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1ARM Virtual Generic Interrupt Controller v2 (VGIC)
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3
4Device types supported:
5  KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V2     ARM Generic Interrupt Controller v2.0
6
7Only one VGIC instance may be instantiated through either this API or the
8legacy KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP API.  The created VGIC will act as the VM interrupt
9controller, requiring emulated user-space devices to inject interrupts to the
10VGIC instead of directly to CPUs.
11
12GICv3 implementations with hardware compatibility support allow creating a
13guest GICv2 through this interface.  For information on creating a guest GICv3
14device and guest ITS devices, see arm-vgic-v3.txt.  It is not possible to
15create both a GICv3 and GICv2 device on the same VM.
16
17
18Groups:
19  KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_ADDR
20  Attributes:
21    KVM_VGIC_V2_ADDR_TYPE_DIST (rw, 64-bit)
22      Base address in the guest physical address space of the GIC distributor
23      register mappings. Only valid for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V2.
24      This address needs to be 4K aligned and the region covers 4 KByte.
25
26    KVM_VGIC_V2_ADDR_TYPE_CPU (rw, 64-bit)
27      Base address in the guest physical address space of the GIC virtual cpu
28      interface register mappings. Only valid for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V2.
29      This address needs to be 4K aligned and the region covers 4 KByte.
30  Errors:
31    -E2BIG:  Address outside of addressable IPA range
32    -EINVAL: Incorrectly aligned address
33    -EEXIST: Address already configured
34    -ENXIO:  The group or attribute is unknown/unsupported for this device
35             or hardware support is missing.
36    -EFAULT: Invalid user pointer for attr->addr.
37
38  KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_DIST_REGS
39  Attributes:
40    The attr field of kvm_device_attr encodes two values:
41    bits:     | 63   ....  40 | 39 ..  32  |  31   ....    0 |
42    values:   |    reserved   | vcpu_index |      offset     |
43
44    All distributor regs are (rw, 32-bit)
45
46    The offset is relative to the "Distributor base address" as defined in the
47    GICv2 specs.  Getting or setting such a register has the same effect as
48    reading or writing the register on the actual hardware from the cpu whose
49    index is specified with the vcpu_index field.  Note that most distributor
50    fields are not banked, but return the same value regardless of the
51    vcpu_index used to access the register.
52
53    GICD_IIDR.Revision is updated when the KVM implementation of an emulated
54    GICv2 is changed in a way directly observable by the guest or userspace.
55    Userspace should read GICD_IIDR from KVM and write back the read value to
56    confirm its expected behavior is aligned with the KVM implementation.
57    Userspace should set GICD_IIDR before setting any other registers (both
58    KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_DIST_REGS and KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CPU_REGS) to ensure
59    the expected behavior. Unless GICD_IIDR has been set from userspace, writes
60    to the interrupt group registers (GICD_IGROUPR) are ignored.
61  Errors:
62    -ENXIO: Getting or setting this register is not yet supported
63    -EBUSY: One or more VCPUs are running
64    -EINVAL: Invalid vcpu_index supplied
65
66  KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CPU_REGS
67  Attributes:
68    The attr field of kvm_device_attr encodes two values:
69    bits:     | 63   ....  40 | 39 ..  32  |  31   ....    0 |
70    values:   |    reserved   | vcpu_index |      offset     |
71
72    All CPU interface regs are (rw, 32-bit)
73
74    The offset specifies the offset from the "CPU interface base address" as
75    defined in the GICv2 specs.  Getting or setting such a register has the
76    same effect as reading or writing the register on the actual hardware.
77
78    The Active Priorities Registers APRn are implementation defined, so we set a
79    fixed format for our implementation that fits with the model of a "GICv2
80    implementation without the security extensions" which we present to the
81    guest.  This interface always exposes four register APR[0-3] describing the
82    maximum possible 128 preemption levels.  The semantics of the register
83    indicate if any interrupts in a given preemption level are in the active
84    state by setting the corresponding bit.
85
86    Thus, preemption level X has one or more active interrupts if and only if:
87
88      APRn[X mod 32] == 0b1,  where n = X / 32
89
90    Bits for undefined preemption levels are RAZ/WI.
91
92    Note that this differs from a CPU's view of the APRs on hardware in which
93    a GIC without the security extensions expose group 0 and group 1 active
94    priorities in separate register groups, whereas we show a combined view
95    similar to GICv2's GICH_APR.
96
97    For historical reasons and to provide ABI compatibility with userspace we
98    export the GICC_PMR register in the format of the GICH_VMCR.VMPriMask
99    field in the lower 5 bits of a word, meaning that userspace must always
100    use the lower 5 bits to communicate with the KVM device and must shift the
101    value left by 3 places to obtain the actual priority mask level.
102
103  Errors:
104    -ENXIO: Getting or setting this register is not yet supported
105    -EBUSY: One or more VCPUs are running
106    -EINVAL: Invalid vcpu_index supplied
107
108  KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_NR_IRQS
109  Attributes:
110    A value describing the number of interrupts (SGI, PPI and SPI) for
111    this GIC instance, ranging from 64 to 1024, in increments of 32.
112
113  Errors:
114    -EINVAL: Value set is out of the expected range
115    -EBUSY: Value has already be set, or GIC has already been initialized
116            with default values.
117
118  KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CTRL
119  Attributes:
120    KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_CTRL_INIT
121      request the initialization of the VGIC or ITS, no additional parameter
122      in kvm_device_attr.addr.
123  Errors:
124    -ENXIO: VGIC not properly configured as required prior to calling
125     this attribute
126    -ENODEV: no online VCPU
127    -ENOMEM: memory shortage when allocating vgic internal data
128