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From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To: kvmarm@lists.linux.dev, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
	Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
	Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>,
	Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>,
	Ricardo Koller <ricarkol@google.com>,
	Simon Veith <sveith@amazon.de>,
	Reiji Watanabe <reijiw@google.com>,
	Colton Lewis <coltonlewis@google.com>,
	Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>,
	dwmw2@infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v4 15/20] KVM: arm64: Document KVM_ARM_SET_CNT_OFFSETS and co
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 18:47:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230330174800.2677007-16-maz@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230330174800.2677007-1-maz@kernel.org>

Add some basic documentation on the effects of KVM_ARM_SET_CNT_OFFSETS.

Reviewed-by: Colton Lewis <coltonlewis@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
---
 Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
index 62de0768d6aa..192adcb61add 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
@@ -6029,6 +6029,44 @@ delivery must be provided via the "reg_aen" struct.
 The "pad" and "reserved" fields may be used for future extensions and should be
 set to 0s by userspace.
 
+4.138 KVM_ARM_SET_COUNTER_OFFSET
+--------------------------------
+
+:Capability: KVM_CAP_COUNTER_OFFSET
+:Architectures: arm64
+:Type: vm ioctl
+:Parameters: struct kvm_arm_counter_offset (in)
+:Returns: 0 on success, < 0 on error
+
+This capability indicates that userspace is able to apply a single VM-wide
+offset to both the virtual and physical counters as viewed by the guest
+using the KVM_ARM_SET_CNT_OFFSET ioctl and the following data structure:
+
+::
+
+	struct kvm_arm_counter_offset {
+		__u64 counter_offset;
+		__u64 reserved;
+	};
+
+The offset describes a number of counter cycles that are subtracted from
+both virtual and physical counter views (similar to the effects of the
+CNTVOFF_EL2 and CNTPOFF_EL2 system registers, but only global). The offset
+always applies to all vcpus (already created or created after this ioctl)
+for this VM.
+
+It is userspace's responsibility to compute the offset based, for example,
+on previous values of the guest counters.
+
+Any value other than 0 for the "reserved" field may result in an error
+(-EINVAL) being returned. This ioctl can also return -EBUSY if any vcpu
+ioctl is issued concurrently.
+
+Note that using this ioctl results in KVM ignoring subsequent userspace
+writes to the CNTVCT_EL0 and CNTPCT_EL0 registers using the SET_ONE_REG
+interface. No error will be returned, but the resulting offset will not be
+applied.
+
 5. The kvm_run structure
 ========================
 
-- 
2.34.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-03-30 17:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-30 17:47 [PATCH v4 00/20] KVM: arm64: Rework timer offsetting for fun and profit Marc Zyngier
2023-03-30 17:47 ` [PATCH v4 01/20] KVM: arm64: timers: Use a per-vcpu, per-timer accumulator for fractional ns Marc Zyngier
2023-03-30 17:47 ` [PATCH v4 02/20] arm64: Add CNTPOFF_EL2 register definition Marc Zyngier
2023-03-30 17:47 ` [PATCH v4 03/20] arm64: Add HAS_ECV_CNTPOFF capability Marc Zyngier
2023-03-30 17:47 ` [PATCH v4 04/20] KVM: arm64: timers: Use CNTPOFF_EL2 to offset the physical timer Marc Zyngier
2023-04-10 15:48   ` Reiji Watanabe
2023-03-30 17:47 ` [PATCH v4 05/20] KVM: arm64: timers: Allow physical offset without CNTPOFF_EL2 Marc Zyngier
2023-04-10 15:34   ` Reiji Watanabe
2023-04-13 12:47     ` Marc Zyngier
2023-04-17  3:34       ` Reiji Watanabe
2025-07-09  8:12   ` Zenghui Yu
2025-07-19 12:04     ` Marc Zyngier
2023-03-30 17:47 ` [PATCH v4 06/20] KVM: arm64: Expose {un,}lock_all_vcpus() to the rest of KVM Marc Zyngier
2023-03-30 17:47 ` [PATCH v4 07/20] KVM: arm64: timers: Allow userspace to set the global counter offset Marc Zyngier
2023-03-30 17:47 ` [PATCH v4 08/20] KVM: arm64: timers: Allow save/restoring of the physical timer Marc Zyngier
2023-03-30 17:47 ` [PATCH v4 09/20] KVM: arm64: timers: Rationalise per-vcpu timer init Marc Zyngier
2023-03-30 17:47 ` [PATCH v4 10/20] KVM: arm64: timers: Abstract per-timer IRQ access Marc Zyngier
2023-03-30 17:47 ` [PATCH v4 11/20] KVM: arm64: timers: Move the timer IRQs into arch_timer_vm_data Marc Zyngier
2023-03-30 17:47 ` [PATCH v4 12/20] KVM: arm64: Elide kern_hyp_va() in VHE-specific parts of the hypervisor Marc Zyngier
2023-03-30 17:47 ` [PATCH v4 13/20] KVM: arm64: timers: Fast-track CNTPCT_EL0 trap handling Marc Zyngier
2023-03-30 17:47 ` [PATCH v4 14/20] KVM: arm64: timers: Abstract the number of valid timers per vcpu Marc Zyngier
2023-03-30 17:47 ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2023-03-30 17:47 ` [PATCH v4 16/20] KVM: arm64: nv: timers: Add a per-timer, per-vcpu offset Marc Zyngier
2023-03-30 17:47 ` [PATCH v4 17/20] KVM: arm64: nv: timers: Support hyp timer emulation Marc Zyngier
2023-03-30 17:47 ` [PATCH v4 18/20] KVM: arm64: selftests: Add physical timer registers to the sysreg list Marc Zyngier
2023-03-30 17:47 ` [PATCH v4 19/20] KVM: arm64: selftests: Deal with spurious timer interrupts Marc Zyngier
2023-03-30 17:48 ` [PATCH v4 20/20] KVM: arm64: selftests: Augment existing timer test to handle variable offset Marc Zyngier

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