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    KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: XIVE: Add passthrough support · 232b984b
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    The KVM XICS-over-XIVE device and the proposed KVM XIVE native device
    implement an IRQ space for the guest using the generic IPI interrupts
    of the XIVE IC controller. These interrupts are allocated at the OPAL
    level and "mapped" into the guest IRQ number space in the range 0-0x1FFF.
    Interrupt management is performed in the XIVE way: using loads and
    stores on the addresses of the XIVE IPI interrupt ESB pages.
    
    Both KVM devices share the same internal structure caching information
    on the interrupts, among which the xive_irq_data struct containing the
    addresses of the IPI ESB pages and an extra one in case of pass-through.
    The later contains the addresses of the ESB pages of the underlying HW
    controller interrupts, PHB4 in all cases for now.
    
    A guest, when running in the XICS legacy interrupt mode, lets the KVM
    XICS-over-XIVE device "handle" interrupt management, that is to
    perform the loads and stores on the addresses of the ESB pages of the
    guest interrupts. However, when running in XIVE native exploitation
    mode, the KVM XIVE native device exposes the interrupt ESB pages to
    the guest and lets the guest perform directly the loads and stores.
    
    The VMA exposing the ESB pages make use of a custom VM fault handler
    which role is to populate the VMA with appropriate pages. When a fault
    occurs, the guest IRQ number is deduced from the offset, and the ESB
    pages of associated XIVE IPI interrupt are inserted in the VMA (using
    the internal structure caching information on the interrupts).
    
    Supporting device passthrough in the guest running in XIVE native
    exploitation mode adds some extra refinements because the ESB pages
    of a different HW controller (PHB4) need to be exposed to the guest
    along with the initial IPI ESB pages of the XIVE IC controller. But
    the overall mechanic is the same.
    
    When the device HW irqs are mapped into or unmapped from the guest
    IRQ number space, the passthru_irq helpers, kvmppc_xive_set_mapped()
    and kvmppc_xive_clr_mapped(), are called to record or clear the
    passthrough interrupt information and to perform the switch.
    
    The approach taken by this patch is to clear the ESB pages of the
    guest IRQ number being mapped and let the VM fault handler repopulate.
    The handler will insert the ESB page corresponding to the HW interrupt
    of the device being passed-through or the initial IPI ESB page if the
    device is being removed.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarCédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
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