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KVM: arm64: Document PV-time interface
authorSteven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Mon, 21 Oct 2019 15:28:14 +0000 (16:28 +0100)
committerMarc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Mon, 21 Oct 2019 18:20:25 +0000 (19:20 +0100)
commit107554ffd90494410f5441a6810c7da7d30b7195
treeec921843fb5a9d544d7dbecbd34bb28f9807a135
parent43646a7d624c5ec31d51a5f6028bc5a68b0b6a8d
KVM: arm64: Document PV-time interface

Introduce a paravirtualization interface for KVM/arm64 based on the
"Arm Paravirtualized Time for Arm-Base Systems" specification DEN 0057A.

This only adds the details about "Stolen Time" as the details of "Live
Physical Time" have not been fully agreed.

User space can specify a reserved area of memory for the guest and
inform KVM to populate the memory with information on time that the host
kernel has stolen from the guest.

A hypercall interface is provided for the guest to interrogate the
hypervisor's support for this interface and the location of the shared
memory structures.

Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pvtime.rst [new file with mode: 0644]
Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vcpu.txt