Interrupt injection has changed a lot for protected guests, as KVM can't access the cpus' lowcores. New fields in the state description, like the interrupt injection control, and masked values safeguard the guest from KVM. Let's add some documentation to the interrupt injection basics for protected guests. Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/virtual/kvm/s390-pv.txt | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/s390-pv.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/s390-pv.txt index 86ed95f36759..e09f2dc5f164 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/s390-pv.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/s390-pv.txt @@ -21,3 +21,30 @@ normally needed to be able to run a VM, some changes have been made in SIE behavior and fields have different meaning for a PVM. SIE exits are minimized as much as possible to improve speed and reduce exposed guest state. + + +Interrupt injection: + +Interrupt injection is safeguarded by the Ultravisor and, as KVM lost +access to the VCPUs' lowcores, is handled via the format 4 state +description. + +Machine check, external, IO and restart interruptions each can be +injected on SIE entry via a bit in the interrupt injection control +field (offset 0x54). If the guest cpu is not enabled for the interrupt +at the time of injection, a validity interception is recognized. The +interrupt's data is transported via parts of the interception data +block. + +Program and Service Call exceptions have another layer of +safeguarding, they are only injectable, when instructions have +intercepted into KVM and such an exception can be an emulation result. + + +Mask notification interceptions: +As a replacement for the lctl(g) and lpsw(e) interception, two new +interception codes have been introduced. One which tells us that CRs +0, 6 or 14 have been changed and therefore interrupt masking might +have changed. And one for PSW bit 13 changes. The CRs and the PSW in +the state description only contain the mask bits and no further info +like the current instruction address. -- 2.20.1
