linux/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/xive.txt
Cédric Le Goater 90c73795af KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add a new KVM device for the XIVE native exploitation mode
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 <clg@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
2019-04-30 19:35:16 +10:00

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POWER9 eXternal Interrupt Virtualization Engine (XIVE Gen1)
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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