kvm: Add KVM_GET_EMULATED_CPUID

[~andy/linux] / Documentation / virtual / kvm / api.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
index a89a5ee0b9405db4ab99a5e71f678f22ce1886e3..488964414f04c5ede189de56963081460c22e7d0 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
@@ -1122,9 +1122,9 @@ struct kvm_cpuid2 {
        struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 entries[0];
 };
 
-#define KVM_CPUID_FLAG_SIGNIFCANT_INDEX 1
-#define KVM_CPUID_FLAG_STATEFUL_FUNC    2
-#define KVM_CPUID_FLAG_STATE_READ_NEXT  4
+#define KVM_CPUID_FLAG_SIGNIFCANT_INDEX                BIT(0)
+#define KVM_CPUID_FLAG_STATEFUL_FUNC           BIT(1)
+#define KVM_CPUID_FLAG_STATE_READ_NEXT         BIT(2)
 
 struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 {
        __u32 function;
@@ -2684,6 +2684,77 @@ and usually define the validity of a groups of registers. (e.g. one bit
 };
 
 
+4.81 KVM_GET_EMULATED_CPUID
+
+Capability: KVM_CAP_EXT_EMUL_CPUID
+Architectures: x86
+Type: system ioctl
+Parameters: struct kvm_cpuid2 (in/out)
+Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
+
+struct kvm_cpuid2 {
+       __u32 nent;
+       __u32 flags;
+       struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 entries[0];
+};
+
+The member 'flags' is used for passing flags from userspace.
+
+#define KVM_CPUID_FLAG_SIGNIFCANT_INDEX                BIT(0)
+#define KVM_CPUID_FLAG_STATEFUL_FUNC           BIT(1)
+#define KVM_CPUID_FLAG_STATE_READ_NEXT         BIT(2)
+
+struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 {
+       __u32 function;
+       __u32 index;
+       __u32 flags;
+       __u32 eax;
+       __u32 ebx;
+       __u32 ecx;
+       __u32 edx;
+       __u32 padding[3];
+};
+
+This ioctl returns x86 cpuid features which are emulated by
+kvm.Userspace can use the information returned by this ioctl to query
+which features are emulated by kvm instead of being present natively.
+
+Userspace invokes KVM_GET_EMULATED_CPUID by passing a kvm_cpuid2
+structure with the 'nent' field indicating the number of entries in
+the variable-size array 'entries'. If the number of entries is too low
+to describe the cpu capabilities, an error (E2BIG) is returned. If the
+number is too high, the 'nent' field is adjusted and an error (ENOMEM)
+is returned. If the number is just right, the 'nent' field is adjusted
+to the number of valid entries in the 'entries' array, which is then
+filled.
+
+The entries returned are the set CPUID bits of the respective features
+which kvm emulates, as returned by the CPUID instruction, with unknown
+or unsupported feature bits cleared.
+
+Features like x2apic, for example, may not be present in the host cpu
+but are exposed by kvm in KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID because they can be
+emulated efficiently and thus not included here.
+
+The fields in each entry are defined as follows:
+
+  function: the eax value used to obtain the entry
+  index: the ecx value used to obtain the entry (for entries that are
+         affected by ecx)
+  flags: an OR of zero or more of the following:
+        KVM_CPUID_FLAG_SIGNIFCANT_INDEX:
+           if the index field is valid
+        KVM_CPUID_FLAG_STATEFUL_FUNC:
+           if cpuid for this function returns different values for successive
+           invocations; there will be several entries with the same function,
+           all with this flag set
+        KVM_CPUID_FLAG_STATE_READ_NEXT:
+           for KVM_CPUID_FLAG_STATEFUL_FUNC entries, set if this entry is
+           the first entry to be read by a cpu
+   eax, ebx, ecx, edx: the values returned by the cpuid instruction for
+         this function/index combination
+
+
 6. Capabilities that can be enabled
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