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diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst index 3372be85b335..bd93cafd3e4e 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst @@ -5523,11 +5523,12 @@ KVM_XEN_ATTR_TYPE_SHARED_INFO Sets the guest physical frame number at which the Xen shared_info page resides. Note that although Xen places vcpu_info for the first 32 vCPUs in the shared_info page, KVM does not automatically do so - and instead requires that KVM_XEN_VCPU_ATTR_TYPE_VCPU_INFO be used - explicitly even when the vcpu_info for a given vCPU resides at the - "default" location in the shared_info page. This is because KVM may - not be aware of the Xen CPU id which is used as the index into the - vcpu_info[] array, so may know the correct default location. + and instead requires that KVM_XEN_VCPU_ATTR_TYPE_VCPU_INFO or + KVM_XEN_VCPU_ATTR_TYPE_VCPU_INFO_HVA be used explicitly even when + the vcpu_info for a given vCPU resides at the "default" location + in the shared_info page. This is because KVM may not be aware of + the Xen CPU id which is used as the index into the vcpu_info[] + array, so may know the correct default location. Note that the shared_info page may be constantly written to by KVM; it contains the event channel bitmap used to deliver interrupts to @@ -5649,6 +5650,21 @@ KVM_XEN_VCPU_ATTR_TYPE_VCPU_INFO on dirty logging. Setting the gpa to KVM_XEN_INVALID_GPA will disable the vcpu_info. +KVM_XEN_VCPU_ATTR_TYPE_VCPU_INFO_HVA + If the KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG_SHARED_INFO_HVA flag is also set in the + Xen capabilities, then this attribute may be used to set the + userspace address of the vcpu_info for a given vCPU. It should + only be used when the vcpu_info resides at the "default" location + in the shared_info page. In this case it is safe to assume the + userspace address will not change, because the shared_info page is + an overlay on guest memory and remains at a fixed host address + regardless of where it is mapped in guest physical address space + and hence unnecessary invalidation of an internal cache may be + avoided if the guest memory layout is modified. + If the vcpu_info does not reside at the "default" location then + it is not guaranteed to remain at the same host address and + hence the aforementioned cache invalidation is required. + KVM_XEN_VCPU_ATTR_TYPE_VCPU_TIME_INFO Sets the guest physical address of an additional pvclock structure for a given vCPU. This is typically used for guest vsyscall support. |