linux/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic.txt
Andre Przywara 4fa96afd94 arm/arm64: KVM: force alignment of VGIC dist/CPU/redist addresses
Although the GIC architecture requires us to map the MMIO regions
only at page aligned addresses, we currently do not enforce this from
the kernel side.
Restrict any vGICv2 regions to be 4K aligned and any GICv3 regions
to be 64K aligned. Document this requirement.

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
2015-01-20 18:25:33 +01:00

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ARM Virtual Generic Interrupt Controller (VGIC)
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Device types supported:
KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V2 ARM Generic Interrupt Controller v2.0
KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V3 ARM Generic Interrupt Controller v3.0
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.
Creating a guest GICv3 device requires a host GICv3 as well.
GICv3 implementations with hardware compatibility support allow a guest GICv2
as well.
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.
KVM_VGIC_V3_ADDR_TYPE_DIST (rw, 64-bit)
Base address in the guest physical address space of the GICv3 distributor
register mappings. Only valid for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V3.
This address needs to be 64K aligned and the region covers 64 KByte.
KVM_VGIC_V3_ADDR_TYPE_REDIST (rw, 64-bit)
Base address in the guest physical address space of the GICv3
redistributor register mappings. There are two 64K pages for each
VCPU and all of the redistributor pages are contiguous.
Only valid for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V3.
This address needs to be 64K aligned.
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 | cpu id | 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
specified with cpu id field. Note that most distributor fields are not
banked, but return the same value regardless of the cpu id 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:
-ENODEV: Getting or setting this register is not yet supported
-EBUSY: One or more VCPUs are running
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 | cpu id | 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.
Limitations:
- Priorities are not implemented, and registers are RAZ/WI
- Currently only implemented for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V2.
Errors:
-ENODEV: Getting or setting this register is not yet supported
-EBUSY: One or more VCPUs are running
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, 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