Re: [PATCH v19 6/7] KVM: arm64: Add support for the KVM PTP service

From: Zenghui Yu
Date: Sat Apr 17 2021 - 05:00:00 EST


On 2021/3/30 22:54, Marc Zyngier wrote:
+PTP_KVM support for arm/arm64
+=============================
+
+PTP_KVM is used for high precision time sync between host and guests.
+It relies on transferring the wall clock and counter value from the
+host to the guest using a KVM-specific hypercall.
+
+* ARM_SMCCC_HYP_KVM_PTP_FUNC_ID: 0x86000001

Per include/linux/arm-smccc.h, this should be
ARM_SMCCC_VENDOR_HYP_KVM_PTP_FUNC_ID.

+
+This hypercall uses the SMC32/HVC32 calling convention:
+
+ARM_SMCCC_HYP_KVM_PTP_FUNC_ID

ditto

+ ============= ========== ==========
+ Function ID: (uint32) 0x86000001
+ Arguments: (uint32) KVM_PTP_VIRT_COUNTER(0)
+ KVM_PTP_PHYS_COUNTER(1)