[PATCH 00/10] arm/arm64: KVM: Active interrupt state switching for shared devices

[Eric Auger]

Hi Marc,
On 06/08/2015 07:03 PM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> From day 1, our timer code has been using a terrible hack: whenever
> the guest is scheduled with a timer interrupt pending (i.e. the HW
> timer has expired), we restore the timer state with the MASK bit set,
> in order to avoid the physical interrupt to fire again. And again. And
> again...
> 
> This is absolutely silly, for at least two reasons:
> 
> - This relies on the device (the timer) having a mask bit that we can
>   play with. Not all devices are built like this.
> 
> - This expects some behaviour of the guest that only works because the
>   both the kernel timer code and the KVM counterpart have been written
>   by the same idiot (the idiot being me).
> 
> The One True Way is to set the GIC active bit when injecting the
> interrupt, and to context-switch across the world switch. This is what
> this series implements.
> 
> We introduce a relatively simple infrastructure enabling the mapping
> of a virtual interrupt with its physical counterpart:
> 
> - Whenever an virtual interrupt is injected, we look it up in an
>   rbtree. If we have a match, the interrupt is injected with the HW
>   bit set in the LR, together with the physical interrupt.
> 
> - Across the world switch, we save/restore the active state for these
>   interrupts using the irqchip_state API.
> 
> - On guest EOI, the HW interrupt is automagically deactivated by the
>   GIC, allowing the interrupt to be resampled.

I am lost about the status of the irqchip part, allowing EOImode=1 and
only dropping the prio for physical forwarded IRQs:
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1410.3/00913.html
Doesn't this series also depend on those patches or did I miss something
on the ML?

Best Regards

Eric

> 
> The timer code is slightly modified to set the active state at the
> same time as the injection.
> 
> The last patch also allows non-shared devices to have their interrupt
> deactivated the same way (in this case we do not context-switch the
> active state). This is the first step in the long overdue direction of
> the mythical IRQ forwarding thing...
> 
> This series is based on v4.1-rc7, and has been tested on Juno (GICv2)
> and the FVP Base model (GICv3 host, both GICv2 and GICv3 guests). I'd
> appreciate any form of testing, specially in the context of guest
> migration (there is obviously some interesting stuff there...).



> 
> The code is otherwise available at
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms.git kvm-arm64/active-timer
> 
> Marc Zyngier (10):
>   arm/arm64: KVM: Fix ordering of timer/GIC on guest entry
>   arm/arm64: KVM: Move vgic handling to a non-preemptible section
>   KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Convert struct vgic_lr to use bitfields
>   KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Allow HW irq to be encoded in LR
>   KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Relax vgic_can_sample_irq for edge IRQs
>   KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Allow dynamic mapping of physical/virtual
>     interrupts
>   KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Allow HW interrupts to be queued to a guest
>   KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Add vgic_{get,set}_phys_irq_active
>   KVM: arm/arm64: timer: Allow the timer to control the active state
>   KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Allow non-shared device HW interrupts
> 
>  arch/arm/kvm/arm.c                 |  21 +++-
>  include/kvm/arm_arch_timer.h       |   3 +
>  include/kvm/arm_vgic.h             |  31 +++++-
>  include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v3.h |   3 +
>  include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic.h    |   3 +-
>  virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c          |  13 ++-
>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v2.c             |  16 ++-
>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v3.c             |  21 +++-
>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c                | 206 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  9 files changed, 300 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>