From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-9.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFE4BC32750 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2019 14:50:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0A91216C8 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2019 14:50:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2436753AbfHBOue (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Aug 2019 10:50:34 -0400 Received: from foss.arm.com ([217.140.110.172]:53196 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2387625AbfHBOuc (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Aug 2019 10:50:32 -0400 Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5E831597; Fri, 2 Aug 2019 07:50:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from e112269-lin.arm.com (e112269-lin.cambridge.arm.com [10.1.196.133]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0B7773F575; Fri, 2 Aug 2019 07:50:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Steven Price Cc: Steven Price , Catalin Marinas , Marc Zyngier , Paolo Bonzini , =?UTF-8?q?Radim=20Kr=C4=8Dm=C3=A1=C5=99?= , Russell King , Will Deacon , James Morse , Julien Thierry , Suzuki K Pouloze , kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 1/9] KVM: arm64: Document PV-time interface Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2019 15:50:09 +0100 Message-Id: <20190802145017.42543-2-steven.price@arm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.20.1 In-Reply-To: <20190802145017.42543-1-steven.price@arm.com> References: <20190802145017.42543-1-steven.price@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Introduce a paravirtualization interface for KVM/arm64 based on the "Arm Paravirtualized Time for Arm-Base Systems" specification DEN 0057A. This only adds the details about "Stolen Time" as the details of "Live Physical Time" have not been fully agreed. User space can specify a reserved area of memory for the guest and inform KVM to populate the memory with information on time that the host kernel has stolen from the guest. A hypercall interface is provided for the guest to interrogate the hypervisor's support for this interface and the location of the shared memory structures. Signed-off-by: Steven Price --- Documentation/virtual/kvm/arm/pvtime.txt | 107 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 107 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/virtual/kvm/arm/pvtime.txt diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/arm/pvtime.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/arm/pvtime.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..e6ae9799e1d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/arm/pvtime.txt @@ -0,0 +1,107 @@ +Paravirtualized time support for arm64 +====================================== + +Arm specification DEN0057/A defined a standard for paravirtualised time +support for Aarch64 guests: + +https://developer.arm.com/docs/den0057/a + +KVM/Arm64 implements the stolen time part of this specification by providing +some hypervisor service calls to support a paravirtualized guest obtaining a +view of the amount of time stolen from its execution. + +Two new SMCCC compatible hypercalls are defined: + +PV_FEATURES 0xC5000020 +PV_TIME_ST 0xC5000022 + +These are only available in the SMC64/HVC64 calling convention as +paravirtualized time is not available to 32 bit Arm guests. + +PV_FEATURES + Function ID: (uint32) : 0xC5000020 + PV_func_id: (uint32) : Either PV_TIME_LPT or PV_TIME_ST + Return value: (int32) : NOT_SUPPORTED (-1) or SUCCESS (0) if the relevant + PV-time feature is supported by the hypervisor. + +PV_TIME_ST + Function ID: (uint32) : 0xC5000022 + Return value: (int64) : IPA of the stolen time data structure for this + (V)CPU. On failure: + NOT_SUPPORTED (-1) + +Stolen Time +----------- + +The structure pointed to by the PV_TIME_ST hypercall is as follows: + + Field | Byte Length | Byte Offset | Description + ----------- | ----------- | ----------- | -------------------------- + Revision | 4 | 0 | Must be 0 for version 0.1 + Attributes | 4 | 4 | Must be 0 + Stolen time | 8 | 8 | Stolen time in unsigned + | | | nanoseconds indicating how + | | | much time this VCPU thread + | | | was involuntarily not + | | | running on a physical CPU. + +The structure will be updated by the hypervisor periodically as time is stolen +from the VCPU. It will be present within a reserved region of the normal +memory given to the guest. The guest should not attempt to write into this +memory. There is a structure by VCPU of the guest. + +User space interface +==================== + +User space can request that KVM provide the paravirtualized time interface to +a guest by creating a KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_PV_TIME device, for example: + + struct kvm_create_device pvtime_device = { + .type = KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_PV_TIME, + .attr = 0, + .flags = 0, + }; + + pvtime_fd = ioctl(vm_fd, KVM_CREATE_DEVICE, &pvtime_device); + +The guest IPA of the structures must be given to KVM. This is the base address +of an array of stolen time structures (one for each VCPU). For example: + + struct kvm_device_attr st_base = { + .group = KVM_DEV_ARM_PV_TIME_PADDR, + .attr = KVM_DEV_ARM_PV_TIME_ST, + .addr = (u64)(unsigned long)&st_paddr + }; + + ioctl(pvtime_fd, KVM_SET_DEVICE_ATTR, &st_base); + +For migration (or save/restore) of a guest it is necessary to save the contents +of the shared page(s) and later restore them. KVM_DEV_ARM_PV_TIME_STATE_SIZE +provides the size of this data and KVM_DEV_ARM_PV_TIME_STATE allows the state +to be read/written. + +It is also necessary for the physical address to be set identically when +restoring. + + void *save_state(int fd, u64 attr, u32 *size) { + struct kvm_device_attr get_size = { + .group = KVM_DEV_ARM_PV_TIME_STATE_SIZE, + .attr = attr, + .addr = (u64)(unsigned long)size + }; + + ioctl(fd, KVM_GET_DEVICE_ATTR, get_size); + + void *buffer = malloc(*size); + + struct kvm_device_attr get_state = { + .group = KVM_DEV_ARM_PV_TIME_STATE, + .attr = attr, + .addr = (u64)(unsigned long)size + }; + + ioctl(fd, KVM_GET_DEVICE_ATTR, buffer); + } + + void *st_state = save_state(pvtime_fd, KVM_DEV_ARM_PV_TIME_ST, &st_size); + -- 2.20.1 From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-9.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CFF0C433FF for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2019 14:50:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mm01.cs.columbia.edu (mm01.cs.columbia.edu [128.59.11.253]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50388216C8 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2019 14:50:36 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 50388216C8 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=arm.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=kvmarm-bounces@lists.cs.columbia.edu Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mm01.cs.columbia.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00ABC4A536; Fri, 2 Aug 2019 10:50:36 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: at lists.cs.columbia.edu Received: from mm01.cs.columbia.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mm01.cs.columbia.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id V8fQQlPm4X8U; Fri, 2 Aug 2019 10:50:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mm01.cs.columbia.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mm01.cs.columbia.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7900E4A546; Fri, 2 Aug 2019 10:50:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mm01.cs.columbia.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF0D64A540 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2019 10:50:33 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: at lists.cs.columbia.edu Received: from mm01.cs.columbia.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mm01.cs.columbia.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Rqx7XNyOTdWc for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2019 10:50:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from foss.arm.com (foss.arm.com [217.140.110.172]) by mm01.cs.columbia.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B5A74A4FD for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2019 10:50:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5E831597; Fri, 2 Aug 2019 07:50:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from e112269-lin.arm.com (e112269-lin.cambridge.arm.com [10.1.196.133]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0B7773F575; Fri, 2 Aug 2019 07:50:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Steven Price To: Subject: [PATCH 1/9] KVM: arm64: Document PV-time interface Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2019 15:50:09 +0100 Message-Id: <20190802145017.42543-2-steven.price@arm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.20.1 In-Reply-To: <20190802145017.42543-1-steven.price@arm.com> References: <20190802145017.42543-1-steven.price@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Catalin Marinas , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Russell King , Steven Price , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Marc Zyngier , Paolo Bonzini , Will Deacon , kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu X-BeenThere: kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Where KVM/ARM decisions are made List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: kvmarm-bounces@lists.cs.columbia.edu Sender: kvmarm-bounces@lists.cs.columbia.edu Introduce a paravirtualization interface for KVM/arm64 based on the "Arm Paravirtualized Time for Arm-Base Systems" specification DEN 0057A. This only adds the details about "Stolen Time" as the details of "Live Physical Time" have not been fully agreed. User space can specify a reserved area of memory for the guest and inform KVM to populate the memory with information on time that the host kernel has stolen from the guest. A hypercall interface is provided for the guest to interrogate the hypervisor's support for this interface and the location of the shared memory structures. Signed-off-by: Steven Price --- Documentation/virtual/kvm/arm/pvtime.txt | 107 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 107 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/virtual/kvm/arm/pvtime.txt diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/arm/pvtime.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/arm/pvtime.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..e6ae9799e1d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/arm/pvtime.txt @@ -0,0 +1,107 @@ +Paravirtualized time support for arm64 +====================================== + +Arm specification DEN0057/A defined a standard for paravirtualised time +support for Aarch64 guests: + +https://developer.arm.com/docs/den0057/a + +KVM/Arm64 implements the stolen time part of this specification by providing +some hypervisor service calls to support a paravirtualized guest obtaining a +view of the amount of time stolen from its execution. + +Two new SMCCC compatible hypercalls are defined: + +PV_FEATURES 0xC5000020 +PV_TIME_ST 0xC5000022 + +These are only available in the SMC64/HVC64 calling convention as +paravirtualized time is not available to 32 bit Arm guests. + +PV_FEATURES + Function ID: (uint32) : 0xC5000020 + PV_func_id: (uint32) : Either PV_TIME_LPT or PV_TIME_ST + Return value: (int32) : NOT_SUPPORTED (-1) or SUCCESS (0) if the relevant + PV-time feature is supported by the hypervisor. + +PV_TIME_ST + Function ID: (uint32) : 0xC5000022 + Return value: (int64) : IPA of the stolen time data structure for this + (V)CPU. On failure: + NOT_SUPPORTED (-1) + +Stolen Time +----------- + +The structure pointed to by the PV_TIME_ST hypercall is as follows: + + Field | Byte Length | Byte Offset | Description + ----------- | ----------- | ----------- | -------------------------- + Revision | 4 | 0 | Must be 0 for version 0.1 + Attributes | 4 | 4 | Must be 0 + Stolen time | 8 | 8 | Stolen time in unsigned + | | | nanoseconds indicating how + | | | much time this VCPU thread + | | | was involuntarily not + | | | running on a physical CPU. + +The structure will be updated by the hypervisor periodically as time is stolen +from the VCPU. It will be present within a reserved region of the normal +memory given to the guest. The guest should not attempt to write into this +memory. There is a structure by VCPU of the guest. + +User space interface +==================== + +User space can request that KVM provide the paravirtualized time interface to +a guest by creating a KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_PV_TIME device, for example: + + struct kvm_create_device pvtime_device = { + .type = KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_PV_TIME, + .attr = 0, + .flags = 0, + }; + + pvtime_fd = ioctl(vm_fd, KVM_CREATE_DEVICE, &pvtime_device); + +The guest IPA of the structures must be given to KVM. This is the base address +of an array of stolen time structures (one for each VCPU). For example: + + struct kvm_device_attr st_base = { + .group = KVM_DEV_ARM_PV_TIME_PADDR, + .attr = KVM_DEV_ARM_PV_TIME_ST, + .addr = (u64)(unsigned long)&st_paddr + }; + + ioctl(pvtime_fd, KVM_SET_DEVICE_ATTR, &st_base); + +For migration (or save/restore) of a guest it is necessary to save the contents +of the shared page(s) and later restore them. KVM_DEV_ARM_PV_TIME_STATE_SIZE +provides the size of this data and KVM_DEV_ARM_PV_TIME_STATE allows the state +to be read/written. + +It is also necessary for the physical address to be set identically when +restoring. + + void *save_state(int fd, u64 attr, u32 *size) { + struct kvm_device_attr get_size = { + .group = KVM_DEV_ARM_PV_TIME_STATE_SIZE, + .attr = attr, + .addr = (u64)(unsigned long)size + }; + + ioctl(fd, KVM_GET_DEVICE_ATTR, get_size); + + void *buffer = malloc(*size); + + struct kvm_device_attr get_state = { + .group = KVM_DEV_ARM_PV_TIME_STATE, + .attr = attr, + .addr = (u64)(unsigned long)size + }; + + ioctl(fd, KVM_GET_DEVICE_ATTR, buffer); + } + + void *st_state = save_state(pvtime_fd, KVM_DEV_ARM_PV_TIME_ST, &st_size); + -- 2.20.1 _______________________________________________ kvmarm mailing list kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/kvmarm From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-9.8 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC2ACC32754 for ; 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Fri, 2 Aug 2019 07:50:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Steven Price To: Subject: [PATCH 1/9] KVM: arm64: Document PV-time interface Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2019 15:50:09 +0100 Message-Id: <20190802145017.42543-2-steven.price@arm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.20.1 In-Reply-To: <20190802145017.42543-1-steven.price@arm.com> References: <20190802145017.42543-1-steven.price@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20190802_075032_345000_FFAF13D4 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 17.88 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, =?UTF-8?q?Radim=20Kr=C4=8Dm=C3=A1=C5=99?= , Catalin Marinas , Suzuki K Pouloze , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Russell King , Steven Price , James Morse , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Marc Zyngier , Paolo Bonzini , Will Deacon , kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, Julien Thierry Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+infradead-linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org Introduce a paravirtualization interface for KVM/arm64 based on the "Arm Paravirtualized Time for Arm-Base Systems" specification DEN 0057A. This only adds the details about "Stolen Time" as the details of "Live Physical Time" have not been fully agreed. User space can specify a reserved area of memory for the guest and inform KVM to populate the memory with information on time that the host kernel has stolen from the guest. A hypercall interface is provided for the guest to interrogate the hypervisor's support for this interface and the location of the shared memory structures. Signed-off-by: Steven Price --- Documentation/virtual/kvm/arm/pvtime.txt | 107 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 107 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/virtual/kvm/arm/pvtime.txt diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/arm/pvtime.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/arm/pvtime.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..e6ae9799e1d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/arm/pvtime.txt @@ -0,0 +1,107 @@ +Paravirtualized time support for arm64 +====================================== + +Arm specification DEN0057/A defined a standard for paravirtualised time +support for Aarch64 guests: + +https://developer.arm.com/docs/den0057/a + +KVM/Arm64 implements the stolen time part of this specification by providing +some hypervisor service calls to support a paravirtualized guest obtaining a +view of the amount of time stolen from its execution. + +Two new SMCCC compatible hypercalls are defined: + +PV_FEATURES 0xC5000020 +PV_TIME_ST 0xC5000022 + +These are only available in the SMC64/HVC64 calling convention as +paravirtualized time is not available to 32 bit Arm guests. + +PV_FEATURES + Function ID: (uint32) : 0xC5000020 + PV_func_id: (uint32) : Either PV_TIME_LPT or PV_TIME_ST + Return value: (int32) : NOT_SUPPORTED (-1) or SUCCESS (0) if the relevant + PV-time feature is supported by the hypervisor. + +PV_TIME_ST + Function ID: (uint32) : 0xC5000022 + Return value: (int64) : IPA of the stolen time data structure for this + (V)CPU. On failure: + NOT_SUPPORTED (-1) + +Stolen Time +----------- + +The structure pointed to by the PV_TIME_ST hypercall is as follows: + + Field | Byte Length | Byte Offset | Description + ----------- | ----------- | ----------- | -------------------------- + Revision | 4 | 0 | Must be 0 for version 0.1 + Attributes | 4 | 4 | Must be 0 + Stolen time | 8 | 8 | Stolen time in unsigned + | | | nanoseconds indicating how + | | | much time this VCPU thread + | | | was involuntarily not + | | | running on a physical CPU. + +The structure will be updated by the hypervisor periodically as time is stolen +from the VCPU. It will be present within a reserved region of the normal +memory given to the guest. The guest should not attempt to write into this +memory. There is a structure by VCPU of the guest. + +User space interface +==================== + +User space can request that KVM provide the paravirtualized time interface to +a guest by creating a KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_PV_TIME device, for example: + + struct kvm_create_device pvtime_device = { + .type = KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_PV_TIME, + .attr = 0, + .flags = 0, + }; + + pvtime_fd = ioctl(vm_fd, KVM_CREATE_DEVICE, &pvtime_device); + +The guest IPA of the structures must be given to KVM. This is the base address +of an array of stolen time structures (one for each VCPU). For example: + + struct kvm_device_attr st_base = { + .group = KVM_DEV_ARM_PV_TIME_PADDR, + .attr = KVM_DEV_ARM_PV_TIME_ST, + .addr = (u64)(unsigned long)&st_paddr + }; + + ioctl(pvtime_fd, KVM_SET_DEVICE_ATTR, &st_base); + +For migration (or save/restore) of a guest it is necessary to save the contents +of the shared page(s) and later restore them. KVM_DEV_ARM_PV_TIME_STATE_SIZE +provides the size of this data and KVM_DEV_ARM_PV_TIME_STATE allows the state +to be read/written. + +It is also necessary for the physical address to be set identically when +restoring. + + void *save_state(int fd, u64 attr, u32 *size) { + struct kvm_device_attr get_size = { + .group = KVM_DEV_ARM_PV_TIME_STATE_SIZE, + .attr = attr, + .addr = (u64)(unsigned long)size + }; + + ioctl(fd, KVM_GET_DEVICE_ATTR, get_size); + + void *buffer = malloc(*size); + + struct kvm_device_attr get_state = { + .group = KVM_DEV_ARM_PV_TIME_STATE, + .attr = attr, + .addr = (u64)(unsigned long)size + }; + + ioctl(fd, KVM_GET_DEVICE_ATTR, buffer); + } + + void *st_state = save_state(pvtime_fd, KVM_DEV_ARM_PV_TIME_ST, &st_size); + -- 2.20.1 _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel