From: Sascha Bischoff <Sascha.Bischoff@arm.com>
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Joey Gouly <Joey.Gouly@arm.com>,
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Timothy Hayes <Timothy.Hayes@arm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 42/43] Documentation: KVM: Add docs for KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_IST
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:20:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260427160547.3129448-43-sascha.bischoff@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260427160547.3129448-1-sascha.bischoff@arm.com>
Document the IST save/restore userspace interface for the VGICv5
device, KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_IST.
Signed-off-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com>
---
.../virt/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-v5.rst | 40 +++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 40 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-v5.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-v5.rst
index 9fc6afe16154a..38eef7cc63e3e 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-v5.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-v5.rst
@@ -161,3 +161,43 @@ Groups:
aligned for 64-bit registers
-EBUSY one or more VCPUS are running
======= =================================================================
+
+ KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_IST
+ Attributes:
+ This interface is used to either save the state of the IRS's Interrupt
+ State Tables (ISTs) or to restore them, by doing either a get or a set,
+ respectively. As part of saving the IST state, the system is also quiesced
+ in order to ensure that there are no in-flight interrupts at the time of
+ doing so.
+
+ The LPI IST is written to or read from guest-allocated memory, assuming
+ that the guest has provisioned a virtual IST as there is sufficient
+ storage to serialise/unserialise the ISTs into/from guest memory in this
+ case. However, there is no such storage present for the SPI IST in guest
+ memory, and hence userspace must provide the storage for these.
+
+ The addr field of kvm_device_attr is used to provide the base address of
+ an appropriately-sized userspace buffer (32-bits per SPI) which is used to
+ either write the contents of the SPI IST to or to read it from. The number
+ of SPIs can be queried by first inspecting the guest's IRS_IDR5, IRS_IDR6,
+ and IRS_IDR7 to determine the number of SPIs that the guest can use. In
+ the case where the guest doesn't use SPIs at all, this address can be
+ omitted, but it is otherwise mandatory for both set and get operations via
+ this interface.
+
+ Errors:
+
+ =========== ============================================================
+ -EBUSY One or more VCPUs are running, or the save operation failed
+ to quiesce the VM
+ -EINVAL The VM is not valid, or a userspace SPI IST buffer was not
+ supplied when one is required
+ -ENOENT A userspace SPI IST buffer was supplied, but there is no SPI
+ IST to serialise/unserialise
+ -EFAULT Invalid user pointer for attr->addr, or the guest memory
+ backing the LPI IST could not be accessed
+ -ENXIO Required per-VM VGICv5/IST backing state is missing or
+ inconsistent
+ -ENOMEM Restoring IST state failed while tracking pending interrupts
+ -ETIMEDOUT An IRS save/VM operation timed out
+ =========== ============================================================
--
2.34.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-27 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-27 16:06 [PATCH 00/43] KVM: arm64: Add GICv5 IRS support Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-27 16:06 ` [PATCH 01/43] arm64/sysreg: Add GICv5 GIC VDPEND and VDRCFG encodings Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-27 16:06 ` [PATCH 02/43] arm64/sysreg: Update ICC_CR0_EL1 with LINK and LINK_IDLE fields Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-27 16:07 ` [PATCH 03/43] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Add resident/non-resident hyp calls Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-28 14:28 ` Marc Zyngier
2026-05-01 16:40 ` Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-27 16:07 ` [PATCH 04/43] irqchip/gic-v5: Provide IRS config frame attrs to KVM Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-28 14:56 ` Marc Zyngier
2026-05-01 16:46 ` Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-27 16:07 ` [PATCH 05/43] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Extract host IRS caps from IRS config frame Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-28 15:20 ` Marc Zyngier
2026-05-01 16:44 ` Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-27 16:08 ` [PATCH 06/43] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Add VPE doorbell domain Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-28 16:40 ` Marc Zyngier
2026-05-01 16:54 ` Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-27 16:08 ` [PATCH 07/43] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Create & manage VM and VPE tables Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-28 14:54 ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-05-01 16:42 ` Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-28 15:55 ` Joey Gouly
2026-04-29 10:25 ` Marc Zyngier
2026-04-27 16:08 ` [PATCH 08/43] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Introduce guest IST alloc and management Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-29 14:29 ` Marc Zyngier
2026-04-27 16:09 ` [PATCH 09/43] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Implement VMT/vIST IRS MMIO Ops Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-29 12:50 ` Joey Gouly
2026-04-29 16:04 ` Marc Zyngier
2026-04-27 16:09 ` [PATCH 10/43] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Implement VPE " Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-30 8:46 ` Marc Zyngier
2026-04-27 16:09 ` [PATCH 11/43] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Make VPEs valid in vgic_v5_reset() Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-30 9:37 ` Marc Zyngier
2026-04-27 16:10 ` [PATCH 12/43] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Clear db_fired flag before making VPE non-resident Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-27 16:10 ` [PATCH 13/43] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Make VPEs (non-)resident in vgic_load/put Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-30 10:26 ` Marc Zyngier
2026-04-27 16:10 ` [PATCH 14/43] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Request VPE doorbells when going non-resident Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-30 10:37 ` Marc Zyngier
2026-04-27 16:11 ` [PATCH 15/43] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Handle doorbells in kvm_vgic_vcpu_pending_irq() Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-27 16:11 ` [PATCH 16/43] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Initialise and teardown VMTEs & doorbells Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-30 12:23 ` Marc Zyngier
2026-04-27 16:11 ` [PATCH 17/43] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Enable VPE DBs on VPE reset and disable on teardown Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-27 16:12 ` [PATCH 18/43] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Define remaining IRS MMIO registers Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-27 16:12 ` [PATCH 19/43] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Introduce struct vgic_v5_irs and IRS base address Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-27 16:12 ` [PATCH 20/43] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Add IRS IODEV to iodev_types and generic MMIO handlers Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-27 16:13 ` [PATCH 21/43] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Add KVM_VGIC_V5_ADDR_TYPE_IRS to UAPI Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-27 16:13 ` [PATCH 22/43] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Add GICv5 IRS IODEV and MMIO emulation Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-27 16:13 ` [PATCH 23/43] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Set IRICHPPIDIS based on IRS enable state Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-27 16:14 ` [PATCH 24/43] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Call IRS init/teardown from vgic_v5 init/teardown Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-27 16:14 ` [PATCH 25/43] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Register the IRS IODEV Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-27 16:14 ` [PATCH 26/43] Documentation: KVM: Extend VGICv5 docs for KVM_VGIC_V5_ADDR_TYPE_IRS Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-27 16:15 ` [PATCH 27/43] KVM: arm64: selftests: Update vGICv5 selftest to set IRS address Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-27 16:15 ` [PATCH 28/43] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Introduce SPI AP list Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-27 16:15 ` [PATCH 29/43] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Add GIC VDPEND and GIC VDRCFG hyp calls Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-27 16:16 ` [PATCH 30/43] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Track SPI state for in-flight SPIs Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-27 16:16 ` [PATCH 31/43] KVM: arm64: gic: Introduce set_pending_state() to irq_op Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-27 16:16 ` [PATCH 32/43] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Support SPI injection Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-27 16:17 ` [PATCH 33/43] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Add GICv5 SPI injection to irqfd Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-27 16:17 ` [PATCH 34/43] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Mask per-vcpu PPI state in vgic_v5_finalize_ppi_state() Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-27 16:17 ` [PATCH 35/43] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Add GICv5 EL1 sysreg userspace set/get interface Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-27 16:18 ` [PATCH 36/43] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Implement save/restore mechanisms for ISTs Sascha Bischoff
2026-05-01 18:54 ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-04-27 16:18 ` [PATCH 37/43] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Handle userspace accesses to IRS MMIO region Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-27 16:19 ` [PATCH 38/43] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Add VGIC_GRP_IRS_REGS/VGIC_GRP_IST to UAPI Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-27 16:19 ` [PATCH 39/43] KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Plumb in has/set/get_attr for sysregs & IRS MMIO regs Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-27 16:19 ` [PATCH 40/43] Documentation: KVM: Document KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CPU_SYSREGS for VGICv5 Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-27 16:20 ` [PATCH 41/43] Documentation: KVM: Add KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_IRS_REGS to VGICv5 docs Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-27 16:20 ` Sascha Bischoff [this message]
2026-04-27 16:20 ` [PATCH 43/43] Documentation: KVM: Add the VGICv5 IRS save/restore sequences Sascha Bischoff
2026-04-30 8:57 ` Peter Maydell
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