From: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
To: kvmarm@lists.linux.dev
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>, Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>,
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>,
Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Subject: [PATCH v2] KVM: arm64: Document vCPU event ioctls as requiring init'ed vCPU
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:36:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250930233620.124607-1-oliver.upton@linux.dev> (raw)
KVM rejects calls to KVM_{GET,SET}_VCPU_EVENTS for an uninitialized vCPU
as of commit cc96679f3c03 ("KVM: arm64: Prevent access to vCPU events
before init"). Update the corresponding API documentation.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
---
v1 -> v2:
- I can't read.
Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
index 6aa40ee05a4a..15235a465879 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
@@ -1229,6 +1229,9 @@ It is not possible to read back a pending external abort (injected via
KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS or otherwise) because such an exception is always delivered
directly to the virtual CPU).
+Calling this ioctl on a vCPU that hasn't been initialized will return
+-ENOEXEC.
+
::
struct kvm_vcpu_events {
@@ -1309,6 +1312,8 @@ exceptions by manipulating individual registers using the KVM_SET_ONE_REG API.
See KVM_GET_VCPU_EVENTS for the data structure.
+Calling this ioctl on a vCPU that hasn't been initialized will return
+-ENOEXEC.
4.33 KVM_GET_DEBUGREGS
----------------------
base-commit: 10fd0285305d0b48e8a3bf15d4f17fc4f3d68cb6
--
2.39.5
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