[PATCH v3] KVM: arm/arm64: Add VGICv3 save/restore API documentation

Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Wed May 18 10:04:13 PDT 2016


On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 04:05:19PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 13/05/16 15:43, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> > Factor out the GICv3-specific documentation into a separate
> > documentation file.  Add description for how to access distributor,
> > redistributor, and CPU interface registers for GICv3 in this new file,
> > and add a group for accesing level triggered IRQ information for GICv3
> 
> accessing
> 
> > as well.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
> > ---
> > Changes since v2:
> >  - Changed distributor access to be 32-bits in size
> >  - Clearly specified data type pointed to by addr field
> >  - Specified exception behavior for STATUSR registers
> >  - Added group for level-triggered IRQ status info
> >  - Removed acks from Marc/Peter as content has changed
> > 
> >  Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-v3.txt | 176 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic.txt    |  21 +--
> >  2 files changed, 180 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-v3.txt
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-v3.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-v3.txt
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..69201e8
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-v3.txt
> > @@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
> > +ARM Virtual Generic Interrupt Controller v3 and later (VGICv3)
> > +==============================================================
> > +
> > +
> > +Device types supported:
> > +  KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V3     ARM Generic Interrupt Controller v3.0
> > +
> > +Only one VGIC instance may be instantiated through this API.  The created VGIC
> > +will act as the VM interrupt controller, requiring emulated user-space devices
> > +to inject interrupts to the VGIC instead of directly to CPUs.  It is not
> > +possible to create both a GICv3 and GICv2 on the same VM.
> > +
> > +Creating a guest GICv3 device requires a host GICv3 as well.
> > +
> > +Groups:
> > +  KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_ADDR
> > +  Attributes:
> > +    KVM_VGIC_V3_ADDR_TYPE_DIST (rw, 64-bit)
> > +      Base address in the guest physical address space of the GICv3 distributor
> > +      register mappings. Only valid for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V3.
> > +      This address needs to be 64K aligned and the region covers 64 KByte.
> > +
> > +    KVM_VGIC_V3_ADDR_TYPE_REDIST (rw, 64-bit)
> > +      Base address in the guest physical address space of the GICv3
> > +      redistributor register mappings. There are two 64K pages for each
> > +      VCPU and all of the redistributor pages are contiguous.
> > +      Only valid for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V3.
> > +      This address needs to be 64K aligned.
> > +
> > +
> > +  KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_DIST_REGS
> > +  KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_REDIST_REGS
> > +  Attributes:
> > +    The attr field of kvm_device_attr encodes two values:
> > +    bits:     | 63   ....  32  |  31   ....    0 |
> > +    values:   |      mpidr     |      offset     |
> > +
> > +    All distributor regs are (rw, 32-bit) and kvm_device_attr.addr points to a
> > +    __u32 value.  64-bit registers must be accessed by separately accessing the
> > +    lower and higher word.
> > +
> > +    Writes to read-only registers can be ignored by the kernel.
> > +
> > +    KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_DIST_REGS accesses the main distributor registers.
> > +    KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_REDIST_REGS accesses the redistributor of the CPU
> > +    specified by the mpidr.
> > +
> > +    The offset is relative to the "[Re]Distributor base address" as defined
> > +    in the GICv3/4 specs.  Getting or setting such a register has the same
> > +    effect as reading or writing the register on real hardware (except for
> > +    GICD_STATUS and GICR_STATUSR, see blow), and the mpidr field is used to
> 
>                                          below
> 
> > +    specify which redistributor is accessed.  The mpidr is ignored for the
> > +    distributor.
> > +
> > +    The mpidr encoding is based on the affinity information in the
> > +    architecture defined MPIDR, and the field is encoded as follows:
> > +      | 63 .... 56 | 55 .... 48 | 47 .... 40 | 39 .... 32 |
> > +      |    Aff3    |    Aff2    |    Aff1    |    Aff0    |
> > +
> > +    Note that distributor fields are not banked, but return the same value
> > +    regardless of the mpidr used to access the register.
> > +
> > +    The GICD_STATUSR and GICR_STATUSR registers are architecturally defined such
> > +    that a write of a clear bit has no effect, whereas a write with a set bit
> > +    clears that value.  To allow userspace to freely set the values of these two
> > +    registers, setting the attributes with the register offsets for these two
> > +    registers simply sets the non-reserved bits to the value written.
> > +  Limitations:
> > +    - Priorities are not implemented, and registers are RAZ/WI
> > +  Errors:
> > +    -ENXIO: Getting or setting this register is not yet supported
> > +    -EBUSY: One or more VCPUs are running
> > +
> > +
> > +  KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_CPU_SYSREGS
> > +  Attributes:
> > +    The attr field of kvm_device_attr encodes two values:
> > +    bits:     | 63      ....       32 | 31  ....  16 | 15  ....  0 |
> > +    values:   |         mpidr         |      RES     |    instr    |
> > +
> > +    The mpidr field encodes the CPU ID based on the affinity information in the
> > +    architecture defined MPIDR, and the field is encoded as follows:
> > +      | 63 .... 56 | 55 .... 48 | 47 .... 40 | 39 .... 32 |
> > +      |    Aff3    |    Aff2    |    Aff1    |    Aff0   |
> > +
> > +    The instr field encodes the system register to access based on the fields
> > +    defined in the A64 instruction set encoding for system register access
> > +    (RES means the bits are reserved for future use and should be zero):
> 
> Should we call this field RES0 in order to match the various
> architecture documents?
> 
> > +
> > +      | 15 ... 14 | 13 ... 11 | 10 ... 7 | 6 ... 3 | 2 ... 0 |
> > +      |   Op 0    |    Op1    |    CRn   |   CRm   |   Op2   |
> > +
> > +    All system regs accessed through this API are (rw, 64-bit) and
> > +    kvm_device_attr.addr points to a __u64 value.
> > +
> > +    KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_CPU_SYSREGS accesses the CPU interface registers for the
> > +    CPU specified by the mpidr field.
> > +
> > +
> > +  Limitations:
> > +    - Priorities are not implemented, and registers are RAZ/WI
> 
> Is that still true? We should also document the lack of Group0 support.
> 
> > +  Errors:
> > +    -ENXIO: Getting or setting this register is not yet supported
> > +    -EBUSY: VCPU is running
> > +    -EINVAL: Invalid mpidr supplied
> > +
> > +
> > +  KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_NR_IRQS
> > +  Attributes:
> > +    A value describing the number of interrupts (SGI, PPI and SPI) for
> > +    this GIC instance, ranging from 64 to 1024, in increments of 32.
> > +
> > +    kvm_device_attr.addr points to a __u32 value.
> > +
> > +  Errors:
> > +    -EINVAL: Value set is out of the expected range
> > +    -EBUSY: Value has already be set.
> > +
> > +
> > +  KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CTRL
> > +  Attributes:
> > +    KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_CTRL_INIT
> > +      request the initialization of the VGIC, no additional parameter in
> > +      kvm_device_attr.addr.
> > +  Errors:
> > +    -ENXIO: VGIC not properly configured as required prior to calling
> > +     this attribute
> > +    -ENODEV: no online VCPU
> > +    -ENOMEM: memory shortage when allocating vgic internal data
> > +
> > +
> > +  KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_LEVEL_INFO
> > +  Attributes:
> > +    The attr field of kvm_device_attr encodes the following values:
> > +    bits:     | 63      ....       32 | 31   ....    10 | 9  ....  0 |
> > +    values:   |         mpidr         |      info       |   vINTID   |
> > +
> > +    The vINTID specifies which set of IRQs is reported on.
> > +
> > +    The info field specifies which information userspace wants to get or set
> > +    using this interface.  Currently we support two different pieces of
> > +    information:
> > +
> > +      VGIC_LEVEL_INFO_LINE_LEVEL:
> > +        Get/Set the intput level of the IRQ line for a given IRQ.
> > +	vINTID must be a multiple of 32.
> 
> Is it for a single interrupt, or a set of 32 interrupts? I believe this
> is the latter, so the "for a given IRQ" is a bit misleading ("for a set
> of 32 contiguous interrupts"?).
> 
> > +
> > +        kvm_device_attr.addr points to a __u32 value which will contain a
> > +	bitmap where a set bit means the interrupt level is asserted.
> > +
> > +	Bit[n] indicates the status for interrupt vINTID + n.
> > +
> > +
> > +      VGIC_LEVEL_INFO_SOFT_PENDING
> > +        Get/Set the latch state of a GIVEN level-triggered IRQ as manipulated by
> > +	guest writes to GICD_SPENDR.
> > +	vINTID must be a multiple of 32.
> 
> Same here. Also, can you clear the soft-pending bit through this
> interface? If so, this is not equivalent to a write to GICD_SPENDR.
> 
> > +
> > +        kvm_device_attr.addr points to a __u32 value which will contain a
> > +	bitmap where a set bit means the guest has set the interrupt by writing
> > +	to the SPENDR.
> > +
> > +	Bit[n] indicates the status for interrupt vINTID + n.
> > +
> > +
> > +    SGIs and any interrupt with a higher ID than the number of interrupts
> 
>                                             INTID
> 
> > +    supported, will be RAZ/WI.  LPIs are always edge-triggered and are
> > +    therefore not supported by this interface.
> > +
> > +    PPIs are reported per VCPU as specified in the mpidr field, and SPIs are
> > +    reported with the same value regardless of the mpidr specified.
> > +
> > +    The mpidr field encodes the CPU ID based on the affinity information in the
> > +    architecture defined MPIDR, and the field is encoded as follows:
> > +      | 63 .... 56 | 55 .... 48 | 47 .... 40 | 39 .... 32 |
> > +      |    Aff3    |    Aff2    |    Aff1    |    Aff0   |
> > diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic.txt
> > index 59541d4..257b854 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic.txt
> > @@ -3,16 +3,16 @@ ARM Virtual Generic Interrupt Controller (VGIC)
> >  
> >  Device types supported:
> >    KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V2     ARM Generic Interrupt Controller v2.0
> > -  KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V3     ARM Generic Interrupt Controller v3.0
> >  
> >  Only one VGIC instance may be instantiated through either this API or the
> >  legacy KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP api.  The created VGIC will act as the VM interrupt
> >  controller, requiring emulated user-space devices to inject interrupts to the
> >  VGIC instead of directly to CPUs.
> >  
> > -Creating a guest GICv3 device requires a host GICv3 as well.
> > -GICv3 implementations with hardware compatibility support allow a guest GICv2
> > -as well.
> > +GICv3 implementations with hardware compatibility support allow creating a
> > +guest GICv2 through this interface.  For information on creating a guest GICv3
> > +device, see arm-vgic-v3.txt.  It is not possible to create both a GICv3 and
> > +GICv2 device on the same VM.
> >  
> >  Groups:
> >    KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_ADDR
> > @@ -27,19 +27,6 @@ Groups:
> >        interface register mappings. Only valid for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V2.
> >        This address needs to be 4K aligned and the region covers 4 KByte.
> >  
> > -    KVM_VGIC_V3_ADDR_TYPE_DIST (rw, 64-bit)
> > -      Base address in the guest physical address space of the GICv3 distributor
> > -      register mappings. Only valid for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V3.
> > -      This address needs to be 64K aligned and the region covers 64 KByte.
> > -
> > -    KVM_VGIC_V3_ADDR_TYPE_REDIST (rw, 64-bit)
> > -      Base address in the guest physical address space of the GICv3
> > -      redistributor register mappings. There are two 64K pages for each
> > -      VCPU and all of the redistributor pages are contiguous.
> > -      Only valid for KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V3.
> > -      This address needs to be 64K aligned.
> > -
> > -
> >    KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_DIST_REGS
> >    Attributes:
> >      The attr field of kvm_device_attr encodes two values:
> > 
> 

Ack on all your points, will consider them on respin.

-Christoffer



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