1 FLIC (floating interrupt controller)
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4 FLIC handles floating (non per-cpu) interrupts, i.e. I/O, service and some
5 machine check interruptions. All interrupts are stored in a per-vm list of
6 pending interrupts. FLIC performs operations on this list.
8 Only one FLIC instance may be instantiated.
10 FLIC provides support to
11 - add interrupts (KVM_DEV_FLIC_ENQUEUE)
12 - inspect currently pending interrupts (KVM_FLIC_GET_ALL_IRQS)
13 - purge all pending floating interrupts (KVM_DEV_FLIC_CLEAR_IRQS)
14 - purge one pending floating I/O interrupt (KVM_DEV_FLIC_CLEAR_IO_IRQ)
15 - enable/disable for the guest transparent async page faults
16 - register and modify adapter interrupt sources (KVM_DEV_FLIC_ADAPTER_*)
17 - modify AIS (adapter-interruption-suppression) mode state (KVM_DEV_FLIC_AISM)
18 - inject adapter interrupts on a specified adapter (KVM_DEV_FLIC_AIRQ_INJECT)
19 - get/set all AIS mode states (KVM_DEV_FLIC_AISM_ALL)
23 Passes a buffer and length into the kernel which are then injected into
24 the list of pending interrupts.
25 attr->addr contains the pointer to the buffer and attr->attr contains
26 the length of the buffer.
27 The format of the data structure kvm_s390_irq as it is copied from userspace
28 is defined in usr/include/linux/kvm.h.
30 KVM_DEV_FLIC_GET_ALL_IRQS
31 Copies all floating interrupts into a buffer provided by userspace.
32 When the buffer is too small it returns -ENOMEM, which is the indication
33 for userspace to try again with a bigger buffer.
34 -ENOBUFS is returned when the allocation of a kernelspace buffer has
36 -EFAULT is returned when copying data to userspace failed.
37 All interrupts remain pending, i.e. are not deleted from the list of
38 currently pending interrupts.
39 attr->addr contains the userspace address of the buffer into which all
40 interrupt data will be copied.
41 attr->attr contains the size of the buffer in bytes.
43 KVM_DEV_FLIC_CLEAR_IRQS
44 Simply deletes all elements from the list of currently pending floating
45 interrupts. No interrupts are injected into the guest.
47 KVM_DEV_FLIC_CLEAR_IO_IRQ
48 Deletes one (if any) I/O interrupt for a subchannel identified by the
49 subsystem identification word passed via the buffer specified by
50 attr->addr (address) and attr->attr (length).
52 KVM_DEV_FLIC_APF_ENABLE
53 Enables async page faults for the guest. So in case of a major page fault
54 the host is allowed to handle this async and continues the guest.
56 KVM_DEV_FLIC_APF_DISABLE_WAIT
57 Disables async page faults for the guest and waits until already pending
58 async page faults are done. This is necessary to trigger a completion interrupt
59 for every init interrupt before migrating the interrupt list.
61 KVM_DEV_FLIC_ADAPTER_REGISTER
62 Register an I/O adapter interrupt source. Takes a kvm_s390_io_adapter
63 describing the adapter to register:
65 struct kvm_s390_io_adapter {
73 id contains the unique id for the adapter, isc the I/O interruption subclass
74 to use, maskable whether this adapter may be masked (interrupts turned off),
75 swap whether the indicators need to be byte swapped, and flags contains
76 further characteristics of the adapter.
77 Currently defined values for 'flags' are:
78 - KVM_S390_ADAPTER_SUPPRESSIBLE: adapter is subject to AIS
79 (adapter-interrupt-suppression) facility. This flag only has an effect if
80 the AIS capability is enabled.
81 Unknown flag values are ignored.
84 KVM_DEV_FLIC_ADAPTER_MODIFY
85 Modifies attributes of an existing I/O adapter interrupt source. Takes
86 a kvm_s390_io_adapter_req specifying the adapter and the operation:
88 struct kvm_s390_io_adapter_req {
96 id specifies the adapter and type the operation. The supported operations
99 KVM_S390_IO_ADAPTER_MASK
100 mask or unmask the adapter, as specified in mask
102 KVM_S390_IO_ADAPTER_MAP
103 perform a gmap translation for the guest address provided in addr,
104 pin a userspace page for the translated address and add it to the
106 Note: A new mapping will be created unconditionally; therefore,
107 the calling code should avoid making duplicate mappings.
109 KVM_S390_IO_ADAPTER_UNMAP
110 release a userspace page for the translated address specified in addr
111 from the list of mappings
114 modify the adapter-interruption-suppression mode for a given isc if the
115 AIS capability is enabled. Takes a kvm_s390_ais_req describing:
117 struct kvm_s390_ais_req {
122 isc contains the target I/O interruption subclass, mode the target
123 adapter-interruption-suppression mode. The following modes are
125 - KVM_S390_AIS_MODE_ALL: ALL-Interruptions Mode, i.e. airq injection
127 - KVM_S390_AIS_MODE_SINGLE: SINGLE-Interruption Mode, i.e. airq
128 injection is only allowed once and the following adapter interrupts
129 will be suppressed until the mode is set again to ALL-Interruptions
130 or SINGLE-Interruption mode.
132 KVM_DEV_FLIC_AIRQ_INJECT
133 Inject adapter interrupts on a specified adapter.
134 attr->attr contains the unique id for the adapter, which allows for
135 adapter-specific checks and actions.
136 For adapters subject to AIS, handle the airq injection suppression for
137 an isc according to the adapter-interruption-suppression mode on condition
138 that the AIS capability is enabled.
140 KVM_DEV_FLIC_AISM_ALL
141 Gets or sets the adapter-interruption-suppression mode for all ISCs. Takes
142 a kvm_s390_ais_all describing:
144 struct kvm_s390_ais_all {
145 __u8 simm; /* Single-Interruption-Mode mask */
146 __u8 nimm; /* No-Interruption-Mode mask *
149 simm contains Single-Interruption-Mode mask for all ISCs, nimm contains
150 No-Interruption-Mode mask for all ISCs. Each bit in simm and nimm corresponds
151 to an ISC (MSB0 bit 0 to ISC 0 and so on). The combination of simm bit and
152 nimm bit presents AIS mode for a ISC.
154 KVM_DEV_FLIC_AISM_ALL is indicated by KVM_CAP_S390_AIS_MIGRATION.
156 Note: The KVM_SET_DEVICE_ATTR/KVM_GET_DEVICE_ATTR device ioctls executed on
157 FLIC with an unknown group or attribute gives the error code EINVAL (instead of
158 ENXIO, as specified in the API documentation). It is not possible to conclude
159 that a FLIC operation is unavailable based on the error code resulting from a
162 Note: The KVM_DEV_FLIC_CLEAR_IO_IRQ ioctl will return EINVAL in case a zero