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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virtual')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic.txt | 22 |
2 files changed, 28 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt index 0007fef4ed81..f4b19d78782b 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt @@ -612,11 +612,14 @@ Type: vm ioctl Parameters: none Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error -Creates an interrupt controller model in the kernel. On x86, creates a virtual -ioapic, a virtual PIC (two PICs, nested), and sets up future vcpus to have a -local APIC. IRQ routing for GSIs 0-15 is set to both PIC and IOAPIC; GSI 16-23 -only go to the IOAPIC. On ARM/arm64, a GIC is -created. On s390, a dummy irq routing table is created. +Creates an interrupt controller model in the kernel. +On x86, creates a virtual ioapic, a virtual PIC (two PICs, nested), and sets up +future vcpus to have a local APIC. IRQ routing for GSIs 0-15 is set to both +PIC and IOAPIC; GSI 16-23 only go to the IOAPIC. +On ARM/arm64, a GICv2 is created. Any other GIC versions require the usage of +KVM_CREATE_DEVICE, which also supports creating a GICv2. Using +KVM_CREATE_DEVICE is preferred over KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP for GICv2. +On s390, a dummy irq routing table is created. Note that on s390 the KVM_CAP_S390_IRQCHIP vm capability needs to be enabled before KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP can be used. 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 |