[PATCH v3] KVM: PPC: Report single stepping capability

Fabiano Rosas farosas at linux.ibm.com
Thu Jun 20 02:01:27 AEST 2019


When calling the KVM_SET_GUEST_DEBUG ioctl, userspace might request
the next instruction to be single stepped via the
KVM_GUESTDBG_SINGLESTEP control bit of the kvm_guest_debug structure.

This patch adds the KVM_CAP_PPC_GUEST_DEBUG_SSTEP capability in order
to inform userspace about the state of single stepping support.

We currently don't have support for guest single stepping implemented
in Book3S HV so the capability is only present for Book3S PR and
BookE.

Signed-off-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas at linux.ibm.com>
---

v1 -> v2:
 - add capability description to Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt

v2 -> v3:
 - be explicit in the commit message about when the capability is
   present
 - remove unnecessary check for CONFIG_BOOKE

 Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 3 +++
 arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c        | 2 ++
 include/uapi/linux/kvm.h          | 1 +
 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
index ba6c42c576dd..a77643bfa917 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
@@ -2969,6 +2969,9 @@ can be determined by querying the KVM_CAP_GUEST_DEBUG_HW_BPS and
 KVM_CAP_GUEST_DEBUG_HW_WPS capabilities which return a positive number
 indicating the number of supported registers.

+For ppc, the KVM_CAP_PPC_GUEST_DEBUG_SSTEP capability indicates whether
+the single-step debug event (KVM_GUESTDBG_SINGLESTEP) is supported.
+
 When debug events exit the main run loop with the reason
 KVM_EXIT_DEBUG with the kvm_debug_exit_arch part of the kvm_run
 structure containing architecture specific debug information.
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
index 6d704ad2472b..bd0a73eaf7ba 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
@@ -527,6 +527,8 @@ int kvm_vm_ioctl_check_extension(struct kvm *kvm, long ext)
 	case KVM_CAP_IMMEDIATE_EXIT:
 		r = 1;
 		break;
+	case KVM_CAP_PPC_GUEST_DEBUG_SSTEP:
+		/* fall through */
 	case KVM_CAP_PPC_PAIRED_SINGLES:
 	case KVM_CAP_PPC_OSI:
 	case KVM_CAP_PPC_GET_PVINFO:
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
index 2fe12b40d503..cad9fcd90f39 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
@@ -993,6 +993,7 @@ struct kvm_ppc_resize_hpt {
 #define KVM_CAP_ARM_SVE 170
 #define KVM_CAP_ARM_PTRAUTH_ADDRESS 171
 #define KVM_CAP_ARM_PTRAUTH_GENERIC 172
+#define KVM_CAP_PPC_GUEST_DEBUG_SSTEP 173

 #ifdef KVM_CAP_IRQ_ROUTING

--
2.20.1



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