[PATCH v4 10/14] KVM: ARM: User space API for getting/setting co-proc registers

Christoffer Dall c.dall at virtualopensystems.com
Fri Nov 30 01:42:50 EST 2012


On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 03:43:21PM +0000, Christoffer Dall wrote:
>> The following three ioctls are implemented:
>>  -  KVM_GET_REG_LIST
>>  -  KVM_GET_ONE_REG
>>  -  KVM_SET_ONE_REG
>
> [...]
>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
>> index 845ceda..9671cd2 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
>> @@ -1798,6 +1798,11 @@ is the register group type, or coprocessor number:
>>  ARM core registers have the following id bit patterns:
>>    0x4002 0000 0010 <index into the kvm_regs struct:16>
>>
>> +ARM 32-bit CP15 registers have the following id bit patterns:
>> +  0x4002 0000 000F <zero:1> <crn:4> <crm:4> <opc1:4> <opc2:3>
>> +
>> +ARM 64-bit CP15 registers have the following id bit patterns:
>> +  0x4003 0000 000F <zero:1> <zero:4> <crm:4> <opc1:4> <zero:3>
>>
>>
>>  4.69 KVM_GET_ONE_REG
>> @@ -2139,6 +2144,45 @@ This ioctl returns the guest registers that are supported for the
>>  KVM_GET_ONE_REG/KVM_SET_ONE_REG calls.
>>
>>
>> +4.77 KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT
>> +
>> +Capability: basic
>> +Architectures: arm
>> +Type: vcpu ioctl
>> +Parameters: struct struct kvm_vcpu_init (in)
>> +Returns: 0 on success; -1 on error
>> +Errors:
>> +  EINVAL:    the target is unknown, or the combination of features is invalid.
>> +  ENOENT:    a features bit specified is unknown.
>> +
>> +This tells KVM what type of CPU to present to the guest, and what
>> +optional features it should have.  This will cause a reset of the cpu
>> +registers to their initial values.  If this is not called, KVM_RUN will
>> +return ENOEXEC for that vcpu.
>> +
>> +Note that because some registers reflect machine topology, all vcpus
>> +should be created before this ioctl is invoked.
>> +
>> +4.78 KVM_GET_REG_LIST
>> +
>> +Capability: basic
>> +Architectures: arm
>> +Type: vcpu ioctl
>> +Parameters: struct kvm_reg_list (in/out)
>> +Returns: 0 on success; -1 on error
>> +Errors:
>> +  E2BIG:     the reg index list is too big to fit in the array specified by
>> +             the user (the number required will be written into n).
>> +
>> +struct kvm_reg_list {
>> +       __u64 n; /* number of registers in reg[] */
>> +       __u64 reg[0];
>> +};
>> +
>> +This ioctl returns the guest registers that are supported for the
>> +KVM_GET_ONE_REG/KVM_SET_ONE_REG calls.
>> +
>> +
>
> You already added this hunk earlier (and looking at the final result,
> you do end up wih two entries for 4.77 and 4.78).
>
duh, thanks.



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