[PATCH v3 0/2] RISC-V: KVM: VCPU reset fixes

[Radim Krčmář]

2025-05-22T14:43:40-07:00, Atish Patra <atish.patra at linux.dev>:
> On 5/15/25 7:37 AM, Radim KrÄmáŠwrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> the design still requires a discussion.
>> 
>> [v3 1/2] removes most of the additional changes that the KVM capability
>> was doing in v2.  [v3 2/2] is new and previews a general solution to the
>> lack of userspace control over KVM SBI.
>> 
>
> I am still missing the motivation behind it. If the motivation is SBI 
> HSM suspend, the PATCH2 doesn't achieve that as it forwards every call 
> to the user space. Why do you want to control hsm start/stop from the 
> user space ?

HSM needs fixing, because KVM doesn't know what the state after
sbi_hart_start should be.
For example, we had a discussion about scounteren and regardless of what
default we choose in KVM, the userspace might want a different value.
I don't think that HSM start/stop is a hot path, so trapping to
userspace seems better than adding more kernel code.

Forwarding all the unimplemented SBI ecalls shouldn't be a performance
issue, because S-mode software would hopefully learn after the first
error and stop trying again.

Allowing userspace to fully implement the ecall instruction one of the
motivations as well -- SBI is not a part of RISC-V ISA, so someone might
be interested in accelerating a different M-mode software with KVM.

I'll send v4 later today -- there is a missing part in [2/2], because
userspace also needs to be able to emulate the base SBI extension.