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+This directory contains specific device bindings for KVM_CAP_DEVICE_CTRL.
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+MPIC interrupt controller
+=========================
+
+Device types supported:
+ KVM_DEV_TYPE_FSL_MPIC_20 Freescale MPIC v2.0
+ KVM_DEV_TYPE_FSL_MPIC_42 Freescale MPIC v4.2
+
+Only one MPIC instance, of any type, may be instantiated. The created
+MPIC will act as the system interrupt controller, connecting to each
+vcpu's interrupt inputs.
+
+Groups:
+ KVM_DEV_MPIC_GRP_MISC
+ Attributes:
+ KVM_DEV_MPIC_BASE_ADDR (rw, 64-bit)
+ Base address of the 256 KiB MPIC register space. Must be
+ naturally aligned. A value of zero disables the mapping.
+ Reset value is zero.
+
+ KVM_DEV_MPIC_GRP_REGISTER (rw, 32-bit)
+ Access an MPIC register, as if the access were made from the guest.
+ "attr" is the byte offset into the MPIC register space. Accesses
+ must be 4-byte aligned.
+
+ MSIs may be signaled by using this attribute group to write
+ to the relevant MSIIR.
+
+ KVM_DEV_MPIC_GRP_IRQ_ACTIVE (rw, 32-bit)
+ IRQ input line for each standard openpic source. 0 is inactive and 1
+ is active, regardless of interrupt sense.
+
+ For edge-triggered interrupts: Writing 1 is considered an activating
+ edge, and writing 0 is ignored. Reading returns 1 if a previously
+ signaled edge has not been acknowledged, and 0 otherwise.
+
+ "attr" is the IRQ number. IRQ numbers for standard sources are the
+ byte offset of the relevant IVPR from EIVPR0, divided by 32.
+
+IRQ Routing:
+
+ The MPIC emulation supports IRQ routing. Only a single MPIC device can
+ be instantiated. Once that device has been created, it's available as
+ irqchip id 0.
+
+ This irqchip 0 has 256 interrupt pins, which expose the interrupts in
+ the main array of interrupt sources (a.k.a. "SRC" interrupts).
+
+ The numbering is the same as the MPIC device tree binding -- based on
+ the register offset from the beginning of the sources array, without
+ regard to any subdivisions in chip documentation such as "internal"
+ or "external" interrupts.
+
+ Access to non-SRC interrupts is not implemented through IRQ routing mechanisms.
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+XICS interrupt controller
+
+Device type supported: KVM_DEV_TYPE_XICS
+
+Groups:
+ KVM_DEV_XICS_SOURCES
+ Attributes: One per interrupt source, indexed by the source number.
+
+This device emulates the XICS (eXternal Interrupt Controller
+Specification) defined in PAPR. The XICS has a set of interrupt
+sources, each identified by a 20-bit source number, and a set of
+Interrupt Control Presentation (ICP) entities, also called "servers",
+each associated with a virtual CPU.
+
+The ICP entities are created by enabling the KVM_CAP_IRQ_ARCH
+capability for each vcpu, specifying KVM_CAP_IRQ_XICS in args[0] and
+the interrupt server number (i.e. the vcpu number from the XICS's
+point of view) in args[1] of the kvm_enable_cap struct. Each ICP has
+64 bits of state which can be read and written using the
+KVM_GET_ONE_REG and KVM_SET_ONE_REG ioctls on the vcpu. The 64 bit
+state word has the following bitfields, starting at the
+least-significant end of the word:
+
+* Unused, 16 bits
+
+* Pending interrupt priority, 8 bits
+ Zero is the highest priority, 255 means no interrupt is pending.
+
+* Pending IPI (inter-processor interrupt) priority, 8 bits
+ Zero is the highest priority, 255 means no IPI is pending.
+
+* Pending interrupt source number, 24 bits
+ Zero means no interrupt pending, 2 means an IPI is pending
+
+* Current processor priority, 8 bits
+ Zero is the highest priority, meaning no interrupts can be
+ delivered, and 255 is the lowest priority.
+
+Each source has 64 bits of state that can be read and written using
+the KVM_GET_DEVICE_ATTR and KVM_SET_DEVICE_ATTR ioctls, specifying the
+KVM_DEV_XICS_SOURCES attribute group, with the attribute number being
+the interrupt source number. The 64 bit state word has the following
+bitfields, starting from the least-significant end of the word:
+
+* Destination (server number), 32 bits
+ This specifies where the interrupt should be sent, and is the
+ interrupt server number specified for the destination vcpu.
+
+* Priority, 8 bits
+ This is the priority specified for this interrupt source, where 0 is
+ the highest priority and 255 is the lowest. An interrupt with a
+ priority of 255 will never be delivered.
+
+* Level sensitive flag, 1 bit
+ This bit is 1 for a level-sensitive interrupt source, or 0 for
+ edge-sensitive (or MSI).
+
+* Masked flag, 1 bit
+ This bit is set to 1 if the interrupt is masked (cannot be delivered
+ regardless of its priority), for example by the ibm,int-off RTAS
+ call, or 0 if it is not masked.
+
+* Pending flag, 1 bit
+ This bit is 1 if the source has a pending interrupt, otherwise 0.
+
+Only one XICS instance may be created per VM.