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XIVE interrupt controller uses an Event Queue (EQ) to enqueue event notifications when an exception occurs. The EQ is a single memory page provided by the O/S defining a circular buffer, one per server and priority couple. On baremetal, the EQ page is configured with an OPAL call. On pseries, an extra hop is necessary and the guest OS uses the hcall H_INT_SET_QUEUE_CONFIG to configure the XIVE interrupt controller. The XIVE controller being Hypervisor privileged, it will not be allowed to enqueue event notifications for a Secure VM unless the EQ pages are shared by the Secure VM. Hypervisor/Ultravisor still requires support for the TIMA and ESB page fault handlers. Until this is complete, QEMU can use the emulated XIVE device for Secure VMs, option "kernel_irqchip=off" on the QEMU pseries machine. Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org> Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200426020518.GC5853@oc0525413822.ibm.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.