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authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2017-02-07 18:18:13 +0100
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2017-02-07 18:18:13 +0100
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Merge tag 'kvm_mips_4.11_1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/kvm-mips into HEAD
KVM: MIPS: GVA/GPA page tables, dirty logging, SYNC_MMU etc

Numerous MIPS KVM fixes, improvements, and features for 4.11, many of
which continue to pave the way for VZ support, the most interesting of
which are:

 - Add GVA->HPA page tables for T&E, to cache GVA mappings.
 - Generate fast-path TLB refill exception handler which loads host TLB
   entries from GVA page table, avoiding repeated guest memory
   translation and guest TLB lookups.
 - Use uaccess macros when T&E needs to access guest memory, which with
   GVA page tables and the Linux TLB refill handler improves robustness
   against TLB faults and fixes EVA hosts.
 - Use BadInstr/BadInstrP registers when available to obtain instruction
   encodings after a synchronous trap.
 - Add GPA->HPA page tables to replace the inflexible linear array,
   allowing for multiple sparsely arranged memory regions.
 - Properly implement dirty page logging.
 - Add KVM_CAP_SYNC_MMU support so that changes in GPA mappings become
   effective in guests even if they are already running, allowing for
   copy-on-write, KSM, idle page tracking, swapping, and guest memory
   ballooning.
 - Add KVM_CAP_READONLY_MEM support, so writes to specified memory
   regions are treated as MMIO.
 - Implement proper CP0_EBase support in T&E.
 - Expose a few more missing CP0 registers to userland.
 - Add KVM_CAP_NR_VCPUS and KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPUS support, and allow up to 8
   VCPUs to be created in a VM.
 - Various cleanups and dropping of dead and duplicated code.
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virtual')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt10
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diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
index f1945d8cbccb..e4f2cdcf78eb 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
@@ -2061,6 +2061,8 @@ registers, find a list below:
   MIPS  | KVM_REG_MIPS_LO               | 64
   MIPS  | KVM_REG_MIPS_PC               | 64
   MIPS  | KVM_REG_MIPS_CP0_INDEX        | 32
+  MIPS  | KVM_REG_MIPS_CP0_ENTRYLO0     | 64
+  MIPS  | KVM_REG_MIPS_CP0_ENTRYLO1     | 64
   MIPS  | KVM_REG_MIPS_CP0_CONTEXT      | 64
   MIPS  | KVM_REG_MIPS_CP0_USERLOCAL    | 64
   MIPS  | KVM_REG_MIPS_CP0_PAGEMASK     | 32
@@ -2071,9 +2073,11 @@ registers, find a list below:
   MIPS  | KVM_REG_MIPS_CP0_ENTRYHI      | 64
   MIPS  | KVM_REG_MIPS_CP0_COMPARE      | 32
   MIPS  | KVM_REG_MIPS_CP0_STATUS       | 32
+  MIPS  | KVM_REG_MIPS_CP0_INTCTL       | 32
   MIPS  | KVM_REG_MIPS_CP0_CAUSE        | 32
   MIPS  | KVM_REG_MIPS_CP0_EPC          | 64
   MIPS  | KVM_REG_MIPS_CP0_PRID         | 32
+  MIPS  | KVM_REG_MIPS_CP0_EBASE        | 64
   MIPS  | KVM_REG_MIPS_CP0_CONFIG       | 32
   MIPS  | KVM_REG_MIPS_CP0_CONFIG1      | 32
   MIPS  | KVM_REG_MIPS_CP0_CONFIG2      | 32
@@ -2148,6 +2152,12 @@ patterns depending on whether they're 32-bit or 64-bit registers:
   0x7020 0000 0001 00 <reg:5> <sel:3>   (32-bit)
   0x7030 0000 0001 00 <reg:5> <sel:3>   (64-bit)
 
+Note: KVM_REG_MIPS_CP0_ENTRYLO0 and KVM_REG_MIPS_CP0_ENTRYLO1 are the MIPS64
+versions of the EntryLo registers regardless of the word size of the host
+hardware, host kernel, guest, and whether XPA is present in the guest, i.e.
+with the RI and XI bits (if they exist) in bits 63 and 62 respectively, and
+the PFNX field starting at bit 30.
+
 MIPS KVM control registers (see above) have the following id bit patterns:
   0x7030 0000 0002 <reg:16>