-----------------
:Capability: basic
-:Architectures: all except ARM, arm64
+:Architectures: all except arm64
:Type: vcpu ioctl
:Parameters: struct kvm_regs (out)
:Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
-----------------
:Capability: basic
-:Architectures: all except ARM, arm64
+:Architectures: all except arm64
:Type: vcpu ioctl
:Parameters: struct kvm_regs (in)
:Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
-----------------------
:Capability: KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP, KVM_CAP_S390_IRQCHIP (s390)
-:Architectures: x86, ARM, arm64, s390
+:Architectures: x86, arm64, s390
:Type: vm ioctl
:Parameters: none
:Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
On x86, creates a virtual ioapic, a virtual PIC (two PICs, nested), and sets up
future vcpus to have a local APIC. IRQ routing for GSIs 0-15 is set to both
PIC and IOAPIC; GSI 16-23 only go to the IOAPIC.
-On ARM/arm64, a GICv2 is created. Any other GIC versions require the usage of
+On arm64, a GICv2 is created. Any other GIC versions require the usage of
KVM_CREATE_DEVICE, which also supports creating a GICv2. Using
KVM_CREATE_DEVICE is preferred over KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP for GICv2.
On s390, a dummy irq routing table is created.
-----------------
:Capability: KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP
-:Architectures: x86, arm, arm64
+:Architectures: x86, arm64
:Type: vm ioctl
:Parameters: struct kvm_irq_level
:Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
of course).
-ARM/arm64 can signal an interrupt either at the CPU level, or at the
+arm64 can signal an interrupt either at the CPU level, or at the
in-kernel irqchip (GIC), and for in-kernel irqchip can tell the GIC to
use PPIs designated for specific cpus. The irq field is interpreted
like this::
identified as (256 * vcpu2_index + vcpu_index). Otherwise, vcpu2_index
must be zero.
-Note that on arm/arm64, the KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP capability only conditions
+Note that on arm64, the KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP capability only conditions
injection of interrupts for the in-kernel irqchip. KVM_IRQ_LINE can always
be used for a userspace interrupt controller.
:Capability: KVM_CAP_VCPU_EVENTS
:Extended by: KVM_CAP_INTR_SHADOW
-:Architectures: x86, arm, arm64
+:Architectures: x86, arm64
:Type: vcpu ioctl
:Parameters: struct kvm_vcpu_event (out)
:Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
fields contain a valid state. This bit will be set whenever
KVM_CAP_EXCEPTION_PAYLOAD is enabled.
-ARM/ARM64:
-^^^^^^^^^^
+ARM64:
+^^^^^^
If the guest accesses a device that is being emulated by the host kernel in
such a way that a real device would generate a physical SError, KVM may make
:Capability: KVM_CAP_VCPU_EVENTS
:Extended by: KVM_CAP_INTR_SHADOW
-:Architectures: x86, arm, arm64
+:Architectures: x86, arm64
:Type: vcpu ioctl
:Parameters: struct kvm_vcpu_event (in)
:Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
exception_has_payload, exception_payload, and exception.pending fields
contain a valid state and shall be written into the VCPU.
-ARM/ARM64:
-^^^^^^^^^^
+ARM64:
+^^^^^^
User space may need to inject several types of events to the guest.
---------------------
:Capability: KVM_CAP_MP_STATE
-:Architectures: x86, s390, arm, arm64, riscv
+:Architectures: x86, s390, arm64, riscv
:Type: vcpu ioctl
:Parameters: struct kvm_mp_state (out)
:Returns: 0 on success; -1 on error
========================== ===============================================
KVM_MP_STATE_RUNNABLE the vcpu is currently running
- [x86,arm/arm64,riscv]
+ [x86,arm64,riscv]
KVM_MP_STATE_UNINITIALIZED the vcpu is an application processor (AP)
which has not yet received an INIT signal [x86]
KVM_MP_STATE_INIT_RECEIVED the vcpu has received an INIT signal, and is
is waiting for an interrupt [x86]
KVM_MP_STATE_SIPI_RECEIVED the vcpu has just received a SIPI (vector
accessible via KVM_GET_VCPU_EVENTS) [x86]
- KVM_MP_STATE_STOPPED the vcpu is stopped [s390,arm/arm64,riscv]
+ KVM_MP_STATE_STOPPED the vcpu is stopped [s390,arm64,riscv]
KVM_MP_STATE_CHECK_STOP the vcpu is in a special error state [s390]
KVM_MP_STATE_OPERATING the vcpu is operating (running or halted)
[s390]
in-kernel irqchip, the multiprocessing state must be maintained by userspace on
these architectures.
-For arm/arm64/riscv:
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+For arm64/riscv:
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The only states that are valid are KVM_MP_STATE_STOPPED and
KVM_MP_STATE_RUNNABLE which reflect if the vcpu is paused or not.
---------------------
:Capability: KVM_CAP_MP_STATE
-:Architectures: x86, s390, arm, arm64, riscv
+:Architectures: x86, s390, arm64, riscv
:Type: vcpu ioctl
:Parameters: struct kvm_mp_state (in)
:Returns: 0 on success; -1 on error
in-kernel irqchip, the multiprocessing state must be maintained by userspace on
these architectures.
-For arm/arm64/riscv:
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+For arm64/riscv:
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The only states that are valid are KVM_MP_STATE_STOPPED and
KVM_MP_STATE_RUNNABLE which reflect if the vcpu should be paused or not.
------------------------
:Capability: KVM_CAP_IRQ_ROUTING
-:Architectures: x86 s390 arm arm64
+:Architectures: x86 s390 arm64
:Type: vm ioctl
:Parameters: struct kvm_irq_routing (in)
:Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
Sets the GSI routing table entries, overwriting any previously set entries.
-On arm/arm64, GSI routing has the following limitation:
+On arm64, GSI routing has the following limitation:
- GSI routing does not apply to KVM_IRQ_LINE but only to KVM_IRQFD.
-------------------
:Capability: KVM_CAP_SIGNAL_MSI
-:Architectures: x86 arm arm64
+:Architectures: x86 arm64
:Type: vm ioctl
:Parameters: struct kvm_msi (in)
:Returns: >0 on delivery, 0 if guest blocked the MSI, and -1 on error
--------------
:Capability: KVM_CAP_IRQFD
-:Architectures: x86 s390 arm arm64
+:Architectures: x86 s390 arm64
:Type: vm ioctl
:Parameters: struct kvm_irqfd (in)
:Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
irqfd. The KVM_IRQFD_FLAG_RESAMPLE is only necessary on assignment
and need not be specified with KVM_IRQFD_FLAG_DEASSIGN.
-On arm/arm64, gsi routing being supported, the following can happen:
+On arm64, gsi routing being supported, the following can happen:
- in case no routing entry is associated to this gsi, injection fails
- in case the gsi is associated to an irqchip routing entry,
----------------------
:Capability: basic
-:Architectures: arm, arm64
+:Architectures: arm64
:Type: vcpu ioctl
:Parameters: struct kvm_vcpu_init (in)
:Returns: 0 on success; -1 on error
-----------------------------
:Capability: basic
-:Architectures: arm, arm64
+:Architectures: arm64
:Type: vm ioctl
:Parameters: struct kvm_vcpu_init (out)
:Returns: 0 on success; -1 on error
---------------------
:Capability: basic
-:Architectures: arm, arm64, mips
+:Architectures: arm64, mips
:Type: vcpu ioctl
:Parameters: struct kvm_reg_list (in/out)
:Returns: 0 on success; -1 on error
-----------------------------------------
:Capability: KVM_CAP_ARM_SET_DEVICE_ADDR
-:Architectures: arm, arm64
+:Architectures: arm64
:Type: vm ioctl
:Parameters: struct kvm_arm_device_address (in)
:Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
to know about. The id field is an architecture specific identifier for a
specific device.
-ARM/arm64 divides the id field into two parts, a device id and an
+arm64 divides the id field into two parts, a device id and an
address type id specific to the individual device::
bits: | 63 ... 32 | 31 ... 16 | 15 ... 0 |
field: | 0x00000000 | device id | addr type id |
-ARM/arm64 currently only require this when using the in-kernel GIC
+arm64 currently only require this when using the in-kernel GIC
support for the hardware VGIC features, using KVM_ARM_DEVICE_VGIC_V2
as the device id. When setting the base address for the guest's
mapping of the VGIC virtual CPU and distributor interface, the ioctl
------------------------------------
:Capability: KVM_CAP_MANUAL_DIRTY_LOG_PROTECT2
-:Architectures: x86, arm, arm64, mips
+:Architectures: x86, arm64, mips
:Type: vm ioctl
:Parameters: struct kvm_clear_dirty_log (in)
:Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
4.119 KVM_ARM_VCPU_FINALIZE
---------------------------
-:Architectures: arm, arm64
+:Architectures: arm64
:Type: vcpu ioctl
:Parameters: int feature (in)
:Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
If exit_reason is KVM_EXIT_SYSTEM_EVENT then the vcpu has triggered
a system-level event using some architecture specific mechanism (hypercall
-or some special instruction). In case of ARM/ARM64, this is triggered using
+or some special instruction). In case of ARM64, this is triggered using
HVC instruction based PSCI call from the vcpu. The 'type' field describes
the system-level event type. The 'flags' field describes architecture
specific flags for the system-level event.
__u64 fault_ipa;
} arm_nisv;
-Used on arm and arm64 systems. If a guest accesses memory not in a memslot,
+Used on arm64 systems. If a guest accesses memory not in a memslot,
KVM will typically return to userspace and ask it to do MMIO emulation on its
behalf. However, for certain classes of instructions, no instruction decode
(direction, length of memory access) is provided, and fetching and decoding
Userspace implementations can query for KVM_CAP_ARM_NISV_TO_USER, and enable
this capability at VM creation. Once this is done, these types of errors will
instead return to userspace with KVM_EXIT_ARM_NISV, with the valid bits from
-the HSR (arm) and ESR_EL2 (arm64) in the esr_iss field, and the faulting IPA
-in the fault_ipa field. Userspace can either fix up the access if it's
-actually an I/O access by decoding the instruction from guest memory (if it's
-very brave) and continue executing the guest, or it can decide to suspend,
-dump, or restart the guest.
+the ESR_EL2 in the esr_iss field, and the faulting IPA in the fault_ipa field.
+Userspace can either fix up the access if it's actually an I/O access by
+decoding the instruction from guest memory (if it's very brave) and continue
+executing the guest, or it can decide to suspend, dump, or restart the guest.
Note that KVM does not skip the faulting instruction as it does for
KVM_EXIT_MMIO, but userspace has to emulate any change to the processing state
7.18 KVM_CAP_MANUAL_DIRTY_LOG_PROTECT2
-:Architectures: x86, arm, arm64, mips
+:Architectures: x86, arm64, mips
:Parameters: args[0] whether feature should be enabled or not
Valid flags are::
8.9 KVM_CAP_ARM_USER_IRQ
------------------------
-:Architectures: arm, arm64
+:Architectures: arm64
This capability, if KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION indicates that it is available, means
that if userspace creates a VM without an in-kernel interrupt controller, it
8.19 KVM_CAP_ARM_INJECT_SERROR_ESR
----------------------------------
-:Architectures: arm, arm64
+:Architectures: arm64
This capability indicates that userspace can specify (via the
KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS ioctl) the syndrome value reported to the guest when it
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