From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: christoffer.dall@linaro.org (Christoffer Dall) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 13:27:02 +0100 Subject: [PATCH v7 19/20] arm/arm64: KVM: allow userland to request a virtual GICv3 In-Reply-To: <1421253084-9663-20-git-send-email-andre.przywara@arm.com> References: <1421253084-9663-1-git-send-email-andre.przywara@arm.com> <1421253084-9663-20-git-send-email-andre.przywara@arm.com> Message-ID: <20150115122702.GW26222@cbox> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 04:31:23PM +0000, Andre Przywara wrote: > With all of the GICv3 code in place now we allow userland to ask the > kernel for using a virtual GICv3 in the guest. > Also we provide the necessary support for guests setting the memory > addresses for the virtual distributor and redistributors. > This requires some userland code to make use of that feature and > explicitly ask for a virtual GICv3. > Document that KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP only works for GICv2, but is > considered legacy and using KVM_CREATE_DEVICE is preferred. > > Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall