[PATCH 1/5] KVM: arm64: Document PV-lock interface

yezengruan at huawei.com
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 13:55:45 -0000

Introduce a paravirtualization interface for KVM/arm64 to obtain the vcpu
is currently running or not.

A hypercall interface is provided for the guest to interrogate the
hypervisor's support for this interface and the location of the shared
memory structures.

Signed-off-by: Zengruan Ye <yezengruan at huawei.com>
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 Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pvlock.rst | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+Paravirtualized lock support for arm64
+=====================================+
+KVM/arm64 provids some hypervisor service calls to support a paravirtualized
+guest obtaining the vcpu is currently running or not.
+
+Two new SMCCC compatible hypercalls are defined:
+
+* PV_LOCK_FEATURES:   0xC5000040
+* PV_LOCK_PREEMPTED:  0xC5000041
+
+The existence of the PV_LOCK hypercall should be probed using the SMCCC 1.1
+ARCH_FEATURES mechanism before calling it.
+
+PV_LOCK_FEATURES
+    ============= ========    =========+    Function ID:  (uint32)
0xC5000040
+    PV_call_id:   (uint32)    The function to query for support.
+    Return value: (int64)     NOT_SUPPORTED (-1) or SUCCESS (0) if the relevant
+                              PV-lock feature is supported by the hypervisor.
+    ============= ========    =========+
+PV_LOCK_PREEMPTED
+    ============= ========    =========+    Function ID:  (uint32)
0xC5000041
+    Return value: (int64)     NOT_SUPPORTED (-1) or SUCCESS (0) if the IPA of
+                              this vcpu's pv data structure is configured
by
+                              the hypervisor.
+    ============= ========    =========--
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