arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v3-nested.c
Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v3-nested.c
File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v3-nested.c- Extension
.c- Size
- 12006 bytes
- Lines
- 408
- Domain
- Architecture Layer
- Bucket
- arch/arm64
- Inferred role
- Architecture Layer: implementation source
- Status
- source implementation candidate
Why This File Exists
CPU and platform-specific kernel glue: boot entry, traps, syscall entry, interrupts, page tables, context switch, and low-level barriers.
- CPU and platform-specific kernel glue: boot entry, traps, syscall entry, interrupts, page tables, context switch, and low-level barriers.
- Defines or uses C structs; map object ownership, embedded links, reference counts, and lock ownership.
Dependency Surface
linux/cpu.hlinux/kvm.hlinux/kvm_host.hlinux/interrupt.hlinux/io.hlinux/uaccess.hkvm/arm_vgic.hasm/kvm_arm.hasm/kvm_emulate.hasm/kvm_nested.hvgic.h
Detected Declarations
struct mi_statestruct shadow_iffunction lr_map_idx_to_shadow_idxfunction guestfunction lr_triggers_eoifunction vgic_compute_mi_statefunction vgic_v3_get_eisrfunction vgic_v3_get_elrsrfunction vgic_v3_get_misrfunction translate_lr_pintidfunction vgic_v3_create_shadow_lrfunction vgic_v3_flush_nestedfunction vgic_v3_sync_nestedfunction for_each_set_bitfunction vgic_v3_create_shadow_statefunction vgic_v3_load_nestedfunction vgic_v3_put_nestedfunction vgic_v3_handle_nested_maint_irqfunction vgic_v3_nested_update_mi
Annotated Snippet
struct mi_state {
u16 eisr;
u16 elrsr;
bool pend;
};
/*
* The shadow registers loaded to the hardware when running a L2 guest
* with the virtual IMO/FMO bits set.
*/
struct shadow_if {
struct vgic_v3_cpu_if cpuif;
unsigned long lr_map;
};
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct shadow_if, shadow_if);
static int lr_map_idx_to_shadow_idx(struct shadow_if *shadow_if, int idx)
{
return hweight16(shadow_if->lr_map & (BIT(idx) - 1));
}
/*
* Nesting GICv3 support
*
* On a non-nesting VM (only running at EL0/EL1), the host hypervisor
* completely controls the interrupts injected via the list registers.
* Consequently, most of the state that is modified by the guest (by ACK-ing
* and EOI-ing interrupts) is synced by KVM on each entry/exit, so that we
* keep a semi-consistent view of the interrupts.
*
* This still applies for a NV guest, but only while "InHost" (either
* running at EL2, or at EL0 with HCR_EL2.{E2H.TGE}=={1,1}.
*
* When running a L2 guest ("not InHost"), things are radically different,
* as the L1 guest is in charge of provisioning the interrupts via its own
* view of the ICH_LR*_EL2 registers, which conveniently live in the VNCR
* page. This means that the flow described above does work (there is no
* state to rebuild in the L0 hypervisor), and that most things happen on L2
* load/put:
*
* - on L2 load: move the in-memory L1 vGIC configuration into a shadow,
* per-CPU data structure that is used to populate the actual LRs. This is
* an extra copy that we could avoid, but life is short. In the process,
* we remap any interrupt that has the HW bit set to the mapped interrupt
* on the host, should the host consider it a HW one. This allows the HW
* deactivation to take its course, such as for the timer.
*
* - on L2 put: perform the inverse transformation, so that the result of L2
* running becomes visible to L1 in the VNCR-accessible registers.
*
* - there is nothing to do on L2 entry apart from enabling the vgic, as
* everything will have happened on load. However, this is the point where
* we detect that an interrupt targeting L1 and prepare the grand
* switcheroo.
*
* - on L2 exit: resync the LRs and VMCR, emulate the HW bit, and deactivate
* corresponding the L1 interrupt. The L0 active state will be cleared by
* the HW if the L1 interrupt was itself backed by a HW interrupt.
*
* Maintenance Interrupt (MI) management:
*
* Since the L2 guest runs the vgic in its full glory, MIs get delivered and
* used as a handover point between L2 and L1.
*
* - on delivery of a MI to L0 while L2 is running: make the L1 MI pending,
* and let it rip. This will initiate a vcpu_put() on L2, and allow L1 to
* run and process the MI.
*
* - L1 MI is a fully virtual interrupt, not linked to the host's MI. Its
* state must be computed at each entry/exit of the guest, much like we do
* it for the PMU interrupt.
*
* - because most of the ICH_*_EL2 registers live in the VNCR page, the
* quality of emulation is poor: L1 can setup the vgic so that an MI would
* immediately fire, and not observe anything until the next exit.
* Similarly, a pending MI is not immediately disabled by clearing
* ICH_HCR_EL2.En. Trying to read ICH_MISR_EL2 would do the trick, for
* example.
*
* System register emulation:
*
* We get two classes of registers:
*
* - those backed by memory (LRs, APRs, HCR, VMCR): L1 can freely access
* them, and L0 doesn't see a thing.
*
* - those that always trap (ELRSR, EISR, MISR): these are status registers
* that are built on the fly based on the in-memory state.
*
Annotation
- Immediate include surface: `linux/cpu.h`, `linux/kvm.h`, `linux/kvm_host.h`, `linux/interrupt.h`, `linux/io.h`, `linux/uaccess.h`, `kvm/arm_vgic.h`, `asm/kvm_arm.h`.
- Detected declarations: `struct mi_state`, `struct shadow_if`, `function lr_map_idx_to_shadow_idx`, `function guest`, `function lr_triggers_eoi`, `function vgic_compute_mi_state`, `function vgic_v3_get_eisr`, `function vgic_v3_get_elrsr`, `function vgic_v3_get_misr`, `function translate_lr_pintid`.
- Atlas domain: Architecture Layer / arch/arm64.
- Implementation status: source implementation candidate.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.