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1ARM Virtual Interrupt Translation Service (ITS)
2===============================================
3
4Device types supported:
5  KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_ITS    ARM Interrupt Translation Service Controller
6
7The ITS allows MSI(-X) interrupts to be injected into guests. This extension is
8optional.  Creating a virtual ITS controller also requires a host GICv3 (see
9arm-vgic-v3.txt), but does not depend on having physical ITS controllers.
10
11There can be multiple ITS controllers per guest, each of them has to have
12a separate, non-overlapping MMIO region.
13
14
15Groups:
16  KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_ADDR
17  Attributes:
18    KVM_VGIC_ITS_ADDR_TYPE (rw, 64-bit)
19      Base address in the guest physical address space of the GICv3 ITS
20      control register frame.
21      This address needs to be 64K aligned and the region covers 128K.
22  Errors:
23    -E2BIG:  Address outside of addressable IPA range
24    -EINVAL: Incorrectly aligned address
25    -EEXIST: Address already configured
26    -EFAULT: Invalid user pointer for attr->addr.
27    -ENODEV: Incorrect attribute or the ITS is not supported.
28
29
30  KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CTRL
31  Attributes:
32    KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_CTRL_INIT
33      request the initialization of the ITS, no additional parameter in
34      kvm_device_attr.addr.
35
36    KVM_DEV_ARM_ITS_SAVE_TABLES
37      save the ITS table data into guest RAM, at the location provisioned
38      by the guest in corresponding registers/table entries.
39
40      The layout of the tables in guest memory defines an ABI. The entries
41      are laid out in little endian format as described in the last paragraph.
42
43    KVM_DEV_ARM_ITS_RESTORE_TABLES
44      restore the ITS tables from guest RAM to ITS internal structures.
45
46      The GICV3 must be restored before the ITS and all ITS registers but
47      the GITS_CTLR must be restored before restoring the ITS tables.
48
49      The GITS_IIDR read-only register must also be restored before
50      calling KVM_DEV_ARM_ITS_RESTORE_TABLES as the IIDR revision field
51      encodes the ABI revision.
52
53      The expected ordering when restoring the GICv3/ITS is described in section
54      "ITS Restore Sequence".
55
56  Errors:
57    -ENXIO:  ITS not properly configured as required prior to setting
58             this attribute
59    -ENOMEM: Memory shortage when allocating ITS internal data
60    -EINVAL: Inconsistent restored data
61    -EFAULT: Invalid guest ram access
62    -EBUSY:  One or more VCPUS are running
63
64  KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_ITS_REGS
65  Attributes:
66      The attr field of kvm_device_attr encodes the offset of the
67      ITS register, relative to the ITS control frame base address
68      (ITS_base).
69
70      kvm_device_attr.addr points to a __u64 value whatever the width
71      of the addressed register (32/64 bits). 64 bit registers can only
72      be accessed with full length.
73
74      Writes to read-only registers are ignored by the kernel except for:
75      - GITS_CREADR. It must be restored otherwise commands in the queue
76        will be re-executed after restoring CWRITER. GITS_CREADR must be
77        restored before restoring the GITS_CTLR which is likely to enable the
78        ITS. Also it must be restored after GITS_CBASER since a write to
79        GITS_CBASER resets GITS_CREADR.
80      - GITS_IIDR. The Revision field encodes the table layout ABI revision.
81        In the future we might implement direct injection of virtual LPIs.
82        This will require an upgrade of the table layout and an evolution of
83        the ABI. GITS_IIDR must be restored before calling
84        KVM_DEV_ARM_ITS_RESTORE_TABLES.
85
86      For other registers, getting or setting a register has the same
87      effect as reading/writing the register on real hardware.
88  Errors:
89    -ENXIO: Offset does not correspond to any supported register
90    -EFAULT: Invalid user pointer for attr->addr
91    -EINVAL: Offset is not 64-bit aligned
92    -EBUSY: one or more VCPUS are running
93
94 ITS Restore Sequence:
95 -------------------------
96
97The following ordering must be followed when restoring the GIC and the ITS:
98a) restore all guest memory and create vcpus
99b) restore all redistributors
100c) provide the its base address
101   (KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_ADDR)
102d) restore the ITS in the following order:
103   1. Restore GITS_CBASER
104   2. Restore all other GITS_ registers, except GITS_CTLR!
105   3. Load the ITS table data (KVM_DEV_ARM_ITS_RESTORE_TABLES)
106   4. Restore GITS_CTLR
107
108Then vcpus can be started.
109
110 ITS Table ABI REV0:
111 -------------------
112
113 Revision 0 of the ABI only supports the features of a virtual GICv3, and does
114 not support a virtual GICv4 with support for direct injection of virtual
115 interrupts for nested hypervisors.
116
117 The device table and ITT are indexed by the DeviceID and EventID,
118 respectively. The collection table is not indexed by CollectionID, and the
119 entries in the collection are listed in no particular order.
120 All entries are 8 bytes.
121
122 Device Table Entry (DTE):
123
124 bits:     | 63| 62 ... 49 | 48 ... 5 | 4 ... 0 |
125 values:   | V |   next    | ITT_addr |  Size   |
126
127 where;
128 - V indicates whether the entry is valid. If not, other fields
129   are not meaningful.
130 - next: equals to 0 if this entry is the last one; otherwise it
131   corresponds to the DeviceID offset to the next DTE, capped by
132   2^14 -1.
133 - ITT_addr matches bits [51:8] of the ITT address (256 Byte aligned).
134 - Size specifies the supported number of bits for the EventID,
135   minus one
136
137 Collection Table Entry (CTE):
138
139 bits:     | 63| 62 ..  52  | 51 ... 16 | 15  ...   0 |
140 values:   | V |    RES0    |  RDBase   |    ICID     |
141
142 where:
143 - V indicates whether the entry is valid. If not, other fields are
144   not meaningful.
145 - RES0: reserved field with Should-Be-Zero-or-Preserved behavior.
146 - RDBase is the PE number (GICR_TYPER.Processor_Number semantic),
147 - ICID is the collection ID
148
149 Interrupt Translation Entry (ITE):
150
151 bits:     | 63 ... 48 | 47 ... 16 | 15 ... 0 |
152 values:   |    next   |   pINTID  |  ICID    |
153
154 where:
155 - next: equals to 0 if this entry is the last one; otherwise it corresponds
156   to the EventID offset to the next ITE capped by 2^16 -1.
157 - pINTID is the physical LPI ID; if zero, it means the entry is not valid
158   and other fields are not meaningful.
159 - ICID is the collection ID
160