docs: provide documentation on the POWER9 XIVE interrupt controller

This documents the overall XIVE architecture and the XIVE support for
sPAPR guest machines (pseries).

It also provides documentation on the 'info pic' command.

Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Message-Id: <20190521082411.24719-1-clg@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: Satheesh Rajendran <sathnaga@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>

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    interop/index
    devel/index
+   specs/index
 
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+. This is the top level page for the 'specs' manual
+
+
+QEMU full-system emulation guest hardware specifications
+========================================================
+
+
+Contents:
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 2
+
+   xive
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+XIVE for sPAPR (pseries machines)
+=================================
+
+The POWER9 processor comes with a new interrupt controller
+architecture, called XIVE as "eXternal Interrupt Virtualization
+Engine". It supports a larger number of interrupt sources and offers
+virtualization features which enables the HW to deliver interrupts
+directly to virtual processors without hypervisor assistance.
+
+A QEMU ``pseries`` machine (which is PAPR compliant) using POWER9
+processors can run under two interrupt modes:
+
+- *Legacy Compatibility Mode*
+
+  the hypervisor provides identical interfaces and similar
+  functionality to PAPR+ Version 2.7.  This is the default mode
+
+  It is also referred as *XICS* in QEMU.
+
+- *XIVE native exploitation mode*
+
+  the hypervisor provides new interfaces to manage the XIVE control
+  structures, and provides direct control for interrupt management
+  through MMIO pages.
+
+Which interrupt modes can be used by the machine is negotiated with
+the guest O/S during the Client Architecture Support negotiation
+sequence. The two modes are mutually exclusive.
+
+Both interrupt mode share the same IRQ number space. See below for the
+layout.
+
+CAS Negotiation
+---------------
+
+QEMU advertises the supported interrupt modes in the device tree
+property "ibm,arch-vec-5-platform-support" in byte 23 and the OS
+Selection for XIVE is indicated in the "ibm,architecture-vec-5"
+property byte 23.
+
+The interrupt modes supported by the machine depend on the CPU type
+(POWER9 is required for XIVE) but also on the machine property
+``ic-mode`` which can be set on the command line. It can take the
+following values: ``xics``, ``xive``, ``dual`` and currently ``xics``
+is the default but it may change in the future.
+
+The choosen interrupt mode is activated after a reconfiguration done
+in a machine reset.
+
+XIVE Device tree properties
+---------------------------
+
+The properties for the PAPR interrupt controller node when the *XIVE
+native exploitation mode* is selected shoud contain:
+
+- ``device_type``
+
+  value should be "power-ivpe".
+
+- ``compatible``
+
+  value should be "ibm,power-ivpe".
+
+- ``reg``
+
+  contains the base address and size of the thread interrupt
+  managnement areas (TIMA), for the User level and for the Guest OS
+  level. Only the Guest OS level is taken into account today.
+
+- ``ibm,xive-eq-sizes``
+
+  the size of the event queues. One cell per size supported, contains
+  log2 of size, in ascending order.
+
+- ``ibm,xive-lisn-ranges``
+
+  the IRQ interrupt number ranges assigned to the guest for the IPIs.
+
+The root node also exports :
+
+- ``ibm,plat-res-int-priorities``
+
+  contains a list of priorities that the hypervisor has reserved for
+  its own use.
+
+IRQ number space
+----------------
+
+IRQ Number space of the ``pseries`` machine is 8K wide and is the same
+for both interrupt mode. The different ranges are defined as follow :
+
+- ``0x0000 .. 0x0FFF`` 4K CPU IPIs (only used under XIVE)
+- ``0x1000 .. 0x1000`` 1 EPOW
+- ``0x1001 .. 0x1001`` 1 HOTPLUG
+- ``0x1100 .. 0x11FF`` 256 VIO devices
+- ``0x1200 .. 0x127F`` 32 PHBs devices
+- ``0x1280 .. 0x12FF`` unused
+- ``0x1300 .. 0x1FFF`` PHB MSIs
+
+Monitoring XIVE
+---------------
+
+The state of the XIVE interrupt controller can be queried through the
+monitor commands ``info pic``. The output comes in two parts.
+
+First, the state of the thread interrupt context registers is dumped
+for each CPU :
+
+::
+
+   (qemu) info pic
+   CPU[0000]:   QW   NSR CPPR IPB LSMFB ACK# INC AGE PIPR  W2
+   CPU[0000]: USER    00   00  00    00   00  00  00   00  00000000
+   CPU[0000]:   OS    00   ff  00    00   ff  00  ff   ff  80000400
+   CPU[0000]: POOL    00   00  00    00   00  00  00   00  00000000
+   CPU[0000]: PHYS    00   00  00    00   00  00  00   ff  00000000
+   ...
+
+In the case of a ``pseries`` machine, QEMU acts as the hypervisor and only
+the O/S and USER register rings make sense. ``W2`` contains the vCPU CAM
+line which is set to the VP identifier.
+
+Then comes the routing information which aggregates the EAS and the
+END configuration:
+
+::
+
+   ...
+   LISN         PQ    EISN     CPU/PRIO EQ
+   00000000 MSI --    00000010   0/6    380/16384 @1fe3e0000 ^1 [ 80000010 ... ]
+   00000001 MSI --    00000010   1/6    305/16384 @1fc230000 ^1 [ 80000010 ... ]
+   00000002 MSI --    00000010   2/6    220/16384 @1fc2f0000 ^1 [ 80000010 ... ]
+   00000003 MSI --    00000010   3/6    201/16384 @1fc390000 ^1 [ 80000010 ... ]
+   00000004 MSI -Q  M 00000000
+   00000005 MSI -Q  M 00000000
+   00000006 MSI -Q  M 00000000
+   00000007 MSI -Q  M 00000000
+   00001000 MSI --    00000012   0/6    380/16384 @1fe3e0000 ^1 [ 80000010 ... ]
+   00001001 MSI --    00000013   0/6    380/16384 @1fe3e0000 ^1 [ 80000010 ... ]
+   00001100 MSI --    00000100   1/6    305/16384 @1fc230000 ^1 [ 80000010 ... ]
+   00001101 MSI -Q  M 00000000
+   00001200 LSI -Q  M 00000000
+   00001201 LSI -Q  M 00000000
+   00001202 LSI -Q  M 00000000
+   00001203 LSI -Q  M 00000000
+   00001300 MSI --    00000102   1/6    305/16384 @1fc230000 ^1 [ 80000010 ... ]
+   00001301 MSI --    00000103   2/6    220/16384 @1fc2f0000 ^1 [ 80000010 ... ]
+   00001302 MSI --    00000104   3/6    201/16384 @1fc390000 ^1 [ 80000010 ... ]
+
+The source information and configuration:
+
+- The ``LISN`` column outputs the interrupt number of the source in
+  range ``[ 0x0 ... 0x1FFF ]`` and its type : ``MSI`` or ``LSI``
+- The ``PQ`` column reflects the state of the PQ bits of the source :
+
+  - ``--`` source is ready to take events
+  - ``P-`` an event was sent and an EOI is PENDING
+  - ``PQ`` an event was QUEUED
+  - ``-Q`` source is OFF
+
+  a ``M`` indicates that source is *MASKED* at the EAS level,
+
+The targeting configuration :
+
+- The ``EISN`` column is the event data that will be queued in the event
+  queue of the O/S.
+- The ``CPU/PRIO`` column is the tuple defining the CPU number and
+  priority queue serving the source.
+- The ``EQ`` column outputs :
+
+  - the current index of the event queue/ the max number of entries
+  - the O/S event queue address
+  - the toggle bit
+  - the last entries that were pushed in the event queue.
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+================================
+POWER9 XIVE interrupt controller
+================================
+
+The POWER9 processor comes with a new interrupt controller
+architecture, called XIVE as "eXternal Interrupt Virtualization
+Engine".
+
+Compared to the previous architecture, the main characteristics of
+XIVE are to support a larger number of interrupt sources and to
+deliver interrupts directly to virtual processors without hypervisor
+assistance. This removes the context switches required for the
+delivery process.
+
+
+XIVE architecture
+=================
+
+The XIVE IC is composed of three sub-engines, each taking care of a
+processing layer of external interrupts:
+
+- Interrupt Virtualization Source Engine (IVSE), or Source Controller
+  (SC). These are found in PCI PHBs, in the PSI host bridge
+  controller, but also inside the main controller for the core IPIs
+  and other sub-chips (NX, CAP, NPU) of the chip/processor. They are
+  configured to feed the IVRE with events.
+- Interrupt Virtualization Routing Engine (IVRE) or Virtualization
+  Controller (VC). It handles event coalescing and perform interrupt
+  routing by matching an event source number with an Event
+  Notification Descriptor (END).
+- Interrupt Virtualization Presentation Engine (IVPE) or Presentation
+  Controller (PC). It maintains the interrupt context state of each
+  thread and handles the delivery of the external interrupt to the
+  thread.
+
+::
+
+                XIVE Interrupt Controller
+                +------------------------------------+      IPIs
+                | +---------+ +---------+ +--------+ |    +-------+
+                | |IVRE     | |Common Q | |IVPE    |----> | CORES |
+                | |     esb | |         | |        |----> |       |
+                | |     eas | |  Bridge | |   tctx |----> |       |
+                | |SC   end | |         | |    nvt | |    |       |
+    +------+    | +---------+ +----+----+ +--------+ |    +-+-+-+-+
+    | RAM  |    +------------------|-----------------+      | | |
+    |      |                       |                        | | |
+    |      |                       |                        | | |
+    |      |  +--------------------v------------------------v-v-v--+    other
+    |      <--+                     Power Bus                      +--> chips
+    |  esb |  +---------+-----------------------+------------------+
+    |  eas |            |                       |
+    |  end |         +--|------+                |
+    |  nvt |       +----+----+ |           +----+----+
+    +------+       |IVSE     | |           |IVSE     |
+                   |         | |           |         |
+                   | PQ-bits | |           | PQ-bits |
+                   | local   |-+           |  in VC  |
+                   +---------+             +---------+
+                      PCIe                 NX,NPU,CAPI
+
+
+    PQ-bits: 2 bits source state machine (P:pending Q:queued)
+    esb: Event State Buffer (Array of PQ bits in an IVSE)
+    eas: Event Assignment Structure
+    end: Event Notification Descriptor
+    nvt: Notification Virtual Target
+    tctx: Thread interrupt Context registers
+
+
+
+XIVE internal tables
+--------------------
+
+Each of the sub-engines uses a set of tables to redirect interrupts
+from event sources to CPU threads.
+
+::
+
+                                            +-------+
+    User or O/S                             |  EQ   |
+        or                          +------>|entries|
+    Hypervisor                      |       |  ..   |
+      Memory                        |       +-------+
+                                    |           ^
+                                    |           |
+               +-------------------------------------------------+
+                                    |           |
+    Hypervisor      +------+    +---+--+    +---+--+   +------+
+      Memory        | ESB  |    | EAT  |    | ENDT |   | NVTT |
+     (skiboot)      +----+-+    +----+-+    +----+-+   +------+
+                      ^  |        ^  |        ^  |       ^
+                      |  |        |  |        |  |       |
+               +-------------------------------------------------+
+                      |  |        |  |        |  |       |
+                      |  |        |  |        |  |       |
+                 +----|--|--------|--|--------|--|-+   +-|-----+    +------+
+                 |    |  |        |  |        |  | |   | | tctx|    |Thread|
+     IPI or   ---+    +  v        +  v        +  v |---| +  .. |----->     |
+    HW events    |                                 |   |       |    |      |
+                 |             IVRE                |   | IVPE  |    +------+
+                 +---------------------------------+   +-------+
+
+
+The IVSE have a 2-bits state machine, P for pending and Q for queued,
+for each source that allows events to be triggered. They are stored in
+an Event State Buffer (ESB) array and can be controlled by MMIOs.
+
+If the event is let through, the IVRE looks up in the Event Assignment
+Structure (EAS) table for an Event Notification Descriptor (END)
+configured for the source. Each Event Notification Descriptor defines
+a notification path to a CPU and an in-memory Event Queue, in which
+will be enqueued an EQ data for the O/S to pull.
+
+The IVPE determines if a Notification Virtual Target (NVT) can handle
+the event by scanning the thread contexts of the VCPUs dispatched on
+the processor HW threads. It maintains the interrupt context state of
+each thread in a NVT table.
+
+XIVE thread interrupt context
+-----------------------------
+
+The XIVE presenter can generate four different exceptions to its
+HW threads:
+
+- hypervisor exception
+- O/S exception
+- Event-Based Branch (user level)
+- msgsnd (doorbell)
+
+Each exception has a state independent from the others called a Thread
+Interrupt Management context. This context is a set of registers which
+lets the thread handle priority management and interrupt
+acknowledgment among other things. The most important ones being :
+
+- Interrupt Priority Register  (PIPR)
+- Interrupt Pending Buffer     (IPB)
+- Current Processor Priority   (CPPR)
+- Notification Source Register (NSR)
+
+TIMA
+~~~~
+
+The Thread Interrupt Management registers are accessible through a
+specific MMIO region, called the Thread Interrupt Management Area
+(TIMA), four aligned pages, each exposing a different view of the
+registers. First page (page address ending in ``0b00``) gives access
+to the entire context and is reserved for the ring 0 view for the
+physical thread context. The second (page address ending in ``0b01``)
+is for the hypervisor, ring 1 view. The third (page address ending in
+``0b10``) is for the operating system, ring 2 view. The fourth (page
+address ending in ``0b11``) is for user level, ring 3 view.
+
+Interrupt flow from an O/S perspective
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+After an event data has been enqueued in the O/S Event Queue, the IVPE
+raises the bit corresponding to the priority of the pending interrupt
+in the register IBP (Interrupt Pending Buffer) to indicate that an
+event is pending in one of the 8 priority queues. The Pending
+Interrupt Priority Register (PIPR) is also updated using the IPB. This
+register represent the priority of the most favored pending
+notification.
+
+The PIPR is then compared to the the Current Processor Priority
+Register (CPPR). If it is more favored (numerically less than), the
+CPU interrupt line is raised and the EO bit of the Notification Source
+Register (NSR) is updated to notify the presence of an exception for
+the O/S. The O/S acknowledges the interrupt with a special load in the
+Thread Interrupt Management Area.
+
+The O/S handles the interrupt and when done, performs an EOI using a
+MMIO operation on the ESB management page of the associate source.
+
+Overview of the QEMU models for XIVE
+====================================
+
+The XiveSource models the IVSE in general, internal and external. It
+handles the source ESBs and the MMIO interface to control them.
+
+The XiveNotifier is a small helper interface interconnecting the
+XiveSource to the XiveRouter.
+
+The XiveRouter is an abstract model acting as a combined IVRE and
+IVPE. It routes event notifications using the EAS and END tables to
+the IVPE sub-engine which does a CAM scan to find a CPU to deliver the
+exception. Storage should be provided by the inheriting classes.
+
+XiveEnDSource is a special source object. It exposes the END ESB MMIOs
+of the Event Queues which are used for coalescing event notifications
+and for escalation. Not used on the field, only to sync the EQ cache
+in OPAL.
+
+Finally, the XiveTCTX contains the interrupt state context of a thread,
+four sets of registers, one for each exception that can be delivered
+to a CPU. These contexts are scanned by the IVPE to find a matching VP
+when a notification is triggered. It also models the Thread Interrupt
+Management Area (TIMA), which exposes the thread context registers to
+the CPU for interrupt management.