KVM: arm/arm64: Enable irqchip routing

[cascardo/linux.git] / Documentation / virtual / kvm / api.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
index 415cde1..7e5f9af 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
@@ -1433,13 +1433,16 @@ KVM_ASSIGN_DEV_IRQ. Partial deassignment of host or guest IRQ is allowed.
 4.52 KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING
 
 Capability: KVM_CAP_IRQ_ROUTING
-Architectures: x86 s390
+Architectures: x86 s390 arm arm64
 Type: vm ioctl
 Parameters: struct kvm_irq_routing (in)
 Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
 
 Sets the GSI routing table entries, overwriting any previously set entries.
 
+On arm/arm64, GSI routing has the following limitation:
+- GSI routing does not apply to KVM_IRQ_LINE but only to KVM_IRQFD.
+
 struct kvm_irq_routing {
        __u32 nr;
        __u32 flags;
@@ -2374,9 +2377,10 @@ Note that closing the resamplefd is not sufficient to disable the
 irqfd.  The KVM_IRQFD_FLAG_RESAMPLE is only necessary on assignment
 and need not be specified with KVM_IRQFD_FLAG_DEASSIGN.
 
-On ARM/ARM64, the gsi field in the kvm_irqfd struct specifies the Shared
-Peripheral Interrupt (SPI) index, such that the GIC interrupt ID is
-given by gsi + 32.
+On arm/arm64, gsi routing being supported, the following can happen:
+- in case no routing entry is associated to this gsi, injection fails
+- in case the gsi is associated to an irqchip routing entry,
+  irqchip.pin + 32 corresponds to the injected SPI ID.
 
 4.76 KVM_PPC_ALLOCATE_HTAB