4 KVM Hypercalls have a three-byte sequence of either the vmcall or the vmmcall
5 instruction. The hypervisor can replace it with instructions that are
6 guaranteed to be supported.
8 Up to four arguments may be passed in rbx, rcx, rdx, and rsi respectively.
9 The hypercall number should be placed in rax and the return value will be
10 placed in rax. No other registers will be clobbered unless explicitly stated
11 by the particular hypercall.
14 R2-R7 are used for parameters 1-6. In addition, R1 is used for hypercall
15 number. The return value is written to R2.
17 S390 uses diagnose instruction as hypercall (0x500) along with hypercall
20 For further information on the S390 diagnose call as supported by KVM,
21 refer to Documentation/virtual/kvm/s390-diag.txt.
24 It uses R3-R10 and hypercall number in R11. R4-R11 are used as output registers.
25 Return value is placed in R3.
27 KVM hypercalls uses 4 byte opcode, that are patched with 'hypercall-instructions'
28 property inside the device tree's /hypervisor node.
29 For more information refer to Documentation/virtual/kvm/ppc-pv.txt
32 KVM hypercalls use the HYPCALL instruction with code 0 and the hypercall
33 number in $2 (v0). Up to four arguments may be placed in $4-$7 (a0-a3) and
34 the return value is placed in $2 (v0).
36 KVM Hypercalls Documentation
37 ===========================
38 The template for each hypercall is:
41 3. Status (deprecated, obsolete, active)
44 1. KVM_HC_VAPIC_POLL_IRQ
45 ------------------------
48 Purpose: Trigger guest exit so that the host can check for pending
49 interrupts on reentry.
52 ------------------------
55 Purpose: Support MMU operations such as writing to PTE,
56 flushing TLB, release PT.
59 ------------------------
62 Purpose: Expose hypercall availability to the guest. On x86 platforms, cpuid
63 used to enumerate which hypercalls are available. On PPC, either device tree
64 based lookup ( which is also what EPAPR dictates) OR KVM specific enumeration
65 mechanism (which is this hypercall) can be used.
67 4. KVM_HC_PPC_MAP_MAGIC_PAGE
68 ------------------------
71 Purpose: To enable communication between the hypervisor and guest there is a
72 shared page that contains parts of supervisor visible register state.
73 The guest can map this shared page to access its supervisor register through
74 memory using this hypercall.
77 ------------------------
80 Purpose: Hypercall used to wakeup a vcpu from HLT state
81 Usage example : A vcpu of a paravirtualized guest that is busywaiting in guest
82 kernel mode for an event to occur (ex: a spinlock to become available) can
83 execute HLT instruction once it has busy-waited for more than a threshold
84 time-interval. Execution of HLT instruction would cause the hypervisor to put
85 the vcpu to sleep until occurrence of an appropriate event. Another vcpu of the
86 same guest can wakeup the sleeping vcpu by issuing KVM_HC_KICK_CPU hypercall,
87 specifying APIC ID (a1) of the vcpu to be woken up. An additional argument (a0)
88 is used in the hypercall for future use.
91 6. KVM_HC_CLOCK_PAIRING
92 ------------------------
95 Purpose: Hypercall used to synchronize host and guest clocks.
98 a0: guest physical address where host copies
99 "struct kvm_clock_offset" structure.
101 a1: clock_type, ATM only KVM_CLOCK_PAIRING_WALLCLOCK (0)
102 is supported (corresponding to the host's CLOCK_REALTIME clock).
104 struct kvm_clock_pairing {
113 * sec: seconds from clock_type clock.
114 * nsec: nanoseconds from clock_type clock.
115 * tsc: guest TSC value used to calculate sec/nsec pair
116 * flags: flags, unused (0) at the moment.
118 The hypercall lets a guest compute a precise timestamp across
119 host and guest. The guest can use the returned TSC value to
120 compute the CLOCK_REALTIME for its clock, at the same instant.
122 Returns KVM_EOPNOTSUPP if the host does not use TSC clocksource,
123 or if clock type is different than KVM_CLOCK_PAIRING_WALLCLOCK.
126 ------------------------
129 Purpose: Send IPIs to multiple vCPUs.
131 a0: lower part of the bitmap of destination APIC IDs
132 a1: higher part of the bitmap of destination APIC IDs
133 a2: the lowest APIC ID in bitmap
136 The hypercall lets a guest send multicast IPIs, with at most 128
137 128 destinations per hypercall in 64-bit mode and 64 vCPUs per
138 hypercall in 32-bit mode. The destinations are represented by a
139 bitmap contained in the first two arguments (a0 and a1). Bit 0 of
140 a0 corresponds to the APIC ID in the third argument (a2), bit 1
141 corresponds to the APIC ID a2+1, and so on.
143 Returns the number of CPUs to which the IPIs were delivered successfully.