From: Jiaqi Yan <jiaqiyan@google.com>
To: maz@kernel.org, oliver.upton@linux.dev
Cc: joey.gouly@arm.com, suzuki.poulose@arm.com, yuzenghui@huawei.com,
catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org, pbonzini@redhat.com,
corbet@lwn.net, shuah@kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
kvmarm@lists.linux.dev, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, rananta@google.com,
Jiaqi Yan <jiaqiyan@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH v1 4/4] Documentation: kvm: update UAPI for injecting SEA
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 21:20:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250731212004.1437336-5-jiaqiyan@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250731212004.1437336-1-jiaqiyan@google.com>
- KVM_CAP_ARM_INJECT_EXT_IABT: userspace can inject external
instruction abort to guest.
- ext_abt_has_esr and ext_abt_esr: userspace can supplement ISS
fields while injecting SEA, for both data and instruction aborts.
Signed-off-by: Jiaqi Yan <jiaqiyan@google.com>
---
Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
index 53e0179d52949..8190ffb145c37 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
@@ -1236,9 +1236,11 @@ directly to the virtual CPU).
__u8 serror_pending;
__u8 serror_has_esr;
__u8 ext_dabt_pending;
+ __u8 ext_iabt_pending;
/* Align it to 8 bytes */
- __u8 pad[5];
+ __u8 pad[4];
__u64 serror_esr;
+ __u64 ext_abt_esr;
} exception;
__u32 reserved[12];
};
@@ -1292,20 +1294,42 @@ ARM64:
User space may need to inject several types of events to the guest.
+Inject SError
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
Set the pending SError exception state for this VCPU. It is not possible to
'cancel' an Serror that has been made pending.
-If the guest performed an access to I/O memory which could not be handled by
-userspace, for example because of missing instruction syndrome decode
-information or because there is no device mapped at the accessed IPA, then
-userspace can ask the kernel to inject an external abort using the address
-from the exiting fault on the VCPU. It is a programming error to set
-ext_dabt_pending after an exit which was not either KVM_EXIT_MMIO or
-KVM_EXIT_ARM_NISV. This feature is only available if the system supports
-KVM_CAP_ARM_INJECT_EXT_DABT. This is a helper which provides commonality in
-how userspace reports accesses for the above cases to guests, across different
-userspace implementations. Nevertheless, userspace can still emulate all Arm
-exceptions by manipulating individual registers using the KVM_SET_ONE_REG API.
+Inject SEA (synchronous external abort)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- If the guest performed an access to I/O memory which could not be handled by
+ userspace, for example because of missing instruction syndrome decode
+ information or because there is no device mapped at the accessed IPA.
+
+- If the guest consumed an uncorrectable memory error on guest owned memory,
+ and RAS in the Trusted Firmware chooses to notify PE with SEA, KVM has to
+ handle it when host APEI is unable to claim the SEA. If userspace has enabled
+ KVM_CAP_ARM_SEA_TO_USER, KVM returns to userspace with KVM_EXIT_ARM_SEA.
+
+For the cases above, userspace can ask the kernel to replay either an external
+data abort (by setting ext_dabt_pending) or an external instruction abort
+(by setting ext_iabt_pending) into the faulting VCPU. Userspace can provide
+Instruction Specific Syndrome (ISS) in the ext_abt_esr field to supplement
+the ESR register value being injected into the faulting VCPU. KVM will use the
+address from the existing fault on the VCPU. Setting both ext_dabt_pending and
+ext_iabt_pending at the same time will return -EINVAL. Setting anything not
+being part of the ISS (bits [24:0] of ext_abt_esr) will return -EINVAL.
+
+It is a programming error to set ext_dabt_pending or ext_iabt_pending after an
+exit which was not KVM_EXIT_MMIO, KVM_EXIT_ARM_NISV or KVM_EXIT_ARM_SEA.
+Injecting SEA for data and instruction abort is only available if KVM supports
+KVM_CAP_ARM_INJECT_EXT_DABT and KVM_CAP_ARM_INJECT_EXT_IABT respectively.
+
+This is a helper which provides commonality in how userspace reports accesses
+for the above cases to guests, across different userspace implementations.
+Nevertheless, userspace can still emulate all Arm exceptions by manipulating
+individual registers using the KVM_SET_ONE_REG API.
See KVM_GET_VCPU_EVENTS for the data structure.
--
2.50.1.565.gc32cd1483b-goog
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-07-31 21:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-31 21:20 [PATCH v1 0/4] A couple of improvements for VMM to inject external abort to guest Jiaqi Yan
2025-07-31 21:20 ` [PATCH v1 1/4] KVM: arm64: Allow userspace to inject external instruction abort Jiaqi Yan
2025-07-31 21:20 ` [PATCH v1 2/4] KVM: arm64: Allow userspace to supply ESR when injecting SEA Jiaqi Yan
2025-07-31 21:20 ` [PATCH v1 3/4] KVM: selftests: Test injecting external abort with ISS Jiaqi Yan
2025-07-31 21:20 ` Jiaqi Yan [this message]
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