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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-05-05 14:47:31 -0700
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Merge tag 'kvm-3.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Pull kvm updates from Gleb Natapov: "Highlights of the updates are: general: - new emulated device API - legacy device assignment is now optional - irqfd interface is more generic and can be shared between arches x86: - VMCS shadow support and other nested VMX improvements - APIC virtualization and Posted Interrupt hardware support - Optimize mmio spte zapping ppc: - BookE: in-kernel MPIC emulation with irqfd support - Book3S: in-kernel XICS emulation (incomplete) - Book3S: HV: migration fixes - BookE: more debug support preparation - BookE: e6500 support ARM: - reworking of Hyp idmaps s390: - ioeventfd for virtio-ccw And many other bug fixes, cleanups and improvements" * tag 'kvm-3.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (204 commits) kvm: Add compat_ioctl for device control API KVM: x86: Account for failing enable_irq_window for NMI window request KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add API for in-kernel XICS emulation kvm/ppc/mpic: fix missing unlock in set_base_addr() kvm/ppc: Hold srcu lock when calling kvm_io_bus_read/write kvm/ppc/mpic: remove users kvm/ppc/mpic: fix mmio region lists when multiple guests used kvm/ppc/mpic: remove default routes from documentation kvm: KVM_CAP_IOMMU only available with device assignment ARM: KVM: iterate over all CPUs for CPU compatibility check KVM: ARM: Fix spelling in error message ARM: KVM: define KVM_ARM_MAX_VCPUS unconditionally KVM: ARM: Fix API documentation for ONE_REG encoding ARM: KVM: promote vfp_host pointer to generic host cpu context ARM: KVM: add architecture specific hook for capabilities ARM: KVM: perform HYP initilization for hotplugged CPUs ARM: KVM: switch to a dual-step HYP init code ARM: KVM: rework HYP page table freeing ARM: KVM: enforce maximum size for identity mapped code ARM: KVM: move to a KVM provided HYP idmap ...
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+XICS interrupt controller
+
+Device type supported: KVM_DEV_TYPE_XICS
+
+Groups:
+ KVM_DEV_XICS_SOURCES
+ Attributes: One per interrupt source, indexed by the source number.
+
+This device emulates the XICS (eXternal Interrupt Controller
+Specification) defined in PAPR. The XICS has a set of interrupt
+sources, each identified by a 20-bit source number, and a set of
+Interrupt Control Presentation (ICP) entities, also called "servers",
+each associated with a virtual CPU.
+
+The ICP entities are created by enabling the KVM_CAP_IRQ_ARCH
+capability for each vcpu, specifying KVM_CAP_IRQ_XICS in args[0] and
+the interrupt server number (i.e. the vcpu number from the XICS's
+point of view) in args[1] of the kvm_enable_cap struct. Each ICP has
+64 bits of state which can be read and written using the
+KVM_GET_ONE_REG and KVM_SET_ONE_REG ioctls on the vcpu. The 64 bit
+state word has the following bitfields, starting at the
+least-significant end of the word:
+
+* Unused, 16 bits
+
+* Pending interrupt priority, 8 bits
+ Zero is the highest priority, 255 means no interrupt is pending.
+
+* Pending IPI (inter-processor interrupt) priority, 8 bits
+ Zero is the highest priority, 255 means no IPI is pending.
+
+* Pending interrupt source number, 24 bits
+ Zero means no interrupt pending, 2 means an IPI is pending
+
+* Current processor priority, 8 bits
+ Zero is the highest priority, meaning no interrupts can be
+ delivered, and 255 is the lowest priority.
+
+Each source has 64 bits of state that can be read and written using
+the KVM_GET_DEVICE_ATTR and KVM_SET_DEVICE_ATTR ioctls, specifying the
+KVM_DEV_XICS_SOURCES attribute group, with the attribute number being
+the interrupt source number. The 64 bit state word has the following
+bitfields, starting from the least-significant end of the word:
+
+* Destination (server number), 32 bits
+ This specifies where the interrupt should be sent, and is the
+ interrupt server number specified for the destination vcpu.
+
+* Priority, 8 bits
+ This is the priority specified for this interrupt source, where 0 is
+ the highest priority and 255 is the lowest. An interrupt with a
+ priority of 255 will never be delivered.
+
+* Level sensitive flag, 1 bit
+ This bit is 1 for a level-sensitive interrupt source, or 0 for
+ edge-sensitive (or MSI).
+
+* Masked flag, 1 bit
+ This bit is set to 1 if the interrupt is masked (cannot be delivered
+ regardless of its priority), for example by the ibm,int-off RTAS
+ call, or 0 if it is not masked.
+
+* Pending flag, 1 bit
+ This bit is 1 if the source has a pending interrupt, otherwise 0.
+
+Only one XICS instance may be created per VM.