FLIC (floating interrupt controller) ==================================== FLIC handles floating (non per-cpu) interrupts, i.e. I/O, service and some machine check interruptions. All interrupts are stored in a per-vm list of pending interrupts. FLIC performs operations on this list. Only one FLIC instance may be instantiated. FLIC provides support to - add interrupts (KVM_DEV_FLIC_ENQUEUE) - inspect currently pending interrupts (KVM_FLIC_GET_ALL_IRQS) - purge all pending floating interrupts (KVM_DEV_FLIC_CLEAR_IRQS) - purge one pending floating I/O interrupt (KVM_DEV_FLIC_CLEAR_IO_IRQ) - enable/disable for the guest transparent async page faults - register and modify adapter interrupt sources (KVM_DEV_FLIC_ADAPTER_*) Groups: KVM_DEV_FLIC_ENQUEUE Passes a buffer and length into the kernel which are then injected into the list of pending interrupts. attr->addr contains the pointer to the buffer and attr->attr contains the length of the buffer. The format of the data structure kvm_s390_irq as it is copied from userspace is defined in usr/include/linux/kvm.h. KVM_DEV_FLIC_GET_ALL_IRQS Copies all floating interrupts into a buffer provided by userspace. When the buffer is too small it returns -ENOMEM, which is the indication for userspace to try again with a bigger buffer. -ENOBUFS is returned when the allocation of a kernelspace buffer has failed. -EFAULT is returned when copying data to userspace failed. All interrupts remain pending, i.e. are not deleted from the list of currently pending interrupts. attr->addr contains the userspace address of the buffer into which all interrupt data will be copied. attr->attr contains the size of the buffer in bytes. KVM_DEV_FLIC_CLEAR_IRQS Simply deletes all elements from the list of currently pending floating interrupts. No interrupts are injected into the guest. KVM_DEV_FLIC_CLEAR_IO_IRQ Deletes one (if any) I/O interrupt for a subchannel identified by the subsystem identification word passed via the buffer specified by attr->addr (address) and attr->attr (length). KVM_DEV_FLIC_APF_ENABLE Enables async page faults for the guest. So in case of a major page fault the host is allowed to handle this async and continues the guest. KVM_DEV_FLIC_APF_DISABLE_WAIT Disables async page faults for the guest and waits until already pending async page faults are done. This is necessary to trigger a completion interrupt for every init interrupt before migrating the interrupt list. KVM_DEV_FLIC_ADAPTER_REGISTER Register an I/O adapter interrupt source. Takes a kvm_s390_io_adapter describing the adapter to register: struct kvm_s390_io_adapter { __u32 id; __u8 isc; __u8 maskable; __u8 swap; __u8 pad; }; id contains the unique id for the adapter, isc the I/O interruption subclass to use, maskable whether this adapter may be masked (interrupts turned off) and swap whether the indicators need to be byte swapped. KVM_DEV_FLIC_ADAPTER_MODIFY Modifies attributes of an existing I/O adapter interrupt source. Takes a kvm_s390_io_adapter_req specifying the adapter and the operation: struct kvm_s390_io_adapter_req { __u32 id; __u8 type; __u8 mask; __u16 pad0; __u64 addr; }; id specifies the adapter and type the operation. The supported operations are: KVM_S390_IO_ADAPTER_MASK mask or unmask the adapter, as specified in mask KVM_S390_IO_ADAPTER_MAP perform a gmap translation for the guest address provided in addr, pin a userspace page for the translated address and add it to the list of mappings Note: A new mapping will be created unconditionally; therefore, the calling code should avoid making duplicate mappings. KVM_S390_IO_ADAPTER_UNMAP release a userspace page for the translated address specified in addr from the list of mappings Note: The KVM_SET_DEVICE_ATTR/KVM_GET_DEVICE_ATTR device ioctls executed on FLIC with an unknown group or attribute gives the error code EINVAL (instead of ENXIO, as specified in the API documentation). It is not possible to conclude that a FLIC operation is unavailable based on the error code resulting from a usage attempt.