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+ARM Virtual Generic Interrupt Controller (VGIC)
+===============================================
+
+Device types supported:
+  KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V2     ARM Generic Interrupt Controller v2.0
+
+Only one VGIC instance may be instantiated through either this API or the
+legacy KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP api.  The created VGIC will act as the VM interrupt
+controller, requiring emulated user-space devices to inject interrupts to the
+VGIC instead of directly to CPUs.
+
+Groups:
+  KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_ADDR
+  Attributes:
+    KVM_VGIC_V2_ADDR_TYPE_DIST (rw, 64-bit)
+      Base address in the guest physical address space of the GIC distributor
+      register mappings.
+
+    KVM_VGIC_V2_ADDR_TYPE_CPU (rw, 64-bit)
+      Base address in the guest physical address space of the GIC virtual cpu
+      interface register mappings.
+
+  KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_DIST_REGS
+  Attributes:
+    The attr field of kvm_device_attr encodes two values:
+    bits:     | 63   ....  40 | 39 ..  32  |  31   ....    0 |
+    values:   |    reserved   |   cpu id   |      offset     |
+
+    All distributor regs are (rw, 32-bit)
+
+    The offset is relative to the "Distributor base address" as defined in the
+    GICv2 specs.  Getting or setting such a register has the same effect as
+    reading or writing the register on the actual hardware from the cpu
+    specified with cpu id field.  Note that most distributor fields are not
+    banked, but return the same value regardless of the cpu id used to access
+    the register.
+  Limitations:
+    - Priorities are not implemented, and registers are RAZ/WI
+  Errors:
+    -ENODEV: Getting or setting this register is not yet supported
+    -EBUSY: One or more VCPUs are running
+
+  KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CPU_REGS
+  Attributes:
+    The attr field of kvm_device_attr encodes two values:
+    bits:     | 63   ....  40 | 39 ..  32  |  31   ....    0 |
+    values:   |    reserved   |   cpu id   |      offset     |
+
+    All CPU interface regs are (rw, 32-bit)
+
+    The offset specifies the offset from the "CPU interface base address" as
+    defined in the GICv2 specs.  Getting or setting such a register has the
+    same effect as reading or writing the register on the actual hardware.
+
+    The Active Priorities Registers APRn are implementation defined, so we set a
+    fixed format for our implementation that fits with the model of a "GICv2
+    implementation without the security extensions" which we present to the
+    guest.  This interface always exposes four register APR[0-3] describing the
+    maximum possible 128 preemption levels.  The semantics of the register
+    indicate if any interrupts in a given preemption level are in the active
+    state by setting the corresponding bit.
+
+    Thus, preemption level X has one or more active interrupts if and only if:
+
+      APRn[X mod 32] == 0b1,  where n = X / 32
+
+    Bits for undefined preemption levels are RAZ/WI.
+
+  Limitations:
+    - Priorities are not implemented, and registers are RAZ/WI
+  Errors:
+    -ENODEV: Getting or setting this register is not yet supported
+    -EBUSY: One or more VCPUs are running