Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls and features used for PV spinlock
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> Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
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@ -43,6 +43,10 @@ KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE2 || 3 || kvmclock available at msrs
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KVM_FEATURE_ASYNC_PF || 4 || async pf can be enabled by
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|| || writing to msr 0x4b564d02
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KVM_FEATURE_PV_UNHALT || 7 || guest checks this feature bit
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|| || before enabling paravirtualized
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|| || spinlock support.
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KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE_STABLE_BIT || 24 || host will warn if no guest-side
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|| || per-cpu warps are expected in
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|| || kvmclock.
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@ -64,3 +64,17 @@ Purpose: To enable communication between the hypervisor and guest there is a
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shared page that contains parts of supervisor visible register state.
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The guest can map this shared page to access its supervisor register through
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memory using this hypercall.
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5. KVM_HC_KICK_CPU
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Architecture: x86
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Status: active
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Purpose: Hypercall used to wakeup a vcpu from HLT state
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Usage example : A vcpu of a paravirtualized guest that is busywaiting in guest
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kernel mode for an event to occur (ex: a spinlock to become available) can
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execute HLT instruction once it has busy-waited for more than a threshold
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time-interval. Execution of HLT instruction would cause the hypervisor to put
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the vcpu to sleep until occurence of an appropriate event. Another vcpu of the
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same guest can wakeup the sleeping vcpu by issuing KVM_HC_KICK_CPU hypercall,
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specifying APIC ID (a1) of the vcpu to be woken up. An additional argument (a0)
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is used in the hypercall for future use.
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