[PATCH v5 10/11] ARM/ARM64: KVM: Emulate PSCI v0.2 CPU_SUSPEND
Christoffer Dall
christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Fri Mar 21 19:37:15 EDT 2014
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 06:23:33PM +0530, Anup Patel wrote:
> This patch adds emulation of PSCI v0.2 CPU_SUSPEND function call for
> KVM ARM/ARM64. This is a CPU-level function call which can suspend
> current CPU or current CPU cluster. We don't have VCPU clusters in
> KVM so for KVM we simply suspend the current VCPU.
>
> The CPU_SUSPEND emulation is not tested much because currently there
> is no CPUIDLE driver in Linux kernel that uses PSCI CPU_SUSPEND. The
> PSCI CPU_SUSPEND implementation in ARM64 kernel was tested using a
> Simple CPUIDLE driver which is not published due to unstable DT-bindings
> for PSCI.
> (For more info, http://lwn.net/Articles/574950/)
>
> Even if we had stable DT-bindings for PSCI and CPUIDLE driver that
> uses PSCI CPU_SUSPEND then still we need to define SUSPEND states
> for KVM ARM/ARM64.
>
> Due to this, the CPU_SUSPEND emulation added by this patch only pause
> current VCPU and to wakeup a suspended VCPU we need to explicity call
> PSCI CPU_ON from Guest.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar <pranavkumar at linaro.org>
> ---
> arch/arm/kvm/psci.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/psci.c b/arch/arm/kvm/psci.c
> index 1e85452..e32ad10 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kvm/psci.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/psci.c
> @@ -52,6 +52,22 @@ static unsigned long psci_affinity_mask(unsigned long affinity_level)
> return affinity_mask;
> }
>
> +static unsigned long kvm_psci_vcpu_suspend(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> +{
> + /*
> + * NOTE: Currently, we don't have any wakeup events for KVM
> + * hence VCPU suspend turns-out to be same as VCPU off request.
> + * This means to suspend a VCPU we simply set the pause flag
> + * and update VCPU registers as-per wakeup parameters provided
> + * via r2 & r3 (or x2 & x3).
> + */
> + vcpu->arch.pause = true;
> + *vcpu_pc(vcpu) = *vcpu_reg(vcpu, 2);
> + *vcpu_reg(vcpu, 0) = *vcpu_reg(vcpu, 3);
But the spec states in Section 5.1.2 that if Bit[16] StateType == 0,
then the entry point and context_id parameters are ignored, because all
state is retained for a standby state.
I think Mark Rutland commented that KVM should define at last interrupts
to the CPU as a wakeup event.
> +
> + return KVM_PSCI_RET_SUCCESS;
> +}
> +
> static void kvm_psci_vcpu_off(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> {
> vcpu->arch.pause = true;
> @@ -195,6 +211,10 @@ static int kvm_psci_0_2_call(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> */
> val = 2;
> break;
> + case KVM_PSCI_0_2_FN_CPU_SUSPEND:
> + case KVM_PSCI_0_2_FN64_CPU_SUSPEND:
> + val = kvm_psci_vcpu_suspend(vcpu);
> + break;
> case KVM_PSCI_0_2_FN_CPU_OFF:
> kvm_psci_vcpu_off(vcpu);
> val = KVM_PSCI_RET_SUCCESS;
> @@ -232,10 +252,6 @@ static int kvm_psci_0_2_call(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> val = KVM_PSCI_RET_SUCCESS;
> ret = 0;
> break;
> - case KVM_PSCI_0_2_FN_CPU_SUSPEND:
> - case KVM_PSCI_0_2_FN64_CPU_SUSPEND:
> - val = KVM_PSCI_RET_NI;
> - break;
> default:
> return -EINVAL;
> }
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>
Thanks,
-Christoffer
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