Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: arm: document which hypercalls (and subops) are supported on ARM

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 22 Jul 2013, Ian Campbell wrote:
> From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> There are many hypercalls which make no sense or which are not supported on 
> ARM
> systems but it's not all that obvious which ones we do support. So lets try 
> and
> document the hypercalls which are useful on ARM.
> 
> I'm not sure this is the best way to go about this, I'm open to other ideas.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  xen/include/public/arch-arm.h | 66 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 64 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/xen/include/public/arch-arm.h b/xen/include/public/arch-arm.h
> index 8aa62d3..b4a20bb 100644
> --- a/xen/include/public/arch-arm.h
> +++ b/xen/include/public/arch-arm.h
> @@ -27,8 +27,8 @@
>  #ifndef __XEN_PUBLIC_ARCH_ARM_H__
>  #define __XEN_PUBLIC_ARCH_ARM_H__
>  
> -/* hypercall calling convention
> - * ----------------------------
> +/*
> + * `incontents 50 arm_abi Hypercall Calling Convention
>   *
>   * A hypercall is issued using the ARM HVC instruction.
>   *
> @@ -60,6 +60,68 @@
>   * hypercall arguments are always little endian.
>   */
>  
> +/*
> + * `incontents 55 arm_hcall Supported Hypercalls
> + *
> + * Xen on ARM makes extensive use of hardware facilities and therefore
> + * only a subset of the potential hypercalls are required.
> + *
> + * Since ARM uses second stage paging any machine/physical addresses
> + * passed to hypercalls are Guest Physical Addresses (Intermediate
> + * Physical Addresses) unless otherwise noted.
> + *
> + * The following hypercalls (and sub operations) are supported on the
> + * ARM platform. Other hypercalls should be considered
> + * unavailable/unsupported.
> + *
> + *  HYPERVISOR_memory_op
> + *   All generic sub-operations.
> + *
> + *   In addition the following arch specific sub-ops:
> + *    * XENMEM_add_to_physmap
> + *    * XENMEM_add_to_physmap_range
> + *
> + *  HYPERVISOR_domctl
> + *   All generic sub-operations, with the exception of:
> + *    * XEN_DOMCTL_iomem_permission (not yet implemented)
> + *    * XEN_DOMCTL_irq_permission (not yet implemented)
> + *
> + *  HYPERVISOR_sched_op
> + *   All generic sub-operations, with the exception of:
> + *    * SCHEDOP_block -- prefer wfi hardware instruction
> + *
> + *  HYPERVISOR_console_io
> + *   All generic sub-operations
> + *
> + *  HYPERVISOR_xen_version
> + *   All generic sub-operations
> + *
> + *  HYPERVISOR_event_channel_op
> + *   All generic sub-operations
> + *
> + *  HYPERVISOR_physdev_op
> + *   No sub-operations are currenty supported
> + *
> + *  HYPERVISOR_sysctl
> + *   All generic sub-operations, with the exception of:
> + *    * XEN_SYSCTL_page_offline_op
> + *    * XEN_SYSCTL_get_pmstat
> + *    * XEN_SYSCTL_pm_op
> + *
> + *  HYPERVISOR_hvm_op
> + *   Exactly these sub-operations are supported:
> + *    * HVMOP_set_param
> + *    * HVMOP_get_param
> + *
> + *  HYPERVISOR_grant_table_op
> + *   All generic sub-operations
> + *
> + *  HYPERVISOR_vcpu_op
> + *   Exactly these sub-operations are supported:
> + *    * VCPUOP_register_vcpu_info
> + *    * VCPUOP_register_runstate_memory_area
> + */
> +

You are missing all the common tmem ops.

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