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authorEric Farman <farman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2014-06-09 10:57:26 -0400
committerChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>2015-03-06 13:49:33 +0100
commit68c557501b008515cb86c9a36c75f4e82e14a819 (patch)
tree43ae3a7fcfe7296550f0c95e72407a55a0901ad7 /Documentation/virtual
parent1f289a8429022f112be9817a81ff07308eb78a9c (diff)
KVM: s390: Allocate and save/restore vector registers
Define and allocate space for both the host and guest views of the vector registers for a given vcpu. The 32 vector registers occupy 128 bits each (512 bytes total), but architecturally are paired with 512 additional bytes of reserved space for future expansion. The kvm_sync_regs structs containing the registers are union'ed with 1024 bytes of padding in the common kvm_run struct. The addition of 1024 bytes of new register information clearly exceeds the existing union, so an expansion of that padding is required. When changing environments, we need to appropriately save and restore the vector registers viewed by both the host and guest, into and out of the sync_regs space. The floating point registers overlay the upper half of vector registers 0-15, so there's a bit of data duplication here that needs to be carefully avoided. Signed-off-by: Eric Farman <farman@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
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@@ -3248,3 +3248,13 @@ All other orders will be handled completely in user space.
Only privileged operation exceptions will be checked for in the kernel (or even
in the hardware prior to interception). If this capability is not enabled, the
old way of handling SIGP orders is used (partially in kernel and user space).
+
+7.3 KVM_CAP_S390_VECTOR_REGISTERS
+
+Architectures: s390
+Parameters: none
+Returns: 0 on success, negative value on error
+
+Allows use of the vector registers introduced with z13 processor, and
+provides for the synchronization between host and user space. Will
+return -EINVAL if the machine does not support vectors.