Re: [PATCH v3 02/12] KVM: arm/arm64: Document KVM_VGIC_V3_ADDR_TYPE_REDIST_REGION

[Auger Eric]

Hi Christoffer, Peter,

On 04/24/2018 06:50 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 24 April 2018 at 17:46, Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 10:20:48AM +0200, Eric Auger wrote:
>>> --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-v3.txt
>>> +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-v3.txt
>>> @@ -27,9 +27,32 @@ Groups:
>>>        VCPU and all of the redistributor pages are contiguous.
>>>        Only valid for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V3.
>>>        This address needs to be 64K aligned.
>>> +
>>> +    KVM_VGIC_V3_ADDR_TYPE_REDIST_REGION (rw, 64-bit)
>>> +      The attr field of kvm_device_attr encodes 3 values:
>>> +      bits:     | 63   ....  52  |  51   ....   16 | 15 - 12  |11 - 0
>>> +      values:   |     count      |       base      |  flags   | index
>>> +      - index encodes the unique redistributor region index
>>
>> I'm not entirely sure I understand the purpose of the index field.
>> Isn't a redistributor region identified uniquely by its base address?
> 
> You need a way to tell the difference beween:
>  (1) redistributors for CPUs 0..63 at 0x40000000, redistributors
>      for 64..127 at 0x80000000
>  (2) redistributors for CPUs 0..63 at 0x80000000, redistributors
>      for 64..127 at 0x40000000
> 
> The index field tells you which order the redistributor
> regions go in.

Yes redistributors are filled in the index order. This matches DT
description
(Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/arm,gic-v3.txt):

<0x0 0x2d000000 0 0x800000>,      // GICR 1: CPUs 0-31
<0x0 0x2e000000 0 0x800000>;      // GICR 2: CPUs 32-63

Thanks

Eric


> 
> thanks
> -- PMM
>