Hi Marc,

On 2020/3/5 4:33, Marc Zyngier wrote:

To allow the direct injection of SGIs into a guest, the GICv4.1
architecture has to sacrifice the Active state so that SGIs look
a lot like LPIs (they are injected by the same mechanism).

In order not to break existing software, the architecture gives
offers guests OSs the choice: SGIs with or without an active
state. It is the hypervisors duty to honor the guest's choice.

For this, the architecture offers a discovery bit indicating whether
the GIC supports GICv4.1 SGIs (GICD_TYPER2.nASSGIcap), and another
bit indicating whether the guest wants Active-less SGIs or not
(controlled by GICD_CTLR.nASSGIreq).

I still can't find the description of these two bits in IHI0069F.
Are they actually architected and will be available in the future
version of the spec?  I want to confirm it again since this has a
great impact on the KVM code, any pointers?


Thanks,
Zenghui


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