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Merge tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-nextgrafted
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core:
- Add dedicated kmem_cache for typical/small skb->head, avoid having
to access struct page at kfree time, and improve memory use.
- Introduce sysctl to set default RPS configuration for new netdevs.
- Define Netlink protocol specification format which can be used to
describe messages used by each family and auto-generate parsers.
Add tools for generating kernel data structures and uAPI headers.
- Expose all net/core sysctls inside netns.
- Remove 4s sleep in netpoll if carrier is instantly detected on
boot.
- Add configurable limit of MDB entries per port, and port-vlan.
- Continue populating drop reasons throughout the stack.
- Retire a handful of legacy Qdiscs and classifiers.
Protocols:
- Support IPv4 big TCP (TSO frames larger than 64kB).
- Add IP_LOCAL_PORT_RANGE socket option, to control local port range
on socket by socket basis.
- Track and report in procfs number of MPTCP sockets used.
- Support mixing IPv4 and IPv6 flows in the in-kernel MPTCP path
manager.
- IPv6: don't check net.ipv6.route.max_size and rely on garbage
collection to free memory (similarly to IPv4).
- Support Penultimate Segment Pop (PSP) flavor in SRv6 (RFC8986).
- ICMP: add per-rate limit counters.
- Add support for user scanning requests in ieee802154.
- Remove static WEP support.
- Support minimal Wi-Fi 7 Extremely High Throughput (EHT) rate
reporting.
- WiFi 7 EHT channel puncturing support (client & AP).
BPF:
- Add a rbtree data structure following the "next-gen data structure"
precedent set by recently added linked list, that is, by using
kfunc + kptr instead of adding a new BPF map type.
- Expose XDP hints via kfuncs with initial support for RX hash and
timestamp metadata.
- Add BPF_F_NO_TUNNEL_KEY extension to bpf_skb_set_tunnel_key to
better support decap on GRE tunnel devices not operating in collect
metadata.
- Improve x86 JIT's codegen for PROBE_MEM runtime error checks.
- Remove the need for trace_printk_lock for bpf_trace_printk and
bpf_trace_vprintk helpers.
- Extend libbpf's bpf_tracing.h support for tracing arguments of
kprobes/uprobes and syscall as a special case.
- Significantly reduce the search time for module symbols by
livepatch and BPF.
- Enable cpumasks to be used as kptrs, which is useful for tracing
programs tracking which tasks end up running on which CPUs in
different time intervals.
- Add support for BPF trampoline on s390x and riscv64.
- Add capability to export the XDP features supported by the NIC.
- Add __bpf_kfunc tag for marking kernel functions as kfuncs.
- Add cgroup.memory=nobpf kernel parameter option to disable BPF
memory accounting for container environments.
Netfilter:
- Remove the CLUSTERIP target. It has been marked as obsolete for
years, and we still have WARN splats wrt races of the out-of-band
/proc interface installed by this target.
- Add 'destroy' commands to nf_tables. They are identical to the
existing 'delete' commands, but do not return an error if the
referenced object (set, chain, rule...) did not exist.
Driver API:
- Improve cpumask_local_spread() locality to help NICs set the right
IRQ affinity on AMD platforms.
- Separate C22 and C45 MDIO bus transactions more clearly.
- Introduce new DCB table to control DSCP rewrite on egress.
- Support configuration of Physical Layer Collision Avoidance (PLCA)
Reconciliation Sublayer (RS) (802.3cg-2019). Modern version of
shared medium Ethernet.
- Support for MAC Merge layer (IEEE 802.3-2018 clause 99). Allowing
preemption of low priority frames by high priority frames.
- Add support for controlling MACSec offload using netlink SET.
- Rework devlink instance refcounts to allow registration and
de-registration under the instance lock. Split the code into
multiple files, drop some of the unnecessarily granular locks and
factor out common parts of netlink operation handling.
- Add TX frame aggregation parameters (for USB drivers).
- Add a new attr TCA_EXT_WARN_MSG to report TC (offload) warning
messages with notifications for debug.
- Allow offloading of UDP NEW connections via act_ct.
- Add support for per action HW stats in TC.
- Support hardware miss to TC action (continue processing in SW from
a specific point in the action chain).
- Warn if old Wireless Extension user space interface is used with
modern cfg80211/mac80211 drivers. Do not support Wireless
Extensions for Wi-Fi 7 devices at all. Everyone should switch to
using nl80211 interface instead.
- Improve the CAN bit timing configuration. Use extack to return
error messages directly to user space, update the SJW handling,
including the definition of a new default value that will benefit
CAN-FD controllers, by increasing their oscillator tolerance.
New hardware / drivers:
- Ethernet:
- nVidia BlueField-3 support (control traffic driver)
- Ethernet support for imx93 SoCs
- Motorcomm yt8531 gigabit Ethernet PHY
- onsemi NCN26000 10BASE-T1S PHY (with support for PLCA)
- Microchip LAN8841 PHY (incl. cable diagnostics and PTP)
- Amlogic gxl MDIO mux
- WiFi:
- RealTek RTL8188EU (rtl8xxxu)
- Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 devices (ath12k)
- CAN:
- Renesas R-Car V4H
Drivers:
- Bluetooth:
- Set Per Platform Antenna Gain (PPAG) for Intel controllers.
- Ethernet NICs:
- Intel (1G, igc):
- support TSN / Qbv / packet scheduling features of i226 model
- Intel (100G, ice):
- use GNSS subsystem instead of TTY
- multi-buffer XDP support
- extend support for GPIO pins to E823 devices
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- update the shared buffer configuration on PFC commands
- implement PTP adjphase function for HW offset control
- TC support for Geneve and GRE with VF tunnel offload
- more efficient crypto key management method
- multi-port eswitch support
- Netronome/Corigine:
- add DCB IEEE support
- support IPsec offloading for NFP3800
- Freescale/NXP (enetc):
- support XDP_REDIRECT for XDP non-linear buffers
- improve reconfig, avoid link flap and waiting for idle
- support MAC Merge layer
- Other NICs:
- sfc/ef100: add basic devlink support for ef100
- ionic: rx_push mode operation (writing descriptors via MMIO)
- bnxt: use the auxiliary bus abstraction for RDMA
- r8169: disable ASPM and reset bus in case of tx timeout
- cpsw: support QSGMII mode for J721e CPSW9G
- cpts: support pulse-per-second output
- ngbe: add an mdio bus driver
- usbnet: optimize usbnet_bh() by avoiding unnecessary queuing
- r8152: handle devices with FW with NCM support
- amd-xgbe: support 10Mbps, 2.5GbE speeds and rx-adaptation
- virtio-net: support multi buffer XDP
- virtio/vsock: replace virtio_vsock_pkt with sk_buff
- tsnep: XDP support
- Ethernet high-speed switches:
- nVidia/Mellanox (mlxsw):
- add support for latency TLV (in FW control messages)
- Microchip (sparx5):
- separate explicit and implicit traffic forwarding rules, make
the implicit rules always active
- add support for egress DSCP rewrite
- IS0 VCAP support (Ingress Classification)
- IS2 VCAP filters (protos, L3 addrs, L4 ports, flags, ToS
etc.)
- ES2 VCAP support (Egress Access Control)
- support for Per-Stream Filtering and Policing (802.1Q,
8.6.5.1)
- Ethernet embedded switches:
- Marvell (mv88e6xxx):
- add MAB (port auth) offload support
- enable PTP receive for mv88e6390
- NXP (ocelot):
- support MAC Merge layer
- support for the the vsc7512 internal copper phys
- Microchip:
- lan9303: convert to PHYLINK
- lan966x: support TC flower filter statistics
- lan937x: PTP support for KSZ9563/KSZ8563 and LAN937x
- lan937x: support Credit Based Shaper configuration
- ksz9477: support Energy Efficient Ethernet
- other:
- qca8k: convert to regmap read/write API, use bulk operations
- rswitch: Improve TX timestamp accuracy
- Intel WiFi (iwlwifi):
- EHT (Wi-Fi 7) rate reporting
- STEP equalizer support: transfer some STEP (connection to radio
on platforms with integrated wifi) related parameters from the
BIOS to the firmware.
- Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
- IPQ5018 support
- Fine Timing Measurement (FTM) responder role support
- channel 177 support
- MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
- per-PHY LED support
- mt7996: EHT (Wi-Fi 7) support
- Wireless Ethernet Dispatch (WED) reset support
- switch to using page pool allocator
- RealTek WiFi (rtw89):
- support new version of Bluetooth co-existance
- Mobile:
- rmnet: support TX aggregation"
* tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1872 commits)
page_pool: add a comment explaining the fragment counter usage
net: ethtool: fix __ethtool_dev_mm_supported() implementation
ethtool: pse-pd: Fix double word in comments
xsk: add linux/vmalloc.h to xsk.c
sefltests: netdevsim: wait for devlink instance after netns removal
selftest: fib_tests: Always cleanup before exit
net/mlx5e: Align IPsec ASO result memory to be as required by hardware
net/mlx5e: TC, Set CT miss to the specific ct action instance
net/mlx5e: Rename CHAIN_TO_REG to MAPPED_OBJ_TO_REG
net/mlx5: Refactor tc miss handling to a single function
net/mlx5: Kconfig: Make tc offload depend on tc skb extension
net/sched: flower: Support hardware miss to tc action
net/sched: flower: Move filter handle initialization earlier
net/sched: cls_api: Support hardware miss to tc action
net/sched: Rename user cookie and act cookie
sfc: fix builds without CONFIG_RTC_LIB
sfc: clean up some inconsistent indentings
net/mlx4_en: Introduce flexible array to silence overflow warning
net: lan966x: Fix possible deadlock inside PTP
net/ulp: Remove redundant ->clone() test in inet_clone_ulp().
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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/index.rst | 13 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/ptp_kvm.rst | 25 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pvtime.rst | 82 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/hyp-abi.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/hyp-abi.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..412b27644 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/hyp-abi.rst @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +======================================= +Internal ABI between the kernel and HYP +======================================= + +This file documents the interaction between the Linux kernel and the +hypervisor layer when running Linux as a hypervisor (for example +KVM). It doesn't cover the interaction of the kernel with the +hypervisor when running as a guest (under Xen, KVM or any other +hypervisor), or any hypervisor-specific interaction when the kernel is +used as a host. + +Note: KVM/arm has been removed from the kernel. The API described +here is still valid though, as it allows the kernel to kexec when +booted at HYP. It can also be used by a hypervisor other than KVM +if necessary. + +On arm and arm64 (without VHE), the kernel doesn't run in hypervisor +mode, but still needs to interact with it, allowing a built-in +hypervisor to be either installed or torn down. + +In order to achieve this, the kernel must be booted at HYP (arm) or +EL2 (arm64), allowing it to install a set of stubs before dropping to +SVC/EL1. These stubs are accessible by using a 'hvc #0' instruction, +and only act on individual CPUs. + +Unless specified otherwise, any built-in hypervisor must implement +these functions (see arch/arm{,64}/include/asm/virt.h): + +* :: + + r0/x0 = HVC_SET_VECTORS + r1/x1 = vectors + + Set HVBAR/VBAR_EL2 to 'vectors' to enable a hypervisor. 'vectors' + must be a physical address, and respect the alignment requirements + of the architecture. Only implemented by the initial stubs, not by + Linux hypervisors. + +* :: + + r0/x0 = HVC_RESET_VECTORS + + Turn HYP/EL2 MMU off, and reset HVBAR/VBAR_EL2 to the initials + stubs' exception vector value. This effectively disables an existing + hypervisor. + +* :: + + r0/x0 = HVC_SOFT_RESTART + r1/x1 = restart address + x2 = x0's value when entering the next payload (arm64) + x3 = x1's value when entering the next payload (arm64) + x4 = x2's value when entering the next payload (arm64) + + Mask all exceptions, disable the MMU, clear I+D bits, move the arguments + 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_FINALISE_EL2 (arm64 only) + + Finish configuring EL2 depending on the command-line options, + including an 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. + +The return value of a stub hypercall is held by r0/x0, and is 0 on +success, and HVC_STUB_ERR on error. A stub hypercall is allowed to +clobber any of the caller-saved registers (x0-x18 on arm64, r0-r3 and +ip on arm). It is thus recommended to use a function call to perform +the hypercall. diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/hypercalls.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/hypercalls.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3e2308464 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/hypercalls.rst @@ -0,0 +1,138 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +======================= +ARM Hypercall Interface +======================= + +KVM handles the hypercall services as requested by the guests. New hypercall +services are regularly made available by the ARM specification or by KVM (as +vendor services) if they make sense from a virtualization point of view. + +This means that a guest booted on two different versions of KVM can observe +two different "firmware" revisions. This could cause issues if a given guest +is tied to a particular version of a hypercall service, or if a migration +causes a different version to be exposed out of the blue to an unsuspecting +guest. + +In order to remedy this situation, KVM exposes a set of "firmware +pseudo-registers" that can be manipulated using the GET/SET_ONE_REG +interface. These registers can be saved/restored by userspace, and set +to a convenient value as required. + +The following registers are defined: + +* KVM_REG_ARM_PSCI_VERSION: + + KVM implements the PSCI (Power State Coordination Interface) + specification in order to provide services such as CPU on/off, reset + and power-off to the guest. + + - Only valid if the vcpu has the KVM_ARM_VCPU_PSCI_0_2 feature set + (and thus has already been initialized) + - Returns the current PSCI version on GET_ONE_REG (defaulting to the + highest PSCI version implemented by KVM and compatible with v0.2) + - Allows any PSCI version implemented by KVM and compatible with + v0.2 to be set with SET_ONE_REG + - Affects the whole VM (even if the register view is per-vcpu) + +* KVM_REG_ARM_SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_1: + Holds the state of the firmware support to mitigate CVE-2017-5715, as + offered by KVM to the guest via a HVC call. The workaround is described + under SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_1 in [1]. + + Accepted values are: + + KVM_REG_ARM_SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_1_NOT_AVAIL: + KVM does not offer + firmware support for the workaround. The mitigation status for the + guest is unknown. + KVM_REG_ARM_SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_1_AVAIL: + The workaround HVC call is + available to the guest and required for the mitigation. + KVM_REG_ARM_SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_1_NOT_REQUIRED: + The workaround HVC call + is available to the guest, but it is not needed on this VCPU. + +* KVM_REG_ARM_SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_2: + Holds the state of the firmware support to mitigate CVE-2018-3639, as + offered by KVM to the guest via a HVC call. The workaround is described + under SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 in [1]_. + + Accepted values are: + + KVM_REG_ARM_SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_2_NOT_AVAIL: + A workaround is not + available. KVM does not offer firmware support for the workaround. + KVM_REG_ARM_SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_2_UNKNOWN: + The workaround state is + unknown. KVM does not offer firmware support for the workaround. + KVM_REG_ARM_SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_2_AVAIL: + The workaround is available, + and can be disabled by a vCPU. If + KVM_REG_ARM_SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_2_ENABLED is set, it is active for + this vCPU. + KVM_REG_ARM_SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_2_NOT_REQUIRED: + The workaround is always active on this vCPU or it is not needed. + + +Bitmap Feature Firmware Registers +--------------------------------- + +Contrary to the above registers, the following registers exposes the +hypercall services in the form of a feature-bitmap to the userspace. This +bitmap is translated to the services that are available to the guest. +There is a register defined per service call owner and can be accessed via +GET/SET_ONE_REG interface. + +By default, these registers are set with the upper limit of the features +that are supported. This way userspace can discover all the usable +hypercall services via GET_ONE_REG. The user-space can write-back the +desired bitmap back via SET_ONE_REG. The features for the registers that +are untouched, probably because userspace isn't aware of them, will be +exposed as is to the guest. + +Note that KVM will not allow the userspace to configure the registers +anymore once any of the vCPUs has run at least once. Instead, it will +return a -EBUSY. + +The pseudo-firmware bitmap register are as follows: + +* KVM_REG_ARM_STD_BMAP: + Controls the bitmap of the ARM Standard Secure Service Calls. + + The following bits are accepted: + + Bit-0: KVM_REG_ARM_STD_BIT_TRNG_V1_0: + The bit represents the services offered under v1.0 of ARM True Random + Number Generator (TRNG) specification, ARM DEN0098. + +* KVM_REG_ARM_STD_HYP_BMAP: + Controls the bitmap of the ARM Standard Hypervisor Service Calls. + + The following bits are accepted: + + Bit-0: KVM_REG_ARM_STD_HYP_BIT_PV_TIME: + The bit represents the Paravirtualized Time service as represented by + ARM DEN0057A. + +* KVM_REG_ARM_VENDOR_HYP_BMAP: + Controls the bitmap of the Vendor specific Hypervisor Service Calls. + + The following bits are accepted: + + Bit-0: KVM_REG_ARM_VENDOR_HYP_BIT_FUNC_FEAT + The bit represents the ARM_SMCCC_VENDOR_HYP_KVM_FEATURES_FUNC_ID + and ARM_SMCCC_VENDOR_HYP_CALL_UID_FUNC_ID function-ids. + + Bit-1: KVM_REG_ARM_VENDOR_HYP_BIT_PTP: + The bit represents the Precision Time Protocol KVM service. + +Errors: + + ======= ============================================================= + -ENOENT Unknown register accessed. + -EBUSY Attempt a 'write' to the register after the VM has started. + -EINVAL Invalid bitmap written to the register. + ======= ============================================================= + +.. [1] https://developer.arm.com/-/media/developer/pdf/ARM_DEN_0070A_Firmware_interfaces_for_mitigating_CVE-2017-5715.pdf diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/index.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e84848432 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +=== +ARM +=== + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 2 + + hyp-abi + hypercalls + pvtime + ptp_kvm diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/ptp_kvm.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/ptp_kvm.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..aecdc80dd --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/ptp_kvm.rst @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +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_VENDOR_HYP_KVM_PTP_FUNC_ID: 0x86000001 + +This hypercall uses the SMC32/HVC32 calling convention: + +ARM_SMCCC_VENDOR_HYP_KVM_PTP_FUNC_ID + ============== ======== ===================================== + Function ID: (uint32) 0x86000001 + Arguments: (uint32) KVM_PTP_VIRT_COUNTER(0) + KVM_PTP_PHYS_COUNTER(1) + Return Values: (int32) NOT_SUPPORTED(-1) on error, or + (uint32) Upper 32 bits of wall clock time (r0) + (uint32) Lower 32 bits of wall clock time (r1) + (uint32) Upper 32 bits of counter (r2) + (uint32) Lower 32 bits of counter (r3) + Endianness: No Restrictions. + ============== ======== ===================================== diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pvtime.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pvtime.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e88b34e58 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pvtime.rst @@ -0,0 +1,82 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +Paravirtualized time support for arm64 +====================================== + +Arm specification DEN0057/A defines a standard for paravirtualised time +support for AArch64 guests: + +https://developer.arm.com/docs/den0057/a + +KVM/arm64 implements the stolen time part of this specification by providing +some hypervisor service calls to support a paravirtualized guest obtaining a +view of the amount of time stolen from its execution. + +Two new SMCCC compatible hypercalls are defined: + +* PV_TIME_FEATURES: 0xC5000020 +* PV_TIME_ST: 0xC5000021 + +These are only available in the SMC64/HVC64 calling convention as +paravirtualized time is not available to 32 bit Arm guests. The existence of +the PV_TIME_FEATURES hypercall should be probed using the SMCCC 1.1 +ARCH_FEATURES mechanism before calling it. + +PV_TIME_FEATURES + + ============= ======== ================================================= + Function ID: (uint32) 0xC5000020 + PV_call_id: (uint32) The function to query for support. + Currently only PV_TIME_ST is supported. + Return value: (int64) NOT_SUPPORTED (-1) or SUCCESS (0) if the relevant + PV-time feature is supported by the hypervisor. + ============= ======== ================================================= + +PV_TIME_ST + + ============= ======== ============================================== + Function ID: (uint32) 0xC5000021 + Return value: (int64) IPA of the stolen time data structure for this + VCPU. On failure: + NOT_SUPPORTED (-1) + ============= ======== ============================================== + +The IPA returned by PV_TIME_ST should be mapped by the guest as normal memory +with inner and outer write back caching attributes, in the inner shareable +domain. A total of 16 bytes from the IPA returned are guaranteed to be +meaningfully filled by the hypervisor (see structure below). + +PV_TIME_ST returns the structure for the calling VCPU. + +Stolen Time +----------- + +The structure pointed to by the PV_TIME_ST hypercall is as follows: + ++-------------+-------------+-------------+----------------------------+ +| Field | Byte Length | Byte Offset | Description | ++=============+=============+=============+============================+ +| Revision | 4 | 0 | Must be 0 for version 1.0 | ++-------------+-------------+-------------+----------------------------+ +| Attributes | 4 | 4 | Must be 0 | ++-------------+-------------+-------------+----------------------------+ +| Stolen time | 8 | 8 | Stolen time in unsigned | +| | | | nanoseconds indicating how | +| | | | much time this VCPU thread | +| | | | was involuntarily not | +| | | | running on a physical CPU. | ++-------------+-------------+-------------+----------------------------+ + +All values in the structure are stored little-endian. + +The structure will be updated by the hypervisor prior to scheduling a VCPU. It +will be present within a reserved region of the normal memory given to the +guest. The guest should not attempt to write into this memory. There is a +structure per VCPU of the guest. + +It is advisable that one or more 64k pages are set aside for the purpose of +these structures and not used for other purposes, this enables the guest to map +the region using 64k pages and avoids conflicting attributes with other memory. + +For the user space interface see +:ref:`Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vcpu.rst <kvm_arm_vcpu_pvtime_ctrl>`.
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