[PATCH v3 00/19] KVM GICv3 emulation

Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Mon Nov 3 04:59:42 PST 2014


On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 05:26:35PM +0000, Andre Przywara wrote:
> This is an updated version of the GICv3 guest emulation series.
> 
> This one is now based on v3.18-rc2, which makes this patch series
> independent now, as all formerly required patches are now upstream.
> 
> I addressed most of the comments from Christoffer's review (thanks
> for that!), this includes a split-up of two patches, so the new
> series now carries more patches to ease review.
> 
> There seem to be still endianess issues with this, so I don't claim
> this version to be compatible with anything other than LE on LE.
> I am about to debug this and will include fixes in the next version.

As I stated on the patch in v2, can we at least make a best effort as to
not write code that breaks on a BE platform?  Thanks.

> 
> A git repo hosting all these patches lives in the kvm-gicv3/v3 branch
> of: http://www.linux-arm.org/git?p=linux-ap.git

Nit: In the future you may want to consider including actual git URLs in
your cover-letters, especially because the arm cgit thingy requires me
to click back, copy-paste twice etc., to construct the git url.

> -----
> 
> GICv3 is the ARM generic interrupt controller designed to overcome
> some limits of the prevalent GICv2. Most notably it lifts the 8-CPU
> limit. Though with recent patches from Marc there is support for
> hosts to use a GICv3, the CPU limitation still applies to KVM guests,
> since the current code emulates a GICv2 only.
> Also, GICv2 backward compatibility being optional in GICv3, a number
> of systems won't be able to run GICv2 guests.
> 
> This patch series provides code to emulate a GICv3 distributor and
> redistributor for any KVM guest. It requires a GICv3 in the host to
> work. With those patches one can run guests efficiently on any GICv3
> host. It has the following features:
> - Affinity routing (support for up to 255 VCPUs, more possible)
> - System registers (as opposed to MMIO access)
> - No ITS
> - No priority support (as the GICv2 emulation)
> - No save / restore support so far (will be added soon)
> 
> The first patches actually refactor the current VGIC code to make
> room for a different VGIC model to be dropped in with Patch 16.
> The remaining patches connect the new model to the kernel backend and
> the userland facing code.
> 
> The series goes on top of v3.18-rc2.
> The necessary patches for kvmtool to enable the guest's GICv3 have
> been posted here before [1], an updated version will follow soon.
> 
> There was some testing on the fast model with some I/O and interrupt
> affinity shuffling in a Linux guest with a varying number of VCPUs as
> well as some testing on a Juno board (GICv2 only, to spot
> regressions).
> 
> Please review and test.
> I would be grateful for people to test for GICv2 regressions also
> (so on a GICv2 host with current kvmtool/qemu), as there is quite
> some refactoring on that front.
> 
> Much of the code was inspired by MarcZ, also kudos to him for doing
> the rather painful rebase on top of v3.17-rc1.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andre.
> 
> [1] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/pipermail/kvmarm/2014-June/010086.html
> 
> Changes v2 ... v3:
> * rebase to v3.18-rc2
> * adapt to new kvm_register_device() function
> * split up vm_ops patch and the GICv2 split-off patch to ease review
> * various smaller changes due to Christoffer's review
> * fix compilation for arm
> * remove support for trapping SGI sysreg accesses on arm hosts
> 
> Changes v1 ... v2:
> * rebase to v3.17-rc1, caused quite some changes to the init code
> * new 9/15 patch to make 10/15 smaller
> * fix wrongly ordered cp15 register trap entry (MarcZ)
> * fix SGI broadcast (thanks to wanghaibin for spotting)
> * fix broken bailout path in kvm_vgic_create (wanghaibin)
> * check return value of init_emulation_ops() (wanghaibin)
> * fix return value check in vgic_[sg]et_attr()
> * add header inclusion guards
> * remove double definition of VCPU_NOT_ALLOCATED
> * some code move-around
> * whitespace fixes
> 
> Andre Przywara (19):
>   arm/arm64: KVM: rework MPIDR assignment and add accessors
>   arm/arm64: KVM: pass down user space provided GIC type into vGIC code
>   arm/arm64: KVM: refactor vgic_handle_mmio() function
>   arm/arm64: KVM: wrap 64 bit MMIO accesses with two 32 bit ones
>   arm/arm64: KVM: introduce per-VM ops
>   arm/arm64: KVM: move [sg]et_lr into per-VM ops
>   arm/arm64: KVM: move kvm_register_device_ops() into vGIC probing
>   arm/arm64: KVM: dont rely on a valid GICH base address
>   arm/arm64: KVM: make the maximum number of vCPUs a per-VM value
>   arm/arm64: KVM: make the value of ICC_SRE_EL1 a per-VM variable
>   arm/arm64: KVM: refactor MMIO accessors
>   arm/arm64: KVM: refactor/wrap vgic_set/get_attr()
>   arm/arm64: KVM: add vgic.h header file
>   arm/arm64: KVM: split GICv2 specific emulation code from vgic.c
>   arm/arm64: KVM: add opaque private pointer to MMIO accessors
>   arm/arm64: KVM: add virtual GICv3 distributor emulation
>   arm64: KVM: add SGI system register trapping
>   arm/arm64: KVM: enable kernel side of GICv3 emulation
>   arm/arm64: KVM: allow userland to request a virtual GICv3
> 
>  arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h   |    3 +-
>  arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h      |    3 +
>  arch/arm/kvm/Makefile                |    1 +
>  arch/arm/kvm/arm.c                   |   23 +-
>  arch/arm/kvm/psci.c                  |   15 +-
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h |    3 +-
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h    |    5 +
>  arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h    |    7 +
>  arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c      |    1 +
>  arch/arm64/kvm/Makefile              |    2 +
>  arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c            |   37 +-
>  arch/arm64/kvm/vgic-v3-switch.S      |   14 +-
>  include/kvm/arm_vgic.h               |   37 +-
>  include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v3.h   |   26 +
>  include/linux/kvm_host.h             |    2 +
>  include/uapi/linux/kvm.h             |    2 +
>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v2-emul.c          |  802 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v2.c               |   26 +-
>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v3-emul.c          |  894 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v3.c               |  192 +++++--
>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c                  | 1018 +++++++---------------------------
>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic.h                  |  128 +++++
>  22 files changed, 2366 insertions(+), 875 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v2-emul.c
>  create mode 100644 virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v3-emul.c
>  create mode 100644 virt/kvm/arm/vgic.h
> 
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