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+XICS interrupt controller
+
+Device type supported: KVM_DEV_TYPE_XICS
+
+Groups:
+  KVM_DEV_XICS_SOURCES
+  Attributes: One per interrupt source, indexed by the source number.
+
+This device emulates the XICS (eXternal Interrupt Controller
+Specification) defined in PAPR.  The XICS has a set of interrupt
+sources, each identified by a 20-bit source number, and a set of
+Interrupt Control Presentation (ICP) entities, also called "servers",
+each associated with a virtual CPU.
+
+The ICP entities are created by enabling the KVM_CAP_IRQ_ARCH
+capability for each vcpu, specifying KVM_CAP_IRQ_XICS in args[0] and
+the interrupt server number (i.e. the vcpu number from the XICS's
+point of view) in args[1] of the kvm_enable_cap struct.  Each ICP has
+64 bits of state which can be read and written using the
+KVM_GET_ONE_REG and KVM_SET_ONE_REG ioctls on the vcpu.  The 64 bit
+state word has the following bitfields, starting at the
+least-significant end of the word:
+
+* Unused, 16 bits
+
+* Pending interrupt priority, 8 bits
+  Zero is the highest priority, 255 means no interrupt is pending.
+
+* Pending IPI (inter-processor interrupt) priority, 8 bits
+  Zero is the highest priority, 255 means no IPI is pending.
+
+* Pending interrupt source number, 24 bits
+  Zero means no interrupt pending, 2 means an IPI is pending
+
+* Current processor priority, 8 bits
+  Zero is the highest priority, meaning no interrupts can be
+  delivered, and 255 is the lowest priority.
+
+Each source has 64 bits of state that can be read and written using
+the KVM_GET_DEVICE_ATTR and KVM_SET_DEVICE_ATTR ioctls, specifying the
+KVM_DEV_XICS_SOURCES attribute group, with the attribute number being
+the interrupt source number.  The 64 bit state word has the following
+bitfields, starting from the least-significant end of the word:
+
+* Destination (server number), 32 bits
+  This specifies where the interrupt should be sent, and is the
+  interrupt server number specified for the destination vcpu.
+
+* Priority, 8 bits
+  This is the priority specified for this interrupt source, where 0 is
+  the highest priority and 255 is the lowest.  An interrupt with a
+  priority of 255 will never be delivered.
+
+* Level sensitive flag, 1 bit
+  This bit is 1 for a level-sensitive interrupt source, or 0 for
+  edge-sensitive (or MSI).
+
+* Masked flag, 1 bit
+  This bit is set to 1 if the interrupt is masked (cannot be delivered
+  regardless of its priority), for example by the ibm,int-off RTAS
+  call, or 0 if it is not masked.
+
+* Pending flag, 1 bit
+  This bit is 1 if the source has a pending interrupt, otherwise 0.
+
+Only one XICS instance may be created per VM.