[PATCH v3 36/36] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Communicate userspace-driveable PPIs via a UAPI

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Fri, 9 Jan 2026 17:04:50 +0000
Sascha Bischoff <Sascha.Bischoff at arm.com> wrote:

> GICv5 systems will likely not support the full set of PPIs. The
> presence of any virtual PPI is tied to the presence of the physical
> PPI. Therefore, the available PPIs will be limited by the physical
> host. Userspace cannot drive any PPIs that are not implemented.
> 
> Moreover, it is not desirable to expose all PPIs to the guest in the
> first place, even if they are supported in hardware. Some devices,
> such as the arch timer, are implemented in KVM, and hence those PPIs
> shouldn't be driven by userspace, either.
> 
> Provided a new UAPI:
>   KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CTRL => KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_USERPSPACE_PPIs
> 
> This allows userspace to query which PPIs it is able to drive via
> KVM_IRQ_LINE.
> 
> Additionally, introduce a check in kvm_vm_ioctl_irq_line() to reject
> any PPIs not in the userspace mask.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff at arm.com>
> 
> FOLD: Limit KVM_IRQ_LINE PPIs

Looks like you did a squash rather than a fixup merge and failed to drop this.

Otherwise, just one trivial thing below.

Thanks,

Jonathan

> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
> index 1cfd1e53b060e..e15c97395f50f 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
> @@ -1437,6 +1437,14 @@ int kvm_vm_ioctl_irq_line(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_irq_level *irq_level,
>  			if (irq_num >= VGIC_V5_NR_PRIVATE_IRQS)
>  				return -EINVAL;
>  
> +			/*
> +			 * Only allow PPIs that are explicitly exposed to
> +			 * usespace to be driven via KVM_IRQ_LINE
> +			 */
> +			u64 mask = kvm->arch.vgic.gicv5_vm.userspace_ppis[irq_num / 64];

Inline declarations are still normally limited to when we need to have
them, e.g for cleanup.h stuff.  So declare mask at top of appropriate
scope.

> +			if (!(mask & BIT_ULL(irq_num % 64)))
> +				return -EINVAL;
> +
>  			/* Build a GICv5-style IntID here */
>  			irq_num |= FIELD_PREP(GICV5_HWIRQ_TYPE, GICV5_HWIRQ_TYPE_PPI);
>  		} else if (irq_num < VGIC_NR_SGIS ||