1 ARM Virtual Generic Interrupt Controller v2 (VGIC)
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4 Device types supported:
5 KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V2 ARM Generic Interrupt Controller v2.0
7 Only one VGIC instance may be instantiated through either this API or the
8 legacy KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP API. The created VGIC will act as the VM interrupt
9 controller, requiring emulated user-space devices to inject interrupts to the
10 VGIC instead of directly to CPUs.
12 GICv3 implementations with hardware compatibility support allow creating a
13 guest GICv2 through this interface. For information on creating a guest GICv3
14 device and guest ITS devices, see arm-vgic-v3.txt. It is not possible to
15 create both a GICv3 and GICv2 device on the same VM.
19 KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_ADDR
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.
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.
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.
38 KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_DIST_REGS
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 |
44 All distributor regs are (rw, 32-bit)
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.
53 - Priorities are not implemented, and registers are RAZ/WI
54 - Currently only implemented for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V2.
56 -ENXIO: Getting or setting this register is not yet supported
57 -EBUSY: One or more VCPUs are running
58 -EINVAL: Invalid vcpu_index supplied
60 KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CPU_REGS
62 The attr field of kvm_device_attr encodes two values:
63 bits: | 63 .... 40 | 39 .. 32 | 31 .... 0 |
64 values: | reserved | vcpu_index | offset |
66 All CPU interface regs are (rw, 32-bit)
68 The offset specifies the offset from the "CPU interface base address" as
69 defined in the GICv2 specs. Getting or setting such a register has the
70 same effect as reading or writing the register on the actual hardware.
72 The Active Priorities Registers APRn are implementation defined, so we set a
73 fixed format for our implementation that fits with the model of a "GICv2
74 implementation without the security extensions" which we present to the
75 guest. This interface always exposes four register APR[0-3] describing the
76 maximum possible 128 preemption levels. The semantics of the register
77 indicate if any interrupts in a given preemption level are in the active
78 state by setting the corresponding bit.
80 Thus, preemption level X has one or more active interrupts if and only if:
82 APRn[X mod 32] == 0b1, where n = X / 32
84 Bits for undefined preemption levels are RAZ/WI.
87 - Priorities are not implemented, and registers are RAZ/WI
88 - Currently only implemented for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V2.
90 -ENXIO: Getting or setting this register is not yet supported
91 -EBUSY: One or more VCPUs are running
92 -EINVAL: Invalid vcpu_index supplied
94 KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_NR_IRQS
96 A value describing the number of interrupts (SGI, PPI and SPI) for
97 this GIC instance, ranging from 64 to 1024, in increments of 32.
100 -EINVAL: Value set is out of the expected range
101 -EBUSY: Value has already be set, or GIC has already been initialized
104 KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CTRL
106 KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_CTRL_INIT
107 request the initialization of the VGIC or ITS, no additional parameter
108 in kvm_device_attr.addr.
110 -ENXIO: VGIC not properly configured as required prior to calling
112 -ENODEV: no online VCPU
113 -ENOMEM: memory shortage when allocating vgic internal data