KVM: arm64: Document HVC_VHE_RESTART stub hypercall
authorMarc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Mon, 8 Feb 2021 09:57:27 +0000 (09:57 +0000)
committerWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Tue, 9 Feb 2021 13:50:57 +0000 (13:50 +0000)
For completeness, let's document the HVC_VHE_RESTART stub.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Brazdil <dbrazdil@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210208095732.3267263-19-maz@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/hyp-abi.rst

index 83cadd8..4d43fbc 100644 (file)
@@ -58,6 +58,15 @@ these functions (see arch/arm{,64}/include/asm/virt.h):
   into place (arm64 only), and jump to the restart address while at HYP/EL2.
   This hypercall is not expected to return to its caller.
 
+* ::
+
+    x0 = HVC_VHE_RESTART (arm64 only)
+
+  Attempt to upgrade the kernel's exception level from EL1 to EL2 by enabling
+  the VHE mode. This is conditioned by the CPU supporting VHE, the EL2 MMU
+  being off, and VHE not being disabled by any other means (command line
+  option, for example).
+
 Any other value of r0/x0 triggers a hypervisor-specific handling,
 which is not documented here.