[PATCH v7 19/20] arm/arm64: KVM: allow userland to request a virtual GICv3

Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Thu Jan 15 04:27:02 PST 2015


On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 04:31:23PM +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.
> Document that KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP only works for GICv2, but is
> considered legacy and using KVM_CREATE_DEVICE is preferred.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>

Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>



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