On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 02:23:59PM +0530, Raghavendra K T wrote: > From: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Thanks Alex for KVM_HC_FEATURES inputs and Jan for VAPIC_POLL_IRQ, > and Peter (HPA) for suggesting hypercall ABI addition. > > Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Please have a closer look at Hypercall ABI newly added > > Changes since last post: > - Added hypercall ABI (Peter) > - made KVM_HC_VAPIC_POLL_IRQ active explicitly (Randy) > > TODO: We need to add history details of each hypercall as suggested by HPA, > which I could not trace easily. Hope it is easy for hypercall authors > > Documentation/virtual/hypercalls.txt | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 Documentation/virtual/hypercalls.txt > > diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/hypercalls.txt b/Documentation/virtual/hypercalls.txt > new file mode 100644 > index 0000000..caffc08 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/Documentation/virtual/hypercalls.txt > @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ > +Hypercall ABI: > +============= > +A brief look at calling conventions of X86, S390 and PPC > +X86: > + KVM Hypercalls have a three-byte sequence of either the vmrun or the vmmrun > + instruction. The hypervisor can replace it with instructions that are > + guaranteed to be supported. vmcall. > + > + Up to four arguments may be passed in rbx, rcx, rdx, and rsi respectively. > + The hypercall number should be placed in rax and the return value will be > + placed in rax. No other registers will be clobbered unless explicitly stated > + by the particular hypercall. It depends on the hypercall. It happens that current hypercalls use the four registers, but its not an ABI (hyper-v hypercalls uses r8, for example). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
