[PATCH v2 1/6] powerpc: Document APIv2 KVM hcall spec for Hostwide counters
Gautam Menghani
gautam at linux.ibm.com
Sat Jan 18 02:38:21 AEDT 2025
On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 08:09:42PM +0530, Vaibhav Jain wrote:
> Update kvm-nested APIv2 documentation to include five new
> Guest-State-Elements to fetch the hostwide counters. These counters are
> per L1-Lpar and indicate the amount of Heap/Page-table memory allocated,
> available and Page-table memory reclaimed for all L2-Guests active
> instances
>
> Cc: linux-doc at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy at linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav at linux.ibm.com>
>
> ---
> Changelog
>
> v1->v2:
> * Reworded section on GSID [Gautam]
> ---
> Documentation/arch/powerpc/kvm-nested.rst | 40 +++++++++++++++++------
> 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/arch/powerpc/kvm-nested.rst b/Documentation/arch/powerpc/kvm-nested.rst
> index 5defd13cc6c1..8e468a4db0dc 100644
> --- a/Documentation/arch/powerpc/kvm-nested.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/arch/powerpc/kvm-nested.rst
> @@ -208,13 +208,9 @@ associated values for each ID in the GSB::
> flags:
> Bit 0: getGuestWideState: Request state of the Guest instead
> of an individual VCPU.
> - Bit 1: takeOwnershipOfVcpuState Indicate the L1 is taking
> - over ownership of the VCPU state and that the L0 can free
> - the storage holding the state. The VCPU state will need to
> - be returned to the Hypervisor via H_GUEST_SET_STATE prior
> - to H_GUEST_RUN_VCPU being called for this VCPU. The data
> - returned in the dataBuffer is in a Hypervisor internal
> - format.
> + Bit 1: getHostWideState: Request stats of the Host. This causes
> + the guestId and vcpuId parameters to be ignored and attempting
> + to get the VCPU/Guest state will cause an error.
> Bits 2-63: Reserved
> guestId: ID obtained from H_GUEST_CREATE
> vcpuId: ID of the vCPU pass to H_GUEST_CREATE_VCPU
> @@ -406,9 +402,10 @@ the partition like the timebase offset and partition scoped page
> table information.
>
> +--------+-------+----+--------+----------------------------------+
> -| ID | Size | RW | Thread | Details |
> -| | Bytes | | Guest | |
> -| | | | Scope | |
> +| ID | Size | RW |(H)ost | Details |
> +| | Bytes | |(G)uest | |
> +| | | |(T)hread| |
> +| | | |Scope | |
> +========+=======+====+========+==================================+
> | 0x0000 | | RW | TG | NOP element |
> +--------+-------+----+--------+----------------------------------+
> @@ -434,6 +431,29 @@ table information.
> | | | | |- 0x8 Table size. |
> +--------+-------+----+--------+----------------------------------+
> | 0x0007-| | | | Reserved |
> +| 0x07FF | | | | |
> ++--------+-------+----+--------+----------------------------------+
> +| 0x0800 | 0x08 | R | H | Current usage in bytes of the |
> +| | | | | L0's Guest Management Space |
> +| | | | | for an L1-Lpar. |
> ++--------+-------+----+--------+----------------------------------+
> +| 0x0801 | 0x08 | R | H | Max bytes available in the |
> +| | | | | L0's Guest Management Space for |
> +| | | | | an L1-Lpar |
> ++--------+-------+----+--------+----------------------------------+
> +| 0x0802 | 0x08 | R | H | Current usage in bytes of the |
> +| | | | | L0's Guest Page Table Management |
> +| | | | | Space for an L1-Lpar |
> ++--------+-------+----+--------+----------------------------------+
> +| 0x0803 | 0x08 | R | H | Max bytes available in the L0's |
> +| | | | | Guest Page Table Management |
> +| | | | | Space for an L1-Lpar |
> ++--------+-------+----+--------+----------------------------------+
> +| 0x0804 | 0x08 | R | H | Amount of reclaimed L0 Guest's |
> +| | | | | Page Table Management Space due |
> +| | | | | to overcommit for an L1-Lpar |
Nit s/Amount of reclaimed/Space in bytes reclaimed in
> ++--------+-------+----+--------+----------------------------------+
> +| 0x0805-| | | | Reserved |
> | 0x0BFF | | | | |
> +--------+-------+----+--------+----------------------------------+
> | 0x0C00 | 0x10 | RW | T |Run vCPU Input Buffer: |
> --
> 2.47.1
>
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