1 .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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4 ARM Virtual Generic Interrupt Controller v3 and later (VGICv3)
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8 Device types supported:
9 - KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V3 ARM Generic Interrupt Controller v3.0
11 Only one VGIC instance may be instantiated through this API. The created VGIC
12 will act as the VM interrupt controller, requiring emulated user-space devices
13 to inject interrupts to the VGIC instead of directly to CPUs. It is not
14 possible to create both a GICv3 and GICv2 on the same VM.
16 Creating a guest GICv3 device requires a host GICv3 as well.
20 KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_ADDR
23 KVM_VGIC_V3_ADDR_TYPE_DIST (rw, 64-bit)
24 Base address in the guest physical address space of the GICv3 distributor
25 register mappings. Only valid for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V3.
26 This address needs to be 64K aligned and the region covers 64 KByte.
28 KVM_VGIC_V3_ADDR_TYPE_REDIST (rw, 64-bit)
29 Base address in the guest physical address space of the GICv3
30 redistributor register mappings. There are two 64K pages for each
31 VCPU and all of the redistributor pages are contiguous.
32 Only valid for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V3.
33 This address needs to be 64K aligned.
35 KVM_VGIC_V3_ADDR_TYPE_REDIST_REGION (rw, 64-bit)
36 The attribute data pointed to by kvm_device_attr.addr is a __u64 value::
38 bits: | 63 .... 52 | 51 .... 16 | 15 - 12 |11 - 0
39 values: | count | base | flags | index
41 - index encodes the unique redistributor region index
42 - flags: reserved for future use, currently 0
43 - base field encodes bits [51:16] of the guest physical base address
44 of the first redistributor in the region.
45 - count encodes the number of redistributors in the region. Must be
48 There are two 64K pages for each redistributor in the region and
49 redistributors are laid out contiguously within the region. Regions
50 are filled with redistributors in the index order. The sum of all
51 region count fields must be greater than or equal to the number of
52 VCPUs. Redistributor regions must be registered in the incremental
53 index order, starting from index 0.
55 The characteristics of a specific redistributor region can be read
56 by presetting the index field in the attr data.
57 Only valid for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V3.
59 It is invalid to mix calls with KVM_VGIC_V3_ADDR_TYPE_REDIST and
60 KVM_VGIC_V3_ADDR_TYPE_REDIST_REGION attributes.
64 ======= =============================================================
65 -E2BIG Address outside of addressable IPA range
66 -EINVAL Incorrectly aligned address, bad redistributor region
67 count/index, mixed redistributor region attribute usage
68 -EEXIST Address already configured
69 -ENOENT Attempt to read the characteristics of a non existing
71 -ENXIO The group or attribute is unknown/unsupported for this device
72 or hardware support is missing.
73 -EFAULT Invalid user pointer for attr->addr.
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77 KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_DIST_REGS, KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_REDIST_REGS
80 The attr field of kvm_device_attr encodes two values::
82 bits: | 63 .... 32 | 31 .... 0 |
83 values: | mpidr | offset |
85 All distributor regs are (rw, 32-bit) and kvm_device_attr.addr points to a
86 __u32 value. 64-bit registers must be accessed by separately accessing the
87 lower and higher word.
89 Writes to read-only registers are ignored by the kernel.
91 KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_DIST_REGS accesses the main distributor registers.
92 KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_REDIST_REGS accesses the redistributor of the CPU
93 specified by the mpidr.
95 The offset is relative to the "[Re]Distributor base address" as defined
96 in the GICv3/4 specs. Getting or setting such a register has the same
97 effect as reading or writing the register on real hardware, except for the
98 following registers: GICD_STATUSR, GICR_STATUSR, GICD_ISPENDR,
99 GICR_ISPENDR0, GICD_ICPENDR, and GICR_ICPENDR0. These registers behave
100 differently when accessed via this interface compared to their
101 architecturally defined behavior to allow software a full view of the
102 VGIC's internal state.
104 The mpidr field is used to specify which
105 redistributor is accessed. The mpidr is ignored for the distributor.
107 The mpidr encoding is based on the affinity information in the
108 architecture defined MPIDR, and the field is encoded as follows::
110 | 63 .... 56 | 55 .... 48 | 47 .... 40 | 39 .... 32 |
111 | Aff3 | Aff2 | Aff1 | Aff0 |
113 Note that distributor fields are not banked, but return the same value
114 regardless of the mpidr used to access the register.
116 GICD_IIDR.Revision is updated when the KVM implementation is changed in a
117 way directly observable by the guest or userspace. Userspace should read
118 GICD_IIDR from KVM and write back the read value to confirm its expected
119 behavior is aligned with the KVM implementation. Userspace should set
120 GICD_IIDR before setting any other registers to ensure the expected
124 The GICD_STATUSR and GICR_STATUSR registers are architecturally defined such
125 that a write of a clear bit has no effect, whereas a write with a set bit
126 clears that value. To allow userspace to freely set the values of these two
127 registers, setting the attributes with the register offsets for these two
128 registers simply sets the non-reserved bits to the value written.
131 Accesses (reads and writes) to the GICD_ISPENDR register region and
132 GICR_ISPENDR0 registers get/set the value of the latched pending state for
135 This is identical to the value returned by a guest read from ISPENDR for an
136 edge triggered interrupt, but may differ for level triggered interrupts.
137 For edge triggered interrupts, once an interrupt becomes pending (whether
138 because of an edge detected on the input line or because of a guest write
139 to ISPENDR) this state is "latched", and only cleared when either the
140 interrupt is activated or when the guest writes to ICPENDR. A level
141 triggered interrupt may be pending either because the level input is held
142 high by a device, or because of a guest write to the ISPENDR register. Only
143 ISPENDR writes are latched; if the device lowers the line level then the
144 interrupt is no longer pending unless the guest also wrote to ISPENDR, and
145 conversely writes to ICPENDR or activations of the interrupt do not clear
146 the pending status if the line level is still being held high. (These
147 rules are documented in the GICv3 specification descriptions of the ICPENDR
148 and ISPENDR registers.) For a level triggered interrupt the value accessed
149 here is that of the latch which is set by ISPENDR and cleared by ICPENDR or
150 interrupt activation, whereas the value returned by a guest read from
151 ISPENDR is the logical OR of the latch value and the input line level.
153 Raw access to the latch state is provided to userspace so that it can save
154 and restore the entire GIC internal state (which is defined by the
155 combination of the current input line level and the latch state, and cannot
156 be deduced from purely the line level and the value of the ISPENDR
159 Accesses to GICD_ICPENDR register region and GICR_ICPENDR0 registers have
160 RAZ/WI semantics, meaning that reads always return 0 and writes are always
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166 -ENXIO Getting or setting this register is not yet supported
167 -EBUSY One or more VCPUs are running
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171 KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CPU_SYSREGS
174 The attr field of kvm_device_attr encodes two values::
176 bits: | 63 .... 32 | 31 .... 16 | 15 .... 0 |
177 values: | mpidr | RES | instr |
179 The mpidr field encodes the CPU ID based on the affinity information in the
180 architecture defined MPIDR, and the field is encoded as follows::
182 | 63 .... 56 | 55 .... 48 | 47 .... 40 | 39 .... 32 |
183 | Aff3 | Aff2 | Aff1 | Aff0 |
185 The instr field encodes the system register to access based on the fields
186 defined in the A64 instruction set encoding for system register access
187 (RES means the bits are reserved for future use and should be zero)::
189 | 15 ... 14 | 13 ... 11 | 10 ... 7 | 6 ... 3 | 2 ... 0 |
190 | Op 0 | Op1 | CRn | CRm | Op2 |
192 All system regs accessed through this API are (rw, 64-bit) and
193 kvm_device_attr.addr points to a __u64 value.
195 KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CPU_SYSREGS accesses the CPU interface registers for the
196 CPU specified by the mpidr field.
198 CPU interface registers access is not implemented for AArch32 mode.
199 Error -ENXIO is returned when accessed in AArch32 mode.
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204 -ENXIO Getting or setting this register is not yet supported
205 -EBUSY VCPU is running
206 -EINVAL Invalid mpidr or register value supplied
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210 KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_NR_IRQS
213 A value describing the number of interrupts (SGI, PPI and SPI) for
214 this GIC instance, ranging from 64 to 1024, in increments of 32.
216 kvm_device_attr.addr points to a __u32 value.
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221 -EINVAL Value set is out of the expected range
222 -EBUSY Value has already be set.
223 ======= ======================================
226 KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CTRL
229 KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_CTRL_INIT
230 request the initialization of the VGIC, no additional parameter in
231 kvm_device_attr.addr.
232 KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_SAVE_PENDING_TABLES
233 save all LPI pending bits into guest RAM pending tables.
235 The first kB of the pending table is not altered by this operation.
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240 -ENXIO VGIC not properly configured as required prior to calling
242 -ENODEV no online VCPU
243 -ENOMEM memory shortage when allocating vgic internal data
244 -EFAULT Invalid guest ram access
245 -EBUSY One or more VCPUS are running
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249 KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_LEVEL_INFO
252 The attr field of kvm_device_attr encodes the following values::
254 bits: | 63 .... 32 | 31 .... 10 | 9 .... 0 |
255 values: | mpidr | info | vINTID |
257 The vINTID specifies which set of IRQs is reported on.
259 The info field specifies which information userspace wants to get or set
260 using this interface. Currently we support the following info values:
262 VGIC_LEVEL_INFO_LINE_LEVEL:
263 Get/Set the input level of the IRQ line for a set of 32 contiguously
266 vINTID must be a multiple of 32.
268 kvm_device_attr.addr points to a __u32 value which will contain a
269 bitmap where a set bit means the interrupt level is asserted.
271 Bit[n] indicates the status for interrupt vINTID + n.
273 SGIs and any interrupt with a higher ID than the number of interrupts
274 supported, will be RAZ/WI. LPIs are always edge-triggered and are
275 therefore not supported by this interface.
277 PPIs are reported per VCPU as specified in the mpidr field, and SPIs are
278 reported with the same value regardless of the mpidr specified.
280 The mpidr field encodes the CPU ID based on the affinity information in the
281 architecture defined MPIDR, and the field is encoded as follows::
283 | 63 .... 56 | 55 .... 48 | 47 .... 40 | 39 .... 32 |
284 | Aff3 | Aff2 | Aff1 | Aff0 |
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289 -EINVAL vINTID is not multiple of 32 or info field is
290 not VGIC_LEVEL_INFO_LINE_LEVEL
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