[PATCH v3 5/5] KVM: arm64: Document PMU filtering API

[Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>]

Add a small blurb describing how the event filtering API gets used.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
---
 Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vcpu.rst | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vcpu.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vcpu.rst
index ca374d3fe085..203b91e93151 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vcpu.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vcpu.rst
@@ -55,6 +55,52 @@ Request the initialization of the PMUv3.  If using the PMUv3 with an in-kernel
 virtual GIC implementation, this must be done after initializing the in-kernel
 irqchip.
 
+1.3 ATTRIBUTE: KVM_ARM_VCPU_PMU_V3_FILTER
+---------------------------------------
+
+:Parameters: in kvm_device_attr.addr the address for a PMU event filter is a
+             pointer to a struct kvm_pmu_event_filter
+
+:Returns:
+
+	 =======  ======================================================
+	 -ENODEV: PMUv3 not supported or GIC not initialized
+	 -ENXIO:  PMUv3 not properly configured or in-kernel irqchip not
+	 	  configured as required prior to calling this attribute
+	 -EBUSY:  PMUv3 already initialized
+	 -EINVAL: Invalid filter range
+	 =======  ======================================================
+
+Request the installation of a PMU event filter describe as follows:
+
+struct kvm_pmu_event_filter {
+	__u16	base_event;
+	__u16	nevents;
+
+#define KVM_PMU_EVENT_ALLOW	0
+#define KVM_PMU_EVENT_DENY	1
+
+	__u8	action;
+	__u8	pad[3];
+};
+
+A filter range is defined as the range [@base_event, @base_event + @nevents[,
+together with an @action (KVM_PMU_EVENT_ALLOW or KVM_PMU_EVENT_DENY). The
+first registered range defines the global policy (global ALLOW if the first
+@action is DENY, global DENY if the first @action is ALLOW). Multiple ranges
+can be programmed, and must fit within the event space defined by the PMU
+architecture (10 bits on ARMv8.0, 16 bits from ARMv8.1 onwards).
+
+Note: "Cancelling" a filter by registering the opposite action for the same
+range doesn't change the default action. For example, installing an ALLOW
+filter for event range [0:10] as the first filter and then applying a DENY
+action for the same range will leave the whole range as disabled.
+
+Restrictions: Event 0 (SW_INCR) is never filtered, as it doesn't count a
+hardware event. Filtering event 0x1E (CHAIN) has no effect either, as it
+isn't strictly speaking an event. Filtering the cycle counter is possible
+using event 0x11 (CPU_CYCLES).
+
 
 2. GROUP: KVM_ARM_VCPU_TIMER_CTRL
 =================================
-- 
2.28.0


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