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diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst index f4ea5e41a4d0..d3791a14eb9a 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst @@ -1569,6 +1569,7 @@ otherwise it will return EBUSY error. struct kvm_xsave { __u32 region[1024]; + __u32 extra[0]; }; This ioctl would copy current vcpu's xsave struct to the userspace. @@ -1577,7 +1578,7 @@ This ioctl would copy current vcpu's xsave struct to the userspace. 4.43 KVM_SET_XSAVE ------------------ -:Capability: KVM_CAP_XSAVE +:Capability: KVM_CAP_XSAVE and KVM_CAP_XSAVE2 :Architectures: x86 :Type: vcpu ioctl :Parameters: struct kvm_xsave (in) @@ -1588,9 +1589,18 @@ This ioctl would copy current vcpu's xsave struct to the userspace. struct kvm_xsave { __u32 region[1024]; + __u32 extra[0]; }; -This ioctl would copy userspace's xsave struct to the kernel. +This ioctl would copy userspace's xsave struct to the kernel. It copies +as many bytes as are returned by KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION(KVM_CAP_XSAVE2), +when invoked on the vm file descriptor. The size value returned by +KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION(KVM_CAP_XSAVE2) will always be at least 4096. +Currently, it is only greater than 4096 if a dynamic feature has been +enabled with ``arch_prctl()``, but this may change in the future. + +The offsets of the state save areas in struct kvm_xsave follow the +contents of CPUID leaf 0xD on the host. 4.44 KVM_GET_XCRS @@ -5535,6 +5545,34 @@ the trailing ``'\0'``, is indicated by ``name_size`` in the header. The Stats Data block contains an array of 64-bit values in the same order as the descriptors in Descriptors block. +4.42 KVM_GET_XSAVE2 +------------------ + +:Capability: KVM_CAP_XSAVE2 +:Architectures: x86 +:Type: vcpu ioctl +:Parameters: struct kvm_xsave (out) +:Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error + + +:: + + struct kvm_xsave { + __u32 region[1024]; + __u32 extra[0]; + }; + +This ioctl would copy current vcpu's xsave struct to the userspace. It +copies as many bytes as are returned by KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION(KVM_CAP_XSAVE2) +when invoked on the vm file descriptor. The size value returned by +KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION(KVM_CAP_XSAVE2) will always be at least 4096. +Currently, it is only greater than 4096 if a dynamic feature has been +enabled with ``arch_prctl()``, but this may change in the future. + +The offsets of the state save areas in struct kvm_xsave follow the contents +of CPUID leaf 0xD on the host. + + 5. The kvm_run structure ======================== |