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authorPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2013-04-26 20:28:37 -0400
committerAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>2013-05-02 09:28:36 -0400
commit5975a2e0950291a6bfe9fd5880e7952ff87764be (patch)
treea27a2f6645a74ad756ac4a3eba21e1086beab25d /Documentation/virtual
parentd133b40f2cdd527af01090ffd6a041485d1a29b4 (diff)
KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add API for in-kernel XICS emulation
This adds the API for userspace to instantiate an XICS device in a VM and connect VCPUs to it. The API consists of a new device type for the KVM_CREATE_DEVICE ioctl, a new capability KVM_CAP_IRQ_XICS, which functions similarly to KVM_CAP_IRQ_MPIC, and the KVM_IRQ_LINE ioctl, which is used to assert and deassert interrupt inputs of the XICS. The XICS device has one attribute group, KVM_DEV_XICS_GRP_SOURCES. Each attribute within this group corresponds to the state of one interrupt source. The attribute number is the same as the interrupt source number. This does not support irq routing or irqfd yet. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
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@@ -2772,3 +2772,11 @@ Parameters: args[0] is the MPIC device fd
2772 args[1] is the MPIC CPU number for this vcpu 2772 args[1] is the MPIC CPU number for this vcpu
2773 2773
2774This capability connects the vcpu to an in-kernel MPIC device. 2774This capability connects the vcpu to an in-kernel MPIC device.
2775
27766.7 KVM_CAP_IRQ_XICS
2777
2778Architectures: ppc
2779Parameters: args[0] is the XICS device fd
2780 args[1] is the XICS CPU number (server ID) for this vcpu
2781
2782This capability connects the vcpu to an in-kernel XICS device.
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/xics.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/xics.txt
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1XICS interrupt controller
2
3Device type supported: KVM_DEV_TYPE_XICS
4
5Groups:
6 KVM_DEV_XICS_SOURCES
7 Attributes: One per interrupt source, indexed by the source number.
8
9This device emulates the XICS (eXternal Interrupt Controller
10Specification) defined in PAPR. The XICS has a set of interrupt
11sources, each identified by a 20-bit source number, and a set of
12Interrupt Control Presentation (ICP) entities, also called "servers",
13each associated with a virtual CPU.
14
15The ICP entities are created by enabling the KVM_CAP_IRQ_ARCH
16capability for each vcpu, specifying KVM_CAP_IRQ_XICS in args[0] and
17the interrupt server number (i.e. the vcpu number from the XICS's
18point of view) in args[1] of the kvm_enable_cap struct. Each ICP has
1964 bits of state which can be read and written using the
20KVM_GET_ONE_REG and KVM_SET_ONE_REG ioctls on the vcpu. The 64 bit
21state word has the following bitfields, starting at the
22least-significant end of the word:
23
24* Unused, 16 bits
25
26* Pending interrupt priority, 8 bits
27 Zero is the highest priority, 255 means no interrupt is pending.
28
29* Pending IPI (inter-processor interrupt) priority, 8 bits
30 Zero is the highest priority, 255 means no IPI is pending.
31
32* Pending interrupt source number, 24 bits
33 Zero means no interrupt pending, 2 means an IPI is pending
34
35* Current processor priority, 8 bits
36 Zero is the highest priority, meaning no interrupts can be
37 delivered, and 255 is the lowest priority.
38
39Each source has 64 bits of state that can be read and written using
40the KVM_GET_DEVICE_ATTR and KVM_SET_DEVICE_ATTR ioctls, specifying the
41KVM_DEV_XICS_SOURCES attribute group, with the attribute number being
42the interrupt source number. The 64 bit state word has the following
43bitfields, starting from the least-significant end of the word:
44
45* Destination (server number), 32 bits
46 This specifies where the interrupt should be sent, and is the
47 interrupt server number specified for the destination vcpu.
48
49* Priority, 8 bits
50 This is the priority specified for this interrupt source, where 0 is
51 the highest priority and 255 is the lowest. An interrupt with a
52 priority of 255 will never be delivered.
53
54* Level sensitive flag, 1 bit
55 This bit is 1 for a level-sensitive interrupt source, or 0 for
56 edge-sensitive (or MSI).
57
58* Masked flag, 1 bit
59 This bit is set to 1 if the interrupt is masked (cannot be delivered
60 regardless of its priority), for example by the ibm,int-off RTAS
61 call, or 0 if it is not masked.
62
63* Pending flag, 1 bit
64 This bit is 1 if the source has a pending interrupt, otherwise 0.
65
66Only one XICS instance may be created per VM.