linux/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic.txt

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
  KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_ITS    ARM Interrupt Translation Service Controller

Only one VGIC instance of the V2/V3 types above 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.

Creating a virtual ITS controller requires a host GICv3 (but does not depend
on having physical ITS controllers).
There can be multiple ITS controllers per guest, each of them has to have
a separate, non-overlapping MMIO region.

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_VGIC_V3_ADDR_TYPE_ITS (rw, 64-bit)
      Base address in the guest physical address space of the GICv3 ITS
      control register frame. The ITS allows MSI(-X) interrupts to be
      injected into guests. This extension is optional. If the kernel
      does not support the ITS, the call returns -ENODEV.
      Only valid for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_ITS.
      This address needs to be 64K aligned and the region covers 128K.

  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.

  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