KVM: Add KVM_EXIT_SYSTEM_EVENT to user space API header

Currently, we don't have an exit reason to notify user space about
a system-level event (for e.g. system reset or shutdown) triggered
by the VCPU. This patch adds exit reason KVM_EXIT_SYSTEM_EVENT for
this purpose. We can also inform user space about the 'type' and
architecture specific 'flags' of a system-level event using the
kvm_run structure.

This newly added KVM_EXIT_SYSTEM_EVENT will be used by KVM ARM/ARM64
in-kernel PSCI v0.2 support to reset/shutdown VMs.

Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar <pranavkumar@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>

diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
index 556d056..6a5de56 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
@@ -2740,6 +2740,21 @@ It gets triggered whenever both KVM_CAP_PPC_EPR are enabled and an
 external interrupt has just been delivered into the guest. User space
 should put the acknowledged interrupt vector into the 'epr' field.
 
+               /* KVM_EXIT_SYSTEM_EVENT */
+               struct {
+#define KVM_SYSTEM_EVENT_SHUTDOWN       1
+#define KVM_SYSTEM_EVENT_RESET          2
+                       __u32 type;
+                       __u64 flags;
+               } system_event;
+
+If exit_reason is KVM_EXIT_SYSTEM_EVENT then the vcpu has triggered
+a system-level event using some architecture specific mechanism (hypercall
+or some special instruction). In case of ARM/ARM64, this is triggered using
+HVC instruction based PSCI call from the vcpu. The 'type' field describes
+the system-level event type. The 'flags' field describes architecture
+specific flags for the system-level event.
+
                /* Fix the size of the union. */
                char padding[256];
        };

diff --cc include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
Simple merge