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-rw-r--r--Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic.txt37
2 files changed, 43 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
index df19837e94d4..b112efc816f1 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 df8b0c7540b6..3fb905429e8a 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic.txt
@@ -3,22 +3,42 @@ 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.
+ 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.
+ 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:
@@ -36,6 +56,7 @@ 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 +89,7 @@ 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
@@ -81,3 +103,14 @@ Groups:
-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