[PATCH v6 00/20] KVM GICv3 emulation

Eric Auger eric.auger at linaro.org
Wed Jan 14 00:51:40 PST 2015


Hi Tomasz

I confirm I have the same issue and this git was working fine before for me.

Best Regards

Eric

On 01/14/2015 09:50 AM, Tomasz Nowicki wrote:
> Hi Andre,
> 
> I heve just tried and got:
> 
> $ git clone git://linux-arm.org/linux-ap.git
> Cloning into 'linux-ap'...
> fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
> 
> Please make sure you have the correct access rights
> and the repository exists.
> 
> Regards,
> Tomasz
> 
> 
> On 14.01.2015 01:04, Andre Przywara wrote:
>> On 01/13/2015 04:25 PM, Tomasz Nowicki wrote:
>>
>> Hi Tomasz,
>>
>>> 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!
>>
>> Try:
>>     git://linux-arm.org/linux-ap.git
>>
>> (as referenced a bit hidden below ;-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andre.
>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>




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