffc08 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/virtual/hypercalls.txt @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +Hypercall ABI: += +A brief look at calling conventions of X86, S390 and PPC +X86: + KVM Hypercalls have a three-byte sequence of either the vmrun or the vmmrun + instruction. The hypervisor can replace it with instructions that are + guaranteed to be supported. vmcall. How is this: KVM Hypercalls have a three-byte sequence of vmcall instruction. But The hypervisor can replace it with the instructions that are guaranteed to be supported. (Related question: Is it not that vmcall instruction is patched by 0f 01 09 vmmcall instruction sequence for amd?. So I think we need to change documentation I referred from arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h. It should be vmcall / vmmcall instead of vmrun and vmmrun) + + Up to four arguments may be passed in rbx, rcx, rdx, and rsi respectively. + The hypercall number should be placed in rax and the return value will be + placed in rax. No other registers will be clobbered unless explicitly stated + by the particular hypercall. It depends on the hypercall. It happens that current hypercalls use the four registers, but its not an ABI (hyper-v hypercalls uses r8, for example). Okay, agree. I did not know about hyper-v. Above one is for X86 and KVM (and not X86 / hyper-v). So I should remove ABI and probably say, KVM x86 Hypercall == Up to four arguments may be passed in rbx, rcx, rdx, and rsi respectively. The hypercall number should be placed in rax and the return value will be placed in rax. No other registers will be clobbered unless explicitly stated by the particular hypercall. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [PATCH] Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 04:19:01PM +0530, Raghavendra K T wrote: On 08/01/2012 08:37 AM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 02:23:59PM +0530, Raghavendra K T wrote: From: Raghavendra K Traghavendra...@linux.vnet.ibm.com Thanks Alex for KVM_HC_FEATURES inputs and Jan for VAPIC_POLL_IRQ, and Peter (HPA) for suggesting hypercall ABI addition. Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K Traghavendra...@linux.vnet.ibm.com --- Please have a closer look at Hypercall ABI newly added Changes since last post: - Added hypercall ABI (Peter) - made KVM_HC_VAPIC_POLL_IRQ active explicitly (Randy) TODO: We need to add history details of each hypercall as suggested by HPA, which I could not trace easily. Hope it is easy for hypercall authors Documentation/virtual/hypercalls.txt | 71 ++ 1 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/virtual/hypercalls.txt diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/hypercalls.txt b/Documentation/virtual/hypercalls.txt new file mode 100644 index 000..caffc08 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/virtual/hypercalls.txt @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +Hypercall ABI: += +A brief look at calling conventions of X86, S390 and PPC +X86: + KVM Hypercalls have a three-byte sequence of either the vmrun or the vmmrun + instruction. The hypervisor can replace it with instructions that are + guaranteed to be supported. vmcall. How is this: KVM Hypercalls have a three-byte sequence of vmcall instruction. But The hypervisor can replace it with the instructions that are guaranteed to be supported. (Related question: Is it not that vmcall instruction is patched by 0f 01 09 vmmcall instruction sequence for amd?. Yes, it is. Linux guest binary contains the Intel vmcall instruction, which is patched on AMD to vmmcall. So I think we need to change documentation I referred from arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h. It should be vmcall / vmmcall instead of vmrun and vmmrun) Yes. + + Up to four arguments may be passed in rbx, rcx, rdx, and rsi respectively. + The hypercall number should be placed in rax and the return value will be + placed in rax. No other registers will be clobbered unless explicitly stated + by the particular hypercall. It depends on the hypercall. It happens that current hypercalls use the four registers, but its not an ABI (hyper-v hypercalls uses r8, for example). Okay, agree. I did not know about hyper-v. Above one is for X86 and KVM (and not X86 / hyper-v). So I should remove ABI and probably say, Just say Linux x86 Hypercall, yeah. KVM x86 Hypercall == Up to four arguments may be passed in rbx, rcx, rdx, and rsi respectively. The hypercall number should be placed in rax and the return value will be placed in rax. No other registers will be clobbered unless explicitly stated by the particular hypercall. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [PATCH] Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 02:23:59PM +0530, Raghavendra K T wrote: From: Raghavendra K T raghavendra...@linux.vnet.ibm.com Thanks Alex for KVM_HC_FEATURES inputs and Jan for VAPIC_POLL_IRQ, and Peter (HPA) for suggesting hypercall ABI addition. Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T raghavendra...@linux.vnet.ibm.com --- Please have a closer look at Hypercall ABI newly added Changes since last post: - Added hypercall ABI (Peter) - made KVM_HC_VAPIC_POLL_IRQ active explicitly (Randy) TODO: We need to add history details of each hypercall as suggested by HPA, which I could not trace easily. Hope it is easy for hypercall authors Documentation/virtual/hypercalls.txt | 71 ++ 1 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/virtual/hypercalls.txt diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/hypercalls.txt b/Documentation/virtual/hypercalls.txt new file mode 100644 index 000..caffc08 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/virtual/hypercalls.txt @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +Hypercall ABI: += +A brief look at calling conventions of X86, S390 and PPC +X86: + KVM Hypercalls have a three-byte sequence of either the vmrun or the vmmrun + instruction. The hypervisor can replace it with instructions that are + guaranteed to be supported. vmcall. + + Up to four arguments may be passed in rbx, rcx, rdx, and rsi respectively. + The hypercall number should be placed in rax and the return value will be + placed in rax. No other registers will be clobbered unless explicitly stated + by the particular hypercall. It depends on the hypercall. It happens that current hypercalls use the four registers, but its not an ABI (hyper-v hypercalls uses r8, for example). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [PATCH] Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls
On 07/24/2012 10:53 AM, Raghavendra K T wrote: From: Raghavendra K T raghavendra...@linux.vnet.ibm.com Thanks Alex for KVM_HC_FEATURES inputs and Jan for VAPIC_POLL_IRQ, and Peter (HPA) for suggesting hypercall ABI addition. Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T raghavendra...@linux.vnet.ibm.com --- Please have a closer look at Hypercall ABI newly added Changes since last post: - Added hypercall ABI (Peter) - made KVM_HC_VAPIC_POLL_IRQ active explicitly (Randy) TODO: We need to add history details of each hypercall as suggested by HPA, which I could not trace easily. Hope it is easy for hypercall authors Documentation/virtual/hypercalls.txt | 71 ++ 1 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/virtual/hypercalls.txt diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/hypercalls.txt b/Documentation/virtual/hypercalls.txt new file mode 100644 index 000..caffc08 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/virtual/hypercalls.txt @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +Hypercall ABI: += +A brief look at calling conventions of X86, S390 and PPC +X86: + KVM Hypercalls have a three-byte sequence of either the vmrun or the vmmrun + instruction. The hypervisor can replace it with instructions that are + guaranteed to be supported. + + Up to four arguments may be passed in rbx, rcx, rdx, and rsi respectively. + The hypercall number should be placed in rax and the return value will be + placed in rax. No other registers will be clobbered unless explicitly stated + by the particular hypercall. + +S390: + R2-R7 are used for parameters 1-6. In addition, R1 is used for hypercall + number. The return value is written to R2. + + S390 uses diagnose instruction as hypercall (0x500) along with hypercall + number in R1. + + PoewerPC: PowerPC + It uses R3-R10 and hypercall number in R11. R4-R11 are used as output registers. + Return value is placed in R3. + + KVM hypercalls uses 4 byte opcode, that are patched with 'hypercall-instructions' + property inside the device tree's /hypervisor node. + For more information refer to Documentation/virtual/kvm/ppc-pv.txt What exactly is this document supposed to cover? We have 3 different hypercall ABIs in KVM on PowerPC: 1) KVM hypercalls (ePAPR) The ePAPR compliant hypercall implementation. This one is used for KVM specific hypercalls. All hypercalls get a KVM vendor prefix (42) and then the hypercall id. We also implement generic hypercalls here, like the ePAPR idle hcall. The instruction sequence for these is listed in the device tree, as you noted above. It's available on all targets. 2) PAPR hypercalls To run server PowerPC PAPR guests (-M pseries in QEMU), we need to handle PAPR hypercalls. These are the same hypercalls that pHyp, the POWER hypervisor implements. Some of them are handled in the kernel, some are handled in user space. This is only available on book3s_64. 3) OSI hypercalls In parallel to QEMU, there is another user of KVM on PowerPC: Mac-on-Linux. That project had its own hypercalls long before we came along with KVM, so to maintain compatibility we also support their hypercalls. All of these get forwarded to user space. This is only useful on book3s_32, but can be used with book3s_64 as well. + +KVM Hypercalls Documentation +=== +The template for each hypercall is: +1. Hypercall name, value. +2. Architecture(s) +3. Status (deprecated, obsolete, active) +4. Purpose + +1. KVM_HC_VAPIC_POLL_IRQ + +Value: 1 What are the value fields supposed to mean? Alex +Architecture: x86 +Status: active +Purpose: Trigger guest exit so that the host can check for pending +interrupts on reentry. + +2. KVM_HC_MMU_OP + +Value: 2 +Architecture: x86 +Status: deprecated. +Purpose: Support MMU operations such as writing to PTE, +flushing TLB, release PT. + +3. KVM_HC_FEATURES + +Value: 3 +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 + +Value: 4 +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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [PATCH] Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls
On 07/24/2012 05:43 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: On 07/24/2012 10:53 AM, Raghavendra K T wrote: From: Raghavendra K T raghavendra...@linux.vnet.ibm.com Thanks Alex for KVM_HC_FEATURES inputs and Jan for VAPIC_POLL_IRQ, and Peter (HPA) for suggesting hypercall ABI addition. Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T raghavendra...@linux.vnet.ibm.com --- Please have a closer look at Hypercall ABI newly added Changes since last post: - Added hypercall ABI (Peter) - made KVM_HC_VAPIC_POLL_IRQ active explicitly (Randy) TODO: We need to add history details of each hypercall as suggested by HPA, which I could not trace easily. Hope it is easy for hypercall authors Documentation/virtual/hypercalls.txt | 71 ++ 1 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/virtual/hypercalls.txt diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/hypercalls.txt b/Documentation/virtual/hypercalls.txt new file mode 100644 index 000..caffc08 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/virtual/hypercalls.txt @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +Hypercall ABI: += +A brief look at calling conventions of X86, S390 and PPC +X86: + KVM Hypercalls have a three-byte sequence of either the vmrun or the vmmrun + instruction. The hypervisor can replace it with instructions that are + guaranteed to be supported. + + Up to four arguments may be passed in rbx, rcx, rdx, and rsi respectively. + The hypercall number should be placed in rax and the return value will be + placed in rax. No other registers will be clobbered unless explicitly stated + by the particular hypercall. + +S390: + R2-R7 are used for parameters 1-6. In addition, R1 is used for hypercall + number. The return value is written to R2. + + S390 uses diagnose instruction as hypercall (0x500) along with hypercall + number in R1. + + PoewerPC: PowerPC Sorry for the typo. + It uses R3-R10 and hypercall number in R11. R4-R11 are used as output registers. + Return value is placed in R3. + + KVM hypercalls uses 4 byte opcode, that are patched with 'hypercall-instructions' + property inside the device tree's /hypervisor node. + For more information refer to Documentation/virtual/kvm/ppc-pv.txt What exactly is this document supposed to cover? We have 3 different hypercall ABIs in KVM on PowerPC: Thanks for the detailed information on PPC hypercalls. My intention was to cover KVM specific hypercalls here. Patch is wrongly generated against Documentation/virtual/ instead of Documentation/virtual/kvm will correct that. Information you have provided should be very useful in understanding PPC hypercalls. Do you wish to have (2), (3) below goto some doc? 1) KVM hypercalls (ePAPR) The ePAPR compliant hypercall implementation. This one is used for KVM specific hypercalls. All hypercalls get a KVM vendor prefix (42) and then the hypercall id. We also implement generic hypercalls here, like the ePAPR idle hcall. The instruction sequence for these is listed in the device tree, as you noted above. It's available on all targets. 2) PAPR hypercalls To run server PowerPC PAPR guests (-M pseries in QEMU), we need to handle PAPR hypercalls. These are the same hypercalls that pHyp, the POWER hypervisor implements. Some of them are handled in the kernel, some are handled in user space. This is only available on book3s_64. 3) OSI hypercalls In parallel to QEMU, there is another user of KVM on PowerPC: Mac-on-Linux. That project had its own hypercalls long before we came along with KVM, so to maintain compatibility we also support their hypercalls. All of these get forwarded to user space. This is only useful on book3s_32, but can be used with book3s_64 as well. + +KVM Hypercalls Documentation +=== +The template for each hypercall is: +1. Hypercall name, value. +2. Architecture(s) +3. Status (deprecated, obsolete, active) +4. Purpose + +1. KVM_HC_VAPIC_POLL_IRQ + +Value: 1 What are the value fields supposed to mean? Value field is just #define value of the hypercall in header. If that does not make much sense probably it can be dropped. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [PATCH] Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls
On 06/04/2012 09:30 AM, Rob Landley wrote: On 05/31/2012 12:46 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: On 05/31/2012 01:01 AM, Raghavendra K T wrote: + +TODO: +1. more information on input and output needed? +2. Add more detail to purpose of hypercalls. 1. definitely, including the hypercall ABI. -hpa I was wondering about that. It looks like Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt might cover some of that already in section 5, but it doesn't look complete... Also, could I get a 00-INDEX file for this directory explaining what these individual files are? I think api.txt is supposed to be host-side API for controlling a guest VM (from userspace via ioctls, looks like), api.txt has plenty of information apart from features which are related to guest side api (generally controls / knows PV features available, that may also involve host query of guest cpuid). and capability (of) related to host. and hypercalls.txt is guest-side API for poking the host. hypercall can be used to take some actions (as needed by guest / exchange information) How someone would write host-side code that _responds_ to a hypercall, I have no idea. (It goes in the host kernel?) Rob -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [PATCH] Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls
On 05/31/2012 11:14 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote: On 05/31/2012 01:01 AM, Raghavendra K T wrote: From: Raghavendra K Traghavendra...@linux.vnet.ibm.com Thanks Alex for KVM_HC_FEATURES inputs and Jan for VAPIC_POLL_IRQ Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K Traghavendra...@linux.vnet.ibm.com --- diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt new file mode 100644 index 000..c79335a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +KVM Hypercalls Documentation +=== +The template for each hypercall is: +1. Hypercall name, value. +2. Architecture(s) +3. Status (deprecated, obsolete, active) +4. Purpose + +1. KVM_HC_VAPIC_POLL_IRQ + +Value: 1 +Architecture: x86 No Status, does that imply Active ? Oh! It was unintentionally left out. will add that. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [PATCH] Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls
On 05/31/2012 12:46 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: On 05/31/2012 01:01 AM, Raghavendra K T wrote: + +TODO: +1. more information on input and output needed? +2. Add more detail to purpose of hypercalls. 1. definitely, including the hypercall ABI. -hpa I was wondering about that. It looks like Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt might cover some of that already in section 5, but it doesn't look complete... Also, could I get a 00-INDEX file for this directory explaining what these individual files are? I think api.txt is supposed to be host-side API for controlling a guest VM (from userspace via ioctls, looks like), and hypercalls.txt is guest-side API for poking the host. How someone would write host-side code that _responds_ to a hypercall, I have no idea. (It goes in the host kernel?) Rob -- GNU/Linux isn't: Linux=GPLv2, GNU=GPLv3+, they can't share code. Either it's mere aggregation, or a license violation. Pick one. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [PATCH] Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls
On 05/31/2012 01:01 AM, Raghavendra K T wrote: From: Raghavendra K T raghavendra...@linux.vnet.ibm.com Thanks Alex for KVM_HC_FEATURES inputs and Jan for VAPIC_POLL_IRQ Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T raghavendra...@linux.vnet.ibm.com --- diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt new file mode 100644 index 000..c79335a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +KVM Hypercalls Documentation +=== +The template for each hypercall is: +1. Hypercall name, value. +2. Architecture(s) +3. Status (deprecated, obsolete, active) +4. Purpose + +1. KVM_HC_VAPIC_POLL_IRQ + +Value: 1 +Architecture: x86 No Status, does that imply Active ? +Purpose: Trigger guest exit so that the host can check for pending +interrupts on reentry. + +2. KVM_HC_MMU_OP + +Value: 2 +Architecture: x86 +Status: deprecated. +Purpose: Support MMU operations such as writing to PTE, +flushing TLB, release PT. + +3. KVM_HC_FEATURES + +Value: 3 +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 + +Value: 4 +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. + +TODO: +1. more information on input and output needed? +2. Add more detail to purpose of hypercalls. -- -- ~Randy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [PATCH] Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls
On 05/31/2012 01:01 AM, Raghavendra K T wrote: + +TODO: +1. more information on input and output needed? +2. Add more detail to purpose of hypercalls. 1. definitely, including the hypercall ABI. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [PATCH] Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls
On 2012-05-31 19:44, Randy Dunlap wrote: On 05/31/2012 01:01 AM, Raghavendra K T wrote: From: Raghavendra K T raghavendra...@linux.vnet.ibm.com Thanks Alex for KVM_HC_FEATURES inputs and Jan for VAPIC_POLL_IRQ Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T raghavendra...@linux.vnet.ibm.com --- diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt new file mode 100644 index 000..c79335a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +KVM Hypercalls Documentation +=== +The template for each hypercall is: +1. Hypercall name, value. +2. Architecture(s) +3. Status (deprecated, obsolete, active) +4. Purpose + +1. KVM_HC_VAPIC_POLL_IRQ + +Value: 1 +Architecture: x86 No Status, does that imply Active ? It should actually state that this call is in use. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [PATCH] Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls
On 05/31/2012 11:55 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote: No Status, does that imply Active ? It should actually state that this call is in use. It might be nice to point out when a call was introduced, and for deprecated calls, when it was deprecated. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
