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ARM Virtual Generic Interrupt Controller v2 (VGIC)
==================================================

Device types supported:
  KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V2     ARM Generic Interrupt Controller v2.0

Only one VGIC instance may be instantiated through either this API or the
legacy KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP API.  The created VGIC will act as the VM interrupt
controller, requiring emulated user-space devices to inject interrupts to the
VGIC instead of directly to CPUs.

GICv3 implementations with hardware compatibility support allow creating a
guest GICv2 through this interface.  For information on creating a guest GICv3
device and guest ITS devices, see arm-vgic-v3.txt.  It is not possible to
create both a GICv3 and GICv2 device on the same VM.


Groups:
  KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_ADDR
  Attributes:
    KVM_VGIC_V2_ADDR_TYPE_DIST (rw, 64-bit)
      Base address in the guest physical address space of the GIC distributor
      register mappings. Only valid for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V2.
      This address needs to be 4K aligned and the region covers 4 KByte.

    KVM_VGIC_V2_ADDR_TYPE_CPU (rw, 64-bit)
      Base address in the guest physical address space of the GIC virtual cpu
      interface register mappings. Only valid for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V2.
      This address needs to be 4K aligned and the region covers 4 KByte.
  Errors:
    -E2BIG:  Address outside of addressable IPA range
    -EINVAL: Incorrectly aligned address
    -EEXIST: Address already configured
    -ENXIO:  The group or attribute is unknown/unsupported for this device
             or hardware support is missing.
    -EFAULT: Invalid user pointer for attr->addr.

  KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_DIST_REGS
  Attributes:
    The attr field of kvm_device_attr encodes two values:
    bits:     | 63   ....  40 | 39 ..  32  |  31   ....    0 |
    values:   |    reserved   | vcpu_index |      offset     |

    All distributor regs are (rw, 32-bit)

    The offset is relative to the "Distributor base address" as defined in the
    GICv2 specs.  Getting or setting such a register has the same effect as
    reading or writing the register on the actual hardware from the cpu whose
    index is specified with the vcpu_index field.  Note that most distributor
    fields are not banked, but return the same value regardless of the
    vcpu_index used to access the register.
  Limitations:
    - Priorities are not implemented, and registers are RAZ/WI
    - Currently only implemented for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V2.
  Errors:
    -ENXIO: Getting or setting this register is not yet supported
    -EBUSY: One or more VCPUs are running
    -EINVAL: Invalid vcpu_index supplied

  KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CPU_REGS
  Attributes:
    The attr field of kvm_device_attr encodes two values:
    bits:     | 63   ....  40 | 39 ..  32  |  31   ....    0 |
    values:   |    reserved   | vcpu_index |      offset     |

    All CPU interface regs are (rw, 32-bit)

    The offset specifies the offset from the "CPU interface base address" as
    defined in the GICv2 specs.  Getting or setting such a register has the
    same effect as reading or writing the register on the actual hardware.

    The Active Priorities Registers APRn are implementation defined, so we set a
    fixed format for our implementation that fits with the model of a "GICv2
    implementation without the security extensions" which we present to the
    guest.  This interface always exposes four register APR[0-3] describing the
    maximum possible 128 preemption levels.  The semantics of the register
    indicate if any interrupts in a given preemption level are in the active
    state by setting the corresponding bit.

    Thus, preemption level X has one or more active interrupts if and only if:

      APRn[X mod 32] == 0b1,  where n = X / 32

    Bits for undefined preemption levels are RAZ/WI.

    Note that this differs from a CPU's view of the APRs on hardware in which
    a GIC without the security extensions expose group 0 and group 1 active
    priorities in separate register groups, whereas we show a combined view
    similar to GICv2's GICH_APR.

    For historical reasons and to provide ABI compatibility with userspace we
    export the GICC_PMR register in the format of the GICH_VMCR.VMPriMask
    field in the lower 5 bits of a word, meaning that userspace must always
    use the lower 5 bits to communicate with the KVM device and must shift the
    value left by 3 places to obtain the actual priority mask level.

  Limitations:
    - Priorities are not implemented, and registers are RAZ/WI
    - Currently only implemented for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V2.
  Errors:
    -ENXIO: Getting or setting this register is not yet supported
    -EBUSY: One or more VCPUs are running
    -EINVAL: Invalid vcpu_index supplied

  KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_NR_IRQS
  Attributes:
    A value describing the number of interrupts (SGI, PPI and SPI) for
    this GIC instance, ranging from 64 to 1024, in increments of 32.

  Errors:
    -EINVAL: Value set is out of the expected range
    -EBUSY: Value has already be set, or GIC has already been initialized
            with default values.

  KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CTRL
  Attributes:
    KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_CTRL_INIT
      request the initialization of the VGIC or ITS, no additional parameter
      in kvm_device_attr.addr.
  Errors:
    -ENXIO: VGIC not properly configured as required prior to calling
     this attribute
    -ENODEV: no online VCPU
    -ENOMEM: memory shortage when allocating vgic internal data