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+FLIC (floating interrupt controller)
+====================================
+
+FLIC handles floating (non per-cpu) interrupts, i.e. I/O, service and some
+machine check interruptions. All interrupts are stored in a per-vm list of
+pending interrupts. FLIC performs operations on this list.
+
+Only one FLIC instance may be instantiated.
+
+FLIC provides support to
+- add interrupts (KVM_DEV_FLIC_ENQUEUE)
+- inspect currently pending interrupts (KVM_FLIC_GET_ALL_IRQS)
+- purge all pending floating interrupts (KVM_DEV_FLIC_CLEAR_IRQS)
+- enable/disable for the guest transparent async page faults
+
+Groups:
+  KVM_DEV_FLIC_ENQUEUE
+    Passes a buffer and length into the kernel which are then injected into
+    the list of pending interrupts.
+    attr->addr contains the pointer to the buffer and attr->attr contains
+    the length of the buffer.
+    The format of the data structure kvm_s390_irq as it is copied from userspace
+    is defined in usr/include/linux/kvm.h.
+
+  KVM_DEV_FLIC_GET_ALL_IRQS
+    Copies all floating interrupts into a buffer provided by userspace.
+    When the buffer is too small it returns -ENOMEM, which is the indication
+    for userspace to try again with a bigger buffer.
+    All interrupts remain pending, i.e. are not deleted from the list of
+    currently pending interrupts.
+    attr->addr contains the userspace address of the buffer into which all
+    interrupt data will be copied.
+    attr->attr contains the size of the buffer in bytes.
+
+  KVM_DEV_FLIC_CLEAR_IRQS
+    Simply deletes all elements from the list of currently pending floating
+    interrupts.  No interrupts are injected into the guest.
+
+  KVM_DEV_FLIC_APF_ENABLE
+    Enables async page faults for the guest. So in case of a major page fault
+    the host is allowed to handle this async and continues the guest.
+
+  KVM_DEV_FLIC_APF_DISABLE_WAIT
+    Disables async page faults for the guest and waits until already pending
+    async page faults are done. This is necessary to trigger a completion interrupt
+    for every init interrupt before migrating the interrupt list.