From: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, x86@kernel.org, gleb@redhat.com,
pbonzini@redhat.com
Cc: jeremy@goop.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
peterz@infradead.org, riel@redhat.com,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, andi@firstfloor.org,
Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
habanero@linux.vnet.ibm.com, drjones@redhat.com,
konrad.wilk@oracle.com,
Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
ouyang@cs.pitt.edu, avi.kivity@gmail.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
chegu_vinod@hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
srivatsa.vaddagiri@gmail.com, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [PATCH V13 4/4] Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls and features used for PV spinlock
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 14:18:36 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1377506916-26946-5-git-send-email-raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1377506916-26946-1-git-send-email-raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
KVM_HC_KICK_CPU hypercall added to wakeup halted vcpu in paravirtual spinlock
enabled guest.
KVM_FEATURE_PV_UNHALT enables guest to check whether pv spinlock can be enabled
in guest.
Thanks Vatsa for rewriting KVM_HC_KICK_CPU
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt | 4 ++++
Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt | 14 ++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt
index 83afe65..22ff659 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt
@@ -43,6 +43,10 @@ KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE2 || 3 || kvmclock available at msrs
KVM_FEATURE_ASYNC_PF || 4 || async pf can be enabled by
|| || writing to msr 0x4b564d02
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+KVM_FEATURE_PV_UNHALT || 7 || guest checks this feature bit
+ || || before enabling paravirtualized
+ || || spinlock support.
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE_STABLE_BIT || 24 || host will warn if no guest-side
|| || per-cpu warps are expected in
|| || kvmclock.
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt
index ea113b5..022198e 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt
@@ -64,3 +64,17 @@ Purpose: To enable communication between the hypervisor and guest there is a
shared page that contains parts of supervisor visible register state.
The guest can map this shared page to access its supervisor register through
memory using this hypercall.
+
+5. KVM_HC_KICK_CPU
+------------------------
+Architecture: x86
+Status: active
+Purpose: Hypercall used to wakeup a vcpu from HLT state
+Usage example : A vcpu of a paravirtualized guest that is busywaiting in guest
+kernel mode for an event to occur (ex: a spinlock to become available) can
+execute HLT instruction once it has busy-waited for more than a threshold
+time-interval. Execution of HLT instruction would cause the hypervisor to put
+the vcpu to sleep until occurence of an appropriate event. Another vcpu of the
+same guest can wakeup the sleeping vcpu by issuing KVM_HC_KICK_CPU hypercall,
+specifying APIC ID (a1) of the vcpu to be woken up. An additional argument (a0)
+is used in the hypercall for future use.
--
1.7.11.7
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-26 8:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1377506916-26946-1-git-send-email-raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-08-26 8:48 ` [PATCH V13 1/4] kvm uapi: Add KICK_CPU and PV_UNHALT definition to uapi Raghavendra K T
2013-08-26 8:48 ` [PATCH V13 2/4] kvm hypervisor : Add a hypercall to KVM hypervisor to support pv-ticketlocks Raghavendra K T
2013-08-26 8:48 ` [PATCH V13 3/4] kvm hypervisor: Simplify kvm_for_each_vcpu with kvm_irq_delivery_to_apic Raghavendra K T
2013-08-26 8:48 ` Raghavendra K T [this message]
2013-08-28 18:01 ` [PATCH V13 4/4] Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls and features used for PV spinlock Rob Landley
2013-08-26 10:04 ` [PATCH V13 0/4] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks for KVM host Gleb Natapov
2013-08-26 10:28 ` Raghavendra K T
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