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diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3fb905429 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic.txt @@ -0,0 +1,116 @@ +ARM Virtual Generic Interrupt Controller (VGIC) +=============================================== + +Device types supported: + KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V2 ARM Generic Interrupt Controller v2.0 + KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V3 ARM Generic Interrupt Controller v3.0 + +Only one VGIC instance may be instantiated through either this API or the +legacy KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP api. The created VGIC will act as the VM interrupt +controller, requiring emulated user-space devices to inject interrupts to the +VGIC instead of directly to CPUs. + +Creating a guest GICv3 device requires a host GICv3 as well. +GICv3 implementations with hardware compatibility support allow a guest GICv2 +as well. + +Groups: + KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_ADDR + Attributes: + KVM_VGIC_V2_ADDR_TYPE_DIST (rw, 64-bit) + Base address in the guest physical address space of the GIC distributor + register mappings. Only valid for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V2. + This address needs to be 4K aligned and the region covers 4 KByte. + + KVM_VGIC_V2_ADDR_TYPE_CPU (rw, 64-bit) + Base address in the guest physical address space of the GIC virtual cpu + interface register mappings. Only valid for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V2. + This address needs to be 4K aligned and the region covers 4 KByte. + + KVM_VGIC_V3_ADDR_TYPE_DIST (rw, 64-bit) + Base address in the guest physical address space of the GICv3 distributor + register mappings. Only valid for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V3. + This address needs to be 64K aligned and the region covers 64 KByte. + + KVM_VGIC_V3_ADDR_TYPE_REDIST (rw, 64-bit) + Base address in the guest physical address space of the GICv3 + redistributor register mappings. There are two 64K pages for each + VCPU and all of the redistributor pages are contiguous. + Only valid for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V3. + This address needs to be 64K aligned. + + + KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_DIST_REGS + Attributes: + The attr field of kvm_device_attr encodes two values: + bits: | 63 .... 40 | 39 .. 32 | 31 .... 0 | + values: | reserved | cpu id | offset | + + All distributor regs are (rw, 32-bit) + + The offset is relative to the "Distributor base address" as defined in the + GICv2 specs. Getting or setting such a register has the same effect as + reading or writing the register on the actual hardware from the cpu + specified with cpu id field. Note that most distributor fields are not + banked, but return the same value regardless of the cpu id used to access + the register. + Limitations: + - Priorities are not implemented, and registers are RAZ/WI + - Currently only implemented for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V2. + Errors: + -ENODEV: Getting or setting this register is not yet supported + -EBUSY: One or more VCPUs are running + + KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CPU_REGS + Attributes: + The attr field of kvm_device_attr encodes two values: + bits: | 63 .... 40 | 39 .. 32 | 31 .... 0 | + values: | reserved | cpu id | offset | + + All CPU interface regs are (rw, 32-bit) + + The offset specifies the offset from the "CPU interface base address" as + defined in the GICv2 specs. Getting or setting such a register has the + same effect as reading or writing the register on the actual hardware. + + The Active Priorities Registers APRn are implementation defined, so we set a + fixed format for our implementation that fits with the model of a "GICv2 + implementation without the security extensions" which we present to the + guest. This interface always exposes four register APR[0-3] describing the + maximum possible 128 preemption levels. The semantics of the register + indicate if any interrupts in a given preemption level are in the active + state by setting the corresponding bit. + + Thus, preemption level X has one or more active interrupts if and only if: + + APRn[X mod 32] == 0b1, where n = X / 32 + + Bits for undefined preemption levels are RAZ/WI. + + Limitations: + - Priorities are not implemented, and registers are RAZ/WI + - Currently only implemented for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V2. + Errors: + -ENODEV: Getting or setting this register is not yet supported + -EBUSY: One or more VCPUs are running + + KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_NR_IRQS + Attributes: + A value describing the number of interrupts (SGI, PPI and SPI) for + this GIC instance, ranging from 64 to 1024, in increments of 32. + + Errors: + -EINVAL: Value set is out of the expected range + -EBUSY: Value has already be set, or GIC has already been initialized + with default values. + + KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CTRL + Attributes: + KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_CTRL_INIT + request the initialization of the VGIC, no additional parameter in + kvm_device_attr.addr. + Errors: + -ENXIO: VGIC not properly configured as required prior to calling + this attribute + -ENODEV: no online VCPU + -ENOMEM: memory shortage when allocating vgic internal data |