From 90c73795afa24890bd2ae4f3b359de04b4147d37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cédric Le Goater Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 12:39:27 +0200 Subject: KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add a new KVM device for the XIVE native exploitation mode MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit This is the basic framework for the new KVM device supporting the XIVE native exploitation mode. The user interface exposes a new KVM device to be created by QEMU, only available when running on a L0 hypervisor. Support for nested guests is not available yet. The XIVE device reuses the device structure of the XICS-on-XIVE device as they have a lot in common. That could possibly change in the future if the need arise. Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater Reviewed-by: David Gibson Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras --- Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/xive.txt | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/xive.txt (limited to 'Documentation/virtual') diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/xive.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/xive.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..fdbd2ff92a88 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/xive.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +POWER9 eXternal Interrupt Virtualization Engine (XIVE Gen1) +========================================================== + +Device types supported: + KVM_DEV_TYPE_XIVE POWER9 XIVE Interrupt Controller generation 1 + +This device acts as a VM interrupt controller. It provides the KVM +interface to configure the interrupt sources of a VM in the underlying +POWER9 XIVE interrupt controller. + +Only one XIVE instance may be instantiated. A guest XIVE device +requires a POWER9 host and the guest OS should have support for the +XIVE native exploitation interrupt mode. If not, it should run using +the legacy interrupt mode, referred as XICS (POWER7/8). + +* Groups: + + 1. KVM_DEV_XIVE_GRP_CTRL + Provides global controls on the device -- cgit v1.2.3