linux/Documentation/virtual/kvm
Paul Mackerras 3214d01f13 KVM: PPC: Book3S: Provide information about hardware/firmware CVE workarounds
This adds a new ioctl, KVM_PPC_GET_CPU_CHAR, that gives userspace
information about the underlying machine's level of vulnerability
to the recently announced vulnerabilities CVE-2017-5715,
CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5754, and whether the machine provides
instructions to assist software to work around the vulnerabilities.

The ioctl returns two u64 words describing characteristics of the
CPU and required software behaviour respectively, plus two mask
words which indicate which bits have been filled in by the kernel,
for extensibility.  The bit definitions are the same as for the
new H_GET_CPU_CHARACTERISTICS hypercall.

There is also a new capability, KVM_CAP_PPC_GET_CPU_CHAR, which
indicates whether the new ioctl is available.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
2018-01-19 15:17:01 +11:00
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arm arm/arm64: Add hyp-stub API documentation 2017-04-09 07:49:36 -07:00
devices GICv4 Support for KVM/ARM for v4.15 2017-11-17 13:20:01 +01:00
00-INDEX KVM: Add halt polling documentation 2016-11-28 11:48:47 +11:00
api.txt KVM: PPC: Book3S: Provide information about hardware/firmware CVE workarounds 2018-01-19 15:17:01 +11:00
cpuid.txt Documentation/kvm: Update cpuid documentation for steal time and pv eoi 2013-09-24 19:12:16 +02:00
halt-polling.txt KVM: Add halt polling documentation 2016-11-28 11:48:47 +11:00
hypercalls.txt KVM: MIPS: Implement HYPCALL emulation 2017-03-28 14:53:33 +01:00
locking.txt kvm: x86: mmu: Update documentation for fast page fault mechanism 2017-01-09 14:46:12 +01:00
mmu.txt kvm: x86: mmu: allow A/D bits to be disabled in an mmu 2017-07-03 11:19:54 +02:00
msr.txt KVM: async_pf: Let guest support delivery of async_pf from guest mode 2017-07-14 14:26:16 +02:00
nested-vmx.txt KVM: nVMX: Documentation 2011-07-12 13:15:22 +03:00
ppc-pv.txt Doc:kvm: Fix typo in Doc/virtual/kvm 2015-10-11 15:35:23 -06:00
review-checklist.txt docs: fix locations of several documents that got moved 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
s390-diag.txt KVM: s390: add documentation for diag 501 2014-04-22 13:24:51 +02:00
timekeeping.txt KVM: doc: Fix typo in doc/virtual/kvm 2013-12-31 17:24:54 -02:00
vcpu-requests.rst KVM: Add documentation for VCPU requests 2017-06-04 16:53:00 +02:00