[PATCH v6 00/20] KVM GICv3 emulation

Tue Jan 13 08:25:13 PST 2015

Hi Andre,

Is there a git repo reference that I can fetch all those patches?
http://www.linux-arm.org/git?p=linux-ap.git does not work for 'git-fetch'.
Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Tomasz

On 09.01.2015 12:54, Andre Przywara wrote:
> This is version 6 of the GICv3 guest emulation series.
> This series is now based on v3.19-rc3 plus Eric's explicit
> VGIC_CTRL_INIT patches.
>
> The rebase on top of 3.19-rc and Eric's patches required some reworks
> in 05/19 (introduce vm_ops), which rippled through to patches 08, 12,
> 13 and 15.
>
> The Aarch32 version of the ICC_SGI_EL1 sysreg is now correctly
> trapped, enabling 32-bit guests to use the GICv3 emulation (which
> needs not-yet-upstream patches to enable GICv3 support on ARM).
>
> If a host's device tree has faulty properties for the GICV property
> (unaligned base addresses or wrong region size), we just deny the
> GICv2 emulation and still allow guests to use the GICv3 emulation.
>
> There is now a new patch 18/20, which introduces a
> kvm_check_device_type() function to detect valid GIC emulation models
> for guests. This is much saner and safer than the private GIC specific
> way of achieving this functionality.
>
> Also I added the Acks from Marc (thanks for the review!), but dropped
> the 05/19 Acked-by: due to the above mentioned changes.
>
> For a changelog summary see below, also each patch carries a
> changelog. Patches 01-04, 06, 07, 09-11, 14, 16, 20 are unchanged.
>
> A git repo hosting all these patches lives in the kvm-gicv3/v6 branch
> of:
> http://www.linux-arm.org/git?p=linux-ap.git
> git://linux-arm.org/linux-ap.git
> -----
>
> 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 Linux-3.17 Marc introduced 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)
> - Only Group1 interrupts support
>
> The first patches actually refactor the current VGIC code to make
> room for a different VGIC model to be dropped in with Patch 15.
> The remaining patches connect the new model to the kernel backend and
> the userland facing code.
>
> The series goes on top of v3.19-rc3 plus Eric's init rework patches.
> The necessary patches for kvmtool to enable the guest's GICv3 have
> been posted here before [2], 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] http://www.linux-arm.org/git?p=linux-ap.git
> [2] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/pipermail/kvmarm/2014-June/010086.html
>
> Changes v5 ... v6:
> * adapt to v3.19-rc changes
> * allow GICv3 emulation in case of wrong GIC device tree properties
> * allow 32-bit guests to use GICv3
> * introduce new kvm_check_device_type() function
>
> Changes v4 ... v5:
> * fix size of GICD_IROUTER region
> * fix compilation on ARM with VGIC not configured
> * properly fix the remaining FIXME at the GICv3 memory allocation
> * minor style changes, comments and commit messages fixes
>
> Changes v3 ... v4:
> * bug-fix in handling GICv3 redistributor CFG register
> * move set/get_lr from gic_vm_ops back to vgic_ops (get rid of v3 06/19)
> * getting rid of init_emul() at all
> * rework guest GIC model initialization
> * use non-atomic bit-set and bit-clear functions
> * split up handle_mmio_misc* into multiple functions
> * refine handling of some reserved registers
> * use symbolic names for ICC_SGI1R_EL1 register fields (new patch 16/19)
> * move private parameter from MMIO accessors to struct kvm_mmio_exit
> * added documentation of new GICv3 guest device
> * added lots of comments
> * some renaming of identifiers
> * minor changes in style and code flow of various functions
>
> 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 (20):
>    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 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 data
>    arm/arm64: KVM: add virtual GICv3 distributor emulation
>    arm64: GICv3: introduce symbolic names for GICv3 ICC_SGI1R_EL1 fields
>    arm64: KVM: add SGI generation register emulation
>    KVM: introduce kvm_check_device_type()
>    arm/arm64: KVM: enable kernel side of GICv3 emulation
>    arm/arm64: KVM: allow userland to request a virtual GICv3
>
>   Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic.txt |   22 +-
>   arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h             |    5 +-
>   arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h                |    3 +
>   arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmio.h                |    1 +
>   arch/arm/kvm/Makefile                          |    1 +
>   arch/arm/kvm/arm.c                             |   23 +-
>   arch/arm/kvm/psci.c                            |   17 +-
>   arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h           |    5 +-
>   arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h              |    5 +
>   arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmio.h              |    1 +
>   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                      |   40 +-
>   arch/arm64/kvm/vgic-v3-switch.S                |   14 +-
>   drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c                   |   14 +-
>   include/kvm/arm_vgic.h                         |   41 +-
>   include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v3.h             |   44 +
>   include/linux/kvm_host.h                       |    3 +
>   include/uapi/linux/kvm.h                       |    2 +
>   virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v2-emul.c                    |  849 ++++++++++++++++++
>   virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v2.c                         |    3 +
>   virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v3-emul.c                    | 1038 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>   virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v3.c                         |   80 +-
>   virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c                            | 1095 ++++++------------------
>   virt/kvm/arm/vgic.h                            |  123 +++
>   virt/kvm/kvm_main.c                            |   33 +-
>   27 files changed, 2555 insertions(+), 917 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
>