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| author | Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> | 2014-06-03 10:26:30 +0200 |
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| committer | Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> | 2015-01-20 18:25:33 +0100 |
| commit | ac3d373564d9744068d867a0eb16da2ff8d5ee9d (patch) | |
| tree | 2d1829a9ab353944b705149a05f53e75eccd77b0 /Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices | |
| parent | b5d84ff600a244b655bd4f657f5350f29b0ce611 (diff) | |
arm/arm64: KVM: allow userland to request a virtual GICv3
With all of the GICv3 code in place now we allow userland to ask the
kernel for using a virtual GICv3 in the guest.
Also we provide the necessary support for guests setting the memory
addresses for the virtual distributor and redistributors.
This requires some userland code to make use of that feature and
explicitly ask for a virtual GICv3.
Document that KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP only works for GICv2, but is
considered legacy and using KVM_CREATE_DEVICE is preferred.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic.txt | 22 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic.txt index 30f5427cf9b0..5d4fd4b944cd 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic.txt @@ -3,22 +3,38 @@ 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. + register mappings. Only valid for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V2. 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. + interface register mappings. Only valid for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V2. + + 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. + + 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. + KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_DIST_REGS Attributes: @@ -36,6 +52,7 @@ Groups: 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 @@ -68,6 +85,7 @@ Groups: 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 |