Commit 8ad6b634 authored by Anup Patel's avatar Anup Patel Committed by Christoffer Dall
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KVM: Add KVM_EXIT_SYSTEM_EVENT to user space API header 



Currently, we don't have an exit reason to notify user space about
a system-level event (for e.g. system reset or shutdown) triggered
by the VCPU. This patch adds exit reason KVM_EXIT_SYSTEM_EVENT for
this purpose. We can also inform user space about the 'type' and
architecture specific 'flags' of a system-level event using the
kvm_run structure.

This newly added KVM_EXIT_SYSTEM_EVENT will be used by KVM ARM/ARM64
in-kernel PSCI v0.2 support to reset/shutdown VMs.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAnup Patel <anup.patel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPranavkumar Sawargaonkar <pranavkumar@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
parent e8e7fcc5

Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt

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@@ -2740,6 +2740,21 @@ It gets triggered whenever both KVM_CAP_PPC_EPR are enabled and an 
external interrupt has just been delivered into the guest. User space

should put the acknowledged interrupt vector into the 'epr' field.



		/* KVM_EXIT_SYSTEM_EVENT */

		struct {

#define KVM_SYSTEM_EVENT_SHUTDOWN       1

#define KVM_SYSTEM_EVENT_RESET          2

			__u32 type;

			__u64 flags;

		} system_event;



If exit_reason is KVM_EXIT_SYSTEM_EVENT then the vcpu has triggered

a system-level event using some architecture specific mechanism (hypercall

or some special instruction). In case of ARM/ARM64, this is triggered using

HVC instruction based PSCI call from the vcpu. The 'type' field describes

the system-level event type. The 'flags' field describes architecture

specific flags for the system-level event.



		/* Fix the size of the union. */

		char padding[256];

	};

include/uapi/linux/kvm.h

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@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ struct kvm_pit_config { 
#define KVM_EXIT_WATCHDOG         21

#define KVM_EXIT_S390_TSCH        22

#define KVM_EXIT_EPR              23

#define KVM_EXIT_SYSTEM_EVENT     24



/* For KVM_EXIT_INTERNAL_ERROR */

/* Emulate instruction failed. */
@@ -301,6 +302,13 @@ struct kvm_run { 
		struct {

			__u32 epr;

		} epr;

		/* KVM_EXIT_SYSTEM_EVENT */

		struct {

#define KVM_SYSTEM_EVENT_SHUTDOWN       1

#define KVM_SYSTEM_EVENT_RESET          2

			__u32 type;

			__u64 flags;

		} system_event;

		/* Fix the size of the union. */

		char padding[256];

	};

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