From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Raghavendra K T Subject: [PATCH RFC V8 17/17] Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls and features used for PV spinlock Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 15:39:47 +0530 Message-ID: <20120502100947.13206.26518.sendpatchset@codeblue.in.ibm.com> References: <20120502100610.13206.40.sendpatchset@codeblue.in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20120502100610.13206.40.sendpatchset@codeblue.in.ibm.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , "H. Peter Anvin" , Avi Kivity , X86 , Gleb Natapov , Ingo Molnar , Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Xen Devel , KVM , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, LKML , Raghavendra K T , Srivatsa Vaddagiri , Virtualization , Andi Kleen , Stephan Diestelhorst , Attilio Rao , Linus Torvalds , Stefano Stabellini List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org From: Raghavendra K T 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 Alex for KVM_HC_FEATURES inputs and Vatsa for rewriting KVM_HC_KICK_CPU Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T --- Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt | 4 ++ Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt index 8820685..062dff9 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt @@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ 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 || 6 || 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 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bc3f14a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +KVM Hypercalls Documentation +=========================== +The template for each hypercall is: +1. Hypercall name, value. +2. Architecture(s) +3. Status (deprecated, obsolete, active) +4. Purpose + +1. KVM_HC_VAPIC_POLL_IRQ +------------------------ +Value: 1 +Architecture: x86 +Purpose: None + +2. KVM_HC_MMU_OP +------------------------ +Value: 2 +Architecture: x86 +Status: deprecated. +Purpose: Support MMU operations such as writing to PTE, +flushing TLB, release PT. + +3. KVM_HC_FEATURES +------------------------ +Value: 3 +Architecture: PPC +Status: active +Purpose: Expose hypercall availability to the guest. On x86 platforms, cpuid +used to enumerate which hypercalls are available. On PPC, either device tree +based lookup ( which is also what EPAPR dictates) OR KVM specific enumeration +mechanism (which is this hypercall) can be used. + +4. KVM_HC_PPC_MAP_MAGIC_PAGE +------------------------ +Value: 4 +Architecture: PPC +Status: active +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 +------------------------ +Value: 5 +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 of the vcpu to be wokenup. + +TODO: +1. more information on input and output needed? +2. Add more detail to purpose of hypercalls.