[PATCH v8 03/17] KVM: extend struct kvm_msi to hold a 32-bit device ID

Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Wed Jul 6 14:06:48 PDT 2016


On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 12:22:55PM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:
> The ARM GICv3 ITS MSI controller requires a device ID to be able to
> assign the proper interrupt vector. On real hardware, this ID is
> sampled from the bus. To be able to emulate an ITS controller, extend
> the KVM MSI interface to let userspace provide such a device ID. For
> PCI devices, the device ID is simply the 16-bit bus-device-function
> triplet, which should be easily available to the userland tool.
> 
> Also there is a new KVM capability which advertises whether the
> current VM requires a device ID to be set along with the MSI data.
> This flag is still reported as not available everywhere, later we will
> enable it when ITS emulation is used.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger at linaro.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 12 ++++++++++--
>  include/uapi/linux/kvm.h          |  5 ++++-
>  2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
> index 09efa9e..6551311 100644
> --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
> @@ -2175,10 +2175,18 @@ struct kvm_msi {
>  	__u32 address_hi;
>  	__u32 data;
>  	__u32 flags;
> -	__u8  pad[16];
> +	__u32 devid;
> +	__u8  pad[12];
>  };
>  
> -No flags are defined so far. The corresponding field must be 0.
> +flags: KVM_MSI_VALID_DEVID: devid contains a valid value
> +devid: If KVM_MSI_VALID_DEVID is set, contains a unique device identifier
> +       for the device that wrote the MSI message.
> +       For PCI, this is usually a BFD identifier in the lower 16 bits.
> +
> +The per-VM KVM_CAP_MSI_DEVID capability advertises the need to provide
> +the device ID. If this capability is not set, userland cannot rely on
> +the kernel to allow the KVM_MSI_VALID_DEVID flag being set.

If KVM_CAP_MSI_DEVID is set, is it an error to provide a struct kvm_msi
without the KVM_MSI_VALID_DEVID flag set, or not necessarily?

>  
>  
>  4.71 KVM_CREATE_PIT2
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
> index 05ebf47..7de96f5 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
> @@ -866,6 +866,7 @@ struct kvm_ppc_smmu_info {
>  #define KVM_CAP_ARM_PMU_V3 126
>  #define KVM_CAP_VCPU_ATTRIBUTES 127
>  #define KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPU_ID 128
> +#define KVM_CAP_MSI_DEVID 129
>  
>  #ifdef KVM_CAP_IRQ_ROUTING
>  
> @@ -1024,12 +1025,14 @@ struct kvm_one_reg {
>  	__u64 addr;
>  };
>  
> +#define KVM_MSI_VALID_DEVID	(1U << 0)
>  struct kvm_msi {
>  	__u32 address_lo;
>  	__u32 address_hi;
>  	__u32 data;
>  	__u32 flags;
> -	__u8  pad[16];
> +	__u32 devid;
> +	__u8  pad[12];
>  };
>  
>  struct kvm_arm_device_addr {
> -- 
> 2.9.0
> 

Looks good to me, but you probably need an ack from Paolo or Radim
before we can queue this.

FWIW: Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>

-Christoffer



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