[PATCH v2 4/8] AArch{32, 64}: dynamically configure the number of GIC interrupts

Andre Przywara andre.przywara at arm.com
Fri Jun 5 01:37:49 PDT 2015


From: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>

In order to reduce the memory usage of large guests (as well
as improve performance), tell KVM about the number of interrupts
we require.

To avoid synchronization with the various device creation,
use a late_init callback to compute the GIC configuration.
[Andre: rename to gic__init_gic() to ease future expansion]

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
---
 arm/gic.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arm/gic.c b/arm/gic.c
index ce5f7fa..6277af8 100644
--- a/arm/gic.c
+++ b/arm/gic.c
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 #include "kvm/fdt.h"
+#include "kvm/irq.h"
 #include "kvm/kvm.h"
 #include "kvm/virtio.h"
 
 #include "arm-common/gic.h"
 
 #include <linux/byteorder.h>
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/kvm.h>
 
 static int gic_fd = -1;
@@ -87,6 +89,29 @@ int gic__create(struct kvm *kvm)
 	return err;
 }
 
+static int gic__init_gic(struct kvm *kvm)
+{
+	int lines = irq__get_nr_allocated_lines();
+	u32 nr_irqs = ALIGN(lines, 32) + GIC_SPI_IRQ_BASE;
+	struct kvm_device_attr nr_irqs_attr = {
+		.group	= KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_NR_IRQS,
+		.addr	= (u64)(unsigned long)&nr_irqs,
+	};
+
+	/*
+	 * If we didn't use the KVM_CREATE_DEVICE method, KVM will
+	 * give us some default number of interrupts.
+	 */
+	if (gic_fd < 0)
+		return 0;
+
+	if (!ioctl(gic_fd, KVM_HAS_DEVICE_ATTR, &nr_irqs_attr))
+		return ioctl(gic_fd, KVM_SET_DEVICE_ATTR, &nr_irqs_attr);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+late_init(gic__init_gic)
+
 void gic__generate_fdt_nodes(void *fdt, u32 phandle)
 {
 	u64 reg_prop[] = {
-- 
2.3.5




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