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diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst index 103f945959ed..42403dfe9496 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst @@ -6029,6 +6029,44 @@ delivery must be provided via the "reg_aen" struct. The "pad" and "reserved" fields may be used for future extensions and should be set to 0s by userspace. +4.138 KVM_ARM_SET_COUNTER_OFFSET +-------------------------------- + +:Capability: KVM_CAP_COUNTER_OFFSET +:Architectures: arm64 +:Type: vm ioctl +:Parameters: struct kvm_arm_counter_offset (in) +:Returns: 0 on success, < 0 on error + +This capability indicates that userspace is able to apply a single VM-wide +offset to both the virtual and physical counters as viewed by the guest +using the KVM_ARM_SET_CNT_OFFSET ioctl and the following data structure: + +:: + + struct kvm_arm_counter_offset { + __u64 counter_offset; + __u64 reserved; + }; + +The offset describes a number of counter cycles that are subtracted from +both virtual and physical counter views (similar to the effects of the +CNTVOFF_EL2 and CNTPOFF_EL2 system registers, but only global). The offset +always applies to all vcpus (already created or created after this ioctl) +for this VM. + +It is userspace's responsibility to compute the offset based, for example, +on previous values of the guest counters. + +Any value other than 0 for the "reserved" field may result in an error +(-EINVAL) being returned. This ioctl can also return -EBUSY if any vcpu +ioctl is issued concurrently. + +Note that using this ioctl results in KVM ignoring subsequent userspace +writes to the CNTVCT_EL0 and CNTPCT_EL0 registers using the SET_ONE_REG +interface. No error will be returned, but the resulting offset will not be +applied. + 5. The kvm_run structure ======================== |