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author | Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2016-08-04 17:58:47 +0200 |
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committer | Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> | 2017-06-22 12:41:06 +0200 |
commit | 4036e3874a1ce41a4f7267289f9a0d8e5cd49408 (patch) | |
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KVM: s390: ioctls to get and set guest storage attributes
* Add the struct used in the ioctls to get and set CMMA attributes.
* Add the two functions needed to get and set the CMMA attributes for
guest pages.
* Add the two ioctls that use the aforementioned functions.
Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 135 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt index 4029943887a3..912b7df8215a 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt @@ -3255,6 +3255,141 @@ Otherwise, if the MCE is a corrected error, KVM will just store it in the corresponding bank (provided this bank is not holding a previously reported uncorrected error). +4.107 KVM_S390_GET_CMMA_BITS + +Capability: KVM_CAP_S390_CMMA_MIGRATION +Architectures: s390 +Type: vm ioctl +Parameters: struct kvm_s390_cmma_log (in, out) +Returns: 0 on success, a negative value on error + +This ioctl is used to get the values of the CMMA bits on the s390 +architecture. It is meant to be used in two scenarios: +- During live migration to save the CMMA values. Live migration needs + to be enabled via the KVM_REQ_START_MIGRATION VM property. +- To non-destructively peek at the CMMA values, with the flag + KVM_S390_CMMA_PEEK set. + +The ioctl takes parameters via the kvm_s390_cmma_log struct. The desired +values are written to a buffer whose location is indicated via the "values" +member in the kvm_s390_cmma_log struct. The values in the input struct are +also updated as needed. +Each CMMA value takes up one byte. + +struct kvm_s390_cmma_log { + __u64 start_gfn; + __u32 count; + __u32 flags; + union { + __u64 remaining; + __u64 mask; + }; + __u64 values; +}; + +start_gfn is the number of the first guest frame whose CMMA values are +to be retrieved, + +count is the length of the buffer in bytes, + +values points to the buffer where the result will be written to. + +If count is greater than KVM_S390_SKEYS_MAX, then it is considered to be +KVM_S390_SKEYS_MAX. KVM_S390_SKEYS_MAX is re-used for consistency with +other ioctls. + +The result is written in the buffer pointed to by the field values, and +the values of the input parameter are updated as follows. + +Depending on the flags, different actions are performed. The only +supported flag so far is KVM_S390_CMMA_PEEK. + +The default behaviour if KVM_S390_CMMA_PEEK is not set is: +start_gfn will indicate the first page frame whose CMMA bits were dirty. +It is not necessarily the same as the one passed as input, as clean pages +are skipped. + +count will indicate the number of bytes actually written in the buffer. +It can (and very often will) be smaller than the input value, since the +buffer is only filled until 16 bytes of clean values are found (which +are then not copied in the buffer). Since a CMMA migration block needs +the base address and the length, for a total of 16 bytes, we will send +back some clean data if there is some dirty data afterwards, as long as +the size of the clean data does not exceed the size of the header. This +allows to minimize the amount of data to be saved or transferred over +the network at the expense of more roundtrips to userspace. The next +invocation of the ioctl will skip over all the clean values, saving +potentially more than just the 16 bytes we found. + +If KVM_S390_CMMA_PEEK is set: +the existing storage attributes are read even when not in migration +mode, and no other action is performed; + +the output start_gfn will be equal to the input start_gfn, + +the output count will be equal to the input count, except if the end of +memory has been reached. + +In both cases: +the field "remaining" will indicate the total number of dirty CMMA values +still remaining, or 0 if KVM_S390_CMMA_PEEK is set and migration mode is +not enabled. + +mask is unused. + +values points to the userspace buffer where the result will be stored. + +This ioctl can fail with -ENOMEM if not enough memory can be allocated to +complete the task, with -ENXIO if CMMA is not enabled, with -EINVAL if +KVM_S390_CMMA_PEEK is not set but migration mode was not enabled, with +-EFAULT if the userspace address is invalid or if no page table is +present for the addresses (e.g. when using hugepages). + +4.108 KVM_S390_SET_CMMA_BITS + +Capability: KVM_CAP_S390_CMMA_MIGRATION +Architectures: s390 +Type: vm ioctl +Parameters: struct kvm_s390_cmma_log (in) +Returns: 0 on success, a negative value on error + +This ioctl is used to set the values of the CMMA bits on the s390 +architecture. It is meant to be used during live migration to restore +the CMMA values, but there are no restrictions on its use. +The ioctl takes parameters via the kvm_s390_cmma_values struct. +Each CMMA value takes up one byte. + +struct kvm_s390_cmma_log { + __u64 start_gfn; + __u32 count; + __u32 flags; + union { + __u64 remaining; + __u64 mask; + }; + __u64 values; +}; + +start_gfn indicates the starting guest frame number, + +count indicates how many values are to be considered in the buffer, + +flags is not used and must be 0. + +mask indicates which PGSTE bits are to be considered. + +remaining is not used. + +values points to the buffer in userspace where to store the values. + +This ioctl can fail with -ENOMEM if not enough memory can be allocated to +complete the task, with -ENXIO if CMMA is not enabled, with -EINVAL if +the count field is too large (e.g. more than KVM_S390_CMMA_SIZE_MAX) or +if the flags field was not 0, with -EFAULT if the userspace address is +invalid, if invalid pages are written to (e.g. after the end of memory) +or if no page table is present for the addresses (e.g. when using +hugepages). + 5. The kvm_run structure ------------------------ |