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Nikolay Nikolaev 5fc0e00291 Add vhost-user protocol documentation
This document describes the basic message format used by vhost-user
for communication over a unix domain socket. The protocol is based
on the existing ioctl interface used for the kernel version of vhost.

Signed-off-by: Antonios Motakis <a.motakis@virtualopensystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Nikolaev <n.nikolaev@virtualopensystems.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2014-06-19 18:44:18 +03:00
Igor Mammedov 3ef77acab2 acpi: memory hotplug ACPI hardware implementation
- implements QEMU hardware part of memory hotplug protocol
  described at "docs/specs/acpi_mem_hotplug.txt"
- handles only memory add notification event for now

Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2014-06-19 16:41:49 +03:00
Maria Kustova 6815bce542 docs: Define refcount_bits value
The 'refcount_bits' term used in the description of refcount block entry is
not defined in the specification. The definition is added in the
'refcount_order' section where refcount_bits was used as 'width in bits'.

Signed-off-by: Maria Kustova <maria.k@catit.be>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2014-05-28 14:28:46 +02:00
Gerd Hoffmann 63e3e24db2 vga: add secondary stdvga variant
Add a standard vga variant which doesn't occupy any legacy
resources and thus can easily be used as secondary (or legacy-free)
graphics adapter.  Programming must be done using the MMIO bar.

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
2014-04-28 11:03:32 +02:00
Igor Mammedov d6610bc2ad acpi: ich9: add CPU hotplug handling to Q35 machine
.. use IO port 0cd8-0xcf7 range for CPU present bitmap

Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2014-01-26 13:11:44 +02:00
Max Reitz f252080453 qcow2: Alignment of snapshot table entries
The qcow2 specification does not explicitly state so far that every
snapshot table entry is aligned to 8 bytes. QEMU, in contrast, does this
alignment, thus it should be properly documented (which this patch
does).

Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2013-10-11 16:49:58 +02:00
Anthony PERARD 314b5d4bb6 docs: Fix IO port number for CPU present bitmap.
Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Reviewd-By: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
2013-09-20 20:09:24 +04:00
Max Reitz 69c9872653 qcow2: Add corrupt bit
This adds an incompatible bit indicating corruption to qcow2. Any image
with this bit set may not be written to unless for repairing (and
subsequently clearing the bit if the repair has been successful).

Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2013-08-30 15:48:43 +02:00
Igor Mammedov b8622725cf acpi_piix4: Add infrastructure to send CPU hot-plug GPE to guest
* introduce processor status bitmask visible to guest at 0xaf00 addr,
  where ACPI asl code expects it
* set bit corresponding to APIC ID in processor status bitmask on
  receiving CPU hot-plug notification
* trigger CPU hot-plug SCI, to notify guest about CPU hot-plug event

Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
2013-05-01 13:04:18 +02:00
Hu Tao b42ffe60d8 pvpanic: add document of pvpanic
Signed-off-by: Hu Tao <hutao@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-id: a5db4ce406647e8f4663b639eae62d880531df8b.1366945969.git.hutao@cn.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2013-04-30 10:30:01 -05:00
Anthony Liguori 6165daa4c8 Merge remote-tracking branch 'bonzini/scsi-next' into staging
# By Paolo Bonzini (5) and others
# Via Paolo Bonzini
* bonzini/scsi-next:
  vhost-scsi-s390: new device supporting the tcm_vhost Linux kernel module
  vhost-scsi-ccw: new device supporting the tcm_vhost Linux kernel module
  vhost-scsi-pci: new device supporting the tcm_vhost Linux kernel module
  vhost-scsi: new device supporting the tcm_vhost Linux kernel module
  virtio: simplify Makefile conditionals
  virtio-scsi: create VirtIOSCSICommon
  vhost: Add vhost_commit callback for SeaBIOS ROM region re-mapping
  scsi: VMWare PVSCSI paravirtual device implementation
  scsi: avoid assertion failure on VERIFY command

Message-id: 1366381460-6041-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2013-04-22 08:05:05 -05:00
Dmitry Fleytman 881d588a98 scsi: VMWare PVSCSI paravirtual device implementation
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Fleytman <dmitry@daynix.com>
Signed-off-by: Yan Vugenfirer <yan@daynix.com>
[ Rename files to vmw_pvscsi, fix setting of hostStatus in
  pvscsi_request_cancelled - Paolo ]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2013-04-19 10:44:17 +02:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 22773d6066 pci: add pci test device
This device is used for kvm unit tests,
currently it supports testing performance of ioeventfd.
Using updated kvm unittest, here's an example output:
        mmio-no-eventfd:pci-mem 8796
        mmio-wildcard-eventfd:pci-mem 3609
        mmio-datamatch-eventfd:pci-mem 3685
        portio-no-eventfd:pci-io 5287
        portio-wildcard-eventfd:pci-io 1762
        portio-datamatch-eventfd:pci-io 1777

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2013-04-16 01:41:53 +03:00
Paolo Bonzini 5c03a2542f pci: use constants for devices under the 1B36 device ID, document them
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2013-01-09 12:10:28 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini b8ef62a9b7 ivshmem: use symbolic constant for PCI ID, add to pci-ids.txt
Due to disagreement on a name that is generic enough for hw/pci/pci.h,
the symbolic constants are placed in the .c files.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2013-01-08 20:24:34 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini 13744bd0a0 virtio-9p: use symbolic constant, add to pci-ids.txt
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2013-01-08 20:24:34 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini 4ea9296c07 reorganize pci-ids.txt
Some devices were missing, and we're using two PCI vendor ids.
This patch only adds devices that are already documented in hw/pci/pci.h.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2013-01-08 20:24:34 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini 28e7a65069 docs: move pci-ids.txt to docs/specs/
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2013-01-08 20:24:34 +02:00
Gerd Hoffmann df9ffb726f vga: fix bochs alignment issue
The bochs dispi interface traditionally uses port 0x1ce as 16bit index
register and port 0x1cf as 16bit data register.  The later is unaligned,
and probably for that reason the the data register was moved to 0x1d0
for non-x86 archs.

This patch makes the data register available at 0x1d0 on x86 too.  The
old x86 location is kept for compatibility reasons, so both 0x1cf and
0x1d0 can be used as data register on x86.

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
2012-11-16 11:27:06 +01:00
Gerd Hoffmann 90734e02bd serial: add pci-serial documentation
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2012-10-22 13:26:42 -05:00
Gerd Hoffmann cc22824860 vga: add specs for standard vga
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2012-10-20 07:52:54 +00:00
Stefan Weil 0546b8c2f0 Spelling fixes in comments and documentation
These wrong spellings were detected by codespell:

* successully -> successfully

* alot -> a lot

* wanna -> want to

* infomation -> information

* occured -> occurred

["also is" -> "is also" and "ressources" -> "resources" suggested by
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-09-14 08:21:28 +01:00
Stefan Hajnoczi dae8796d00 docs: add lazy refcounts bit to qcow2 specification
The lazy refcounts bit indicates that this image can take advantage of
the dirty bit and that refcount updates can be postponed.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2012-08-06 22:39:14 +02:00
Stefan Hajnoczi 0f6d767aa8 docs: add dirty bit to qcow2 specification
The dirty bit will make it possible to perform lazy refcount updates,
where the image file is not kept consistent all the time.  Upon opening
a dirty image file, it is necessary to perform a consistency check and
repair any incorrect refcounts.

Therefore the dirty bit must be an incompatible feature bit.  We don't
want old programs accessing a file with stale refcounts.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2012-08-06 22:39:14 +02:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt c73e3771ea spapr: Add "memop" hypercall
This adds a qemu-specific hypervisor call to the pseries machine
which allows to do what amounts to memmove, memcpy and xor over
regions of physical memory such as the framebuffer.

This is the simplest way to get usable framebuffer speed from
SLOF since the framebuffer isn't mapped in the VRMA and so would
otherwise require an hcall per 8 bytes access.

The performance is still not great but usable, and can be improved
with a more complex implementation of the hcall itself if needed.

This also adds some documentation for the qemu-specific hypercalls
that we add to PAPR along with a new qemu,hypertas-functions property
that mirrors ibm,hypertas-functions and provides some discoverability
for the new calls.

Note: I chose note to advertise H_RTAS to the guest via that mechanism.
This is done on purpose, the guest uses the normal RTAS interfaces
provided by qemu (including SLOF) which internally calls H_RTAS.

We might in the future implement part (or even all) of RTAS inside the
guest like IBM's firmware does and replace H_RTAS with some finer grained
set of private hypercalls.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2012-06-24 01:04:45 +02:00
Zhi Yong Wu bf3f363a5b docs: fix one issue in qcow2 specs
Signed-off-by: Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2012-05-02 18:39:39 +02:00
Kevin Wolf 4fabffc112 Specification for qcow2 version 3
This updates the qcow2 specification to cover version 3. It contains the
following changes:

- Added compatible/incompatible/auto-clear feature bits plus an optional
  feature name table to allow useful error messages even if an older
  version doesn't know some feature at all.

- Configurable refcount width. If you don't want to use internal
  snapshots, make refcounts one bit and save cache space and I/O.

- Zero cluster flags. This allows discard even with a backing file that
  doesn't contain zeros. It is also useful for copy-on-read/image
  streaming, as you'll want to keep sparseness without accessing the
  remote image for an unallocated cluster all the time.

- Fixed internal snapshot metadata to use 64 bit VM state size. You
  can't save a snapshot of a VM with >= 4 GB RAM today.

- Extended internal snapshot metadata to contain the disk size, so that
  resizing images that have snapshots can be allowed in the future.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2012-04-20 15:57:27 +02:00
Alex Williamson 9290f364c1 acpi_piix4: Re-define PCI hotplug eject register read
The PCI hotplug eject register has always returned 0, so let's redefine
it as a hotplug feature register.  The existing model of using separate
up & down read-only registers and an eject via write to this register
becomes the base implementation.  As we make use of new interfaces we'll
set bits here to allow the BIOS and AML implementation to optimize for
the platform implementation.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2012-04-15 12:17:23 +03:00
Alex Williamson 31745aabcd acpi_piix4: Remove PCI_RMV_BASE write code
Clarify this register as read-only and remove write code.  No
change in existing behavior.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2012-04-15 12:17:23 +03:00
Alex Williamson ba737541ed acpi_piix4: Disallow write to up/down PCI hotplug registers
The write side of these registers is never used and actually can't be
used as defined because any read/modify/write sequence from the guest
potentially races with qemu.  Drop the write support and define these
as read-only registers.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2012-04-15 12:17:22 +03:00
Stefan Weil 6576b74b0b Replace Qemu by QEMU in internal documentation
The official spelling is QEMU.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2012-04-07 13:58:25 +00:00
Kevin Wolf c2c9a46609 qcow2: Allow >4 GB VM state
This is a compatible extension to the snapshot header format that allows
saving a 64 bit VM state size.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-12-15 12:40:33 +01:00
Zhi Yong Wu 3789985f40 qcow2: fix some errors and typo in qcow2.txt
Signed-off-by: Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-10-28 19:25:49 +02:00
Stefan Hajnoczi d54f10bba7 docs: Describe zero data clusters in QED specification
Zero data clusters are a space-efficient way of storing zeroed regions
of the image.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-04-13 12:06:40 +02:00
Kevin Wolf 03feae7305 Add qcow2 documentation
This adds a description of the qcow2 file format to the docs/ directory.
Besides documenting what's there, which is never wrong, the document should
provide a good basis for the discussion of format extensions (called "qcow3"
in previous discussions)

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-03-16 09:56:18 +01:00
Marcelo Tosatti 9c046d96d4 document QEMU<->ACPIBIOS PCI hotplug interface
Document how QEMU communicates with ACPI BIOS for PCI hotplug.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2011-01-17 17:29:42 +02:00
Stefan Hajnoczi e59d688ad1 docs: Fix missing carets in QED specification
For some reason the carets ('^') in the QED specification disappeared.
This patch puts them back.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2010-12-17 17:05:06 +01:00
Stefan Hajnoczi 71af014f14 docs: Add QED image format specification
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2010-12-17 16:11:04 +01:00
Cam Macdonell b6828931eb Device specification for shared memory PCI device
Signed-off-by: Cam Macdonell <cam@cs.ualberta.ca>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-08-10 16:25:15 -05:00