[PATCH v10 8/8] arm/arm64: Documentation: Update arm-vgic-v3.txt
Christoffer Dall
christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Fri Jan 20 11:57:22 PST 2017
On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 01:18:09PM +0100, Auger Eric wrote:
> Hi Vijaya,
>
> On 01/12/2016 08:09, vijay.kilari at gmail.com wrote:
> > From: Vijaya Kumar K <Vijaya.Kumar at cavium.com>
> >
> > Update error code returned for Invalid CPU interface register
> > value and access in AArch32 mode.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Vijaya Kumar K <Vijaya.Kumar at cavium.com>
> > ---
> > Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-v3.txt | 9 ++++++++-
> > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-v3.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-v3.txt
> > index 9348b3c..0f29850 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-v3.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-v3.txt
> > @@ -142,10 +142,12 @@ Groups:
> > KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_CPU_SYSREGS accesses the CPU interface registers for the
> > CPU specified by the mpidr field.
> >
> > + CPU interface registers access is not implemented for AArch32 mode.
> > + Error -ENXIO is returned when accessed in AArch32 mode.
> > Errors:
> > -ENXIO: Getting or setting this register is not yet supported
> > -EBUSY: VCPU is running
> > - -EINVAL: Invalid mpidr supplied
> > + -EINVAL: Invalid mpidr or register value supplied
> >
> >
> > KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_NR_IRQS
> > @@ -193,6 +195,11 @@ Groups:
> >
> > Bit[n] indicates the status for interrupt vINTID + n.
> >
> > + Getting or setting the level info for an edge-triggered interrupt is
> > + not guaranteed to work.
> I don't get this statement. is the API applicable to edge triggered IRQs?
>
I guess this could be clarified to "is ignored", but with the earlier
implementation you might be able to get away with doing
"line_level=x; config=LEVEL;", but you could then at the same time break
something with edge-triggered IRQs, so...
Thanks for looking at this in detail.
-Christoffer
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