[PATCH v5 19/19] arm/arm64: KVM: allow userland to request a virtual GICv3
Christoffer Dall
christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Sat Dec 13 05:45:02 PST 2014
On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 12:37:54PM +0000, Andre Przywara wrote:
> With all of the GICv3 code in place now we allow userland to ask the
> kernel for using a virtual GICv3 in the guest.
> Also we provide the necessary support for guests setting the memory
> addresses for the virtual distributor and redistributors.
> This requires some userland code to make use of that feature and
> explicitly ask for a virtual GICv3.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
> ---
> Changelog v4...v5:
> - improving documentation text
>
> Changelog v3...v4:
> - refine commit message
> - add documentation of new GICv3 KVM device
>
> Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic.txt | 22 ++++++++++--
> arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h | 7 ++++
> include/kvm/arm_vgic.h | 4 +--
> virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v3-emul.c | 3 ++
> virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++-------
> 5 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic.txt
> index df8b0c7..563463e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic.txt
> @@ -3,22 +3,38 @@ ARM Virtual Generic Interrupt Controller (VGIC)
>
> 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.
> + register mappings. Only valid for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V2.
>
> 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.
> + interface register mappings. Only valid for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V2.
> +
> + 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.
> +
Are there no alignment restrictions to worry about that we should
document here?
-Christoffer
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