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diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-its.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-its.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..6081a5b7fc1e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-its.txt @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +ARM Virtual Interrupt Translation Service (ITS) +=============================================== + +Device types supported: + KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_ITS ARM Interrupt Translation Service Controller + +The ITS allows MSI(-X) interrupts to be injected into guests. This extension is +optional. Creating a virtual ITS controller also requires a host GICv3 (see +arm-vgic-v3.txt), but does not depend on having physical ITS controllers. + +There can be multiple ITS controllers per guest, each of them has to have +a separate, non-overlapping MMIO region. + + +Groups: + KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_ADDR + Attributes: + KVM_VGIC_ITS_ADDR_TYPE (rw, 64-bit) + Base address in the guest physical address space of the GICv3 ITS + control register frame. + This address needs to be 64K aligned and the region covers 128K. + Errors: + -E2BIG: Address outside of addressable IPA range + -EINVAL: Incorrectly aligned address + -EEXIST: Address already configured + -EFAULT: Invalid user pointer for attr->addr. + -ENODEV: Incorrect attribute or the ITS is not supported. + + + KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CTRL + Attributes: + KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_CTRL_INIT + request the initialization of the ITS, no additional parameter in + kvm_device_attr.addr. + Errors: + -ENXIO: ITS not properly configured as required prior to setting + this attribute + -ENOMEM: Memory shortage when allocating ITS internal data |