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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/system/arm/cpu-features.rst | 21 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/system/arm/emulation.rst | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/system/arm/virt.rst | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/tools/qemu-img.rst | 19 |
4 files changed, 39 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/docs/system/arm/cpu-features.rst b/docs/system/arm/cpu-features.rst index 6bb88a40c7..a5fb929243 100644 --- a/docs/system/arm/cpu-features.rst +++ b/docs/system/arm/cpu-features.rst @@ -210,15 +210,20 @@ TCG VCPU Features TCG VCPU features are CPU features that are specific to TCG. Below is the list of TCG VCPU features and their descriptions. +``pauth`` + Enable or disable ``FEAT_Pauth`` entirely. + ``pauth-impdef`` - When ``FEAT_Pauth`` is enabled, either the *impdef* (Implementation - Defined) algorithm is enabled or the *architected* QARMA algorithm - is enabled. By default the impdef algorithm is disabled, and QARMA - is enabled. - - The architected QARMA algorithm has good cryptographic properties, - but can be quite slow to emulate. The impdef algorithm used by QEMU - is non-cryptographic but significantly faster. + When ``pauth`` is enabled, select the QEMU implementation defined algorithm. + +``pauth-qarma3`` + When ``pauth`` is enabled, select the architected QARMA3 algorithm. + +Without either ``pauth-impdef`` or ``pauth-qarma3`` enabled, +the architected QARMA5 algorithm is used. The architected QARMA5 +and QARMA3 algorithms have good cryptographic properties, but can +be quite slow to emulate. The impdef algorithm used by QEMU is +non-cryptographic but significantly faster. SVE CPU Properties ================== diff --git a/docs/system/arm/emulation.rst b/docs/system/arm/emulation.rst index 2e6a7c8961..3df936fc35 100644 --- a/docs/system/arm/emulation.rst +++ b/docs/system/arm/emulation.rst @@ -28,12 +28,15 @@ the following architecture extensions: - FEAT_DotProd (Advanced SIMD dot product instructions) - FEAT_DoubleFault (Double Fault Extension) - FEAT_E0PD (Preventing EL0 access to halves of address maps) +- FEAT_EPAC (Enhanced pointer authentication) - FEAT_ETS (Enhanced Translation Synchronization) - FEAT_EVT (Enhanced Virtualization Traps) - FEAT_FCMA (Floating-point complex number instructions) - FEAT_FGT (Fine-Grained Traps) - FEAT_FHM (Floating-point half-precision multiplication instructions) - FEAT_FP16 (Half-precision floating-point data processing) +- FEAT_FPAC (Faulting on AUT* instructions) +- FEAT_FPACCOMBINE (Faulting on combined pointer authentication instructions) - FEAT_FRINTTS (Floating-point to integer instructions) - FEAT_FlagM (Flag manipulation instructions v2) - FEAT_FlagM2 (Enhancements to flag manipulation instructions) @@ -57,10 +60,14 @@ the following architecture extensions: - FEAT_MTE (Memory Tagging Extension) - FEAT_MTE2 (Memory Tagging Extension) - FEAT_MTE3 (MTE Asymmetric Fault Handling) +- FEAT_PACIMP (Pointer authentication - IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED algorithm) +- FEAT_PACQARMA3 (Pointer authentication - QARMA3 algorithm) +- FEAT_PACQARMA5 (Pointer authentication - QARMA5 algorithm) - FEAT_PAN (Privileged access never) - FEAT_PAN2 (AT S1E1R and AT S1E1W instruction variants affected by PSTATE.PAN) - FEAT_PAN3 (Support for SCTLR_ELx.EPAN) - FEAT_PAuth (Pointer authentication) +- FEAT_PAuth2 (Enhacements to pointer authentication) - FEAT_PMULL (PMULL, PMULL2 instructions) - FEAT_PMUv3p1 (PMU Extensions v3.1) - FEAT_PMUv3p4 (PMU Extensions v3.4) @@ -85,6 +92,7 @@ the following architecture extensions: - FEAT_SME_I16I64 (16-bit to 64-bit integer widening outer product instructions) - FEAT_SPECRES (Speculation restriction instructions) - FEAT_SSBS (Speculative Store Bypass Safe) +- FEAT_TIDCP1 (EL0 use of IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED functionality) - FEAT_TLBIOS (TLB invalidate instructions in Outer Shareable domain) - FEAT_TLBIRANGE (TLB invalidate range instructions) - FEAT_TTCNP (Translation table Common not private translations) diff --git a/docs/system/arm/virt.rst b/docs/system/arm/virt.rst index 51cdac6841..e1697ac8f4 100644 --- a/docs/system/arm/virt.rst +++ b/docs/system/arm/virt.rst @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ Supported guest CPU types: - ``cortex-a57`` (64-bit) - ``cortex-a72`` (64-bit) - ``cortex-a76`` (64-bit) +- ``cortex-a710`` (64-bit) - ``a64fx`` (64-bit) - ``host`` (with KVM only) - ``neoverse-n1`` (64-bit) diff --git a/docs/tools/qemu-img.rst b/docs/tools/qemu-img.rst index 15aeddc6d8..ca5a2773cf 100644 --- a/docs/tools/qemu-img.rst +++ b/docs/tools/qemu-img.rst @@ -106,7 +106,11 @@ by the used format or see the format descriptions below for details. .. option:: -c - Indicates that target image must be compressed (qcow format only). + Indicates that target image must be compressed (qcow/qcow2 and vmdk with + streamOptimized subformat only). + + For qcow2, the compression algorithm can be specified with the ``-o + compression_type=...`` option (see below). .. option:: -h @@ -776,7 +780,7 @@ Supported image file formats: QEMU image format, the most versatile format. Use it to have smaller images (useful if your filesystem does not supports holes, for example - on Windows), optional AES encryption, zlib based compression and + on Windows), optional AES encryption, zlib or zstd based compression and support of multiple VM snapshots. Supported options: @@ -794,6 +798,17 @@ Supported image file formats: ``backing_fmt`` Image format of the base image + ``compression_type`` + This option configures which compression algorithm will be used for + compressed clusters on the image. Note that setting this option doesn't yet + cause the image to actually receive compressed writes. It is most commonly + used with the ``-c`` option of ``qemu-img convert``, but can also be used + with the ``compress`` filter driver or backup block jobs with compression + enabled. + + Valid values are ``zlib`` and ``zstd``. For images that use + ``compat=0.10``, only ``zlib`` compression is available. + ``encryption`` If this option is set to ``on``, the image is encrypted with 128-bit AES-CBC. |