[PATCH v8 6/7] arm/arm64: vgic: Implement VGICv3 CPU interface access

Vijay Kilari vijay.kilari at gmail.com
Fri Nov 18 10:48:53 PST 2016


On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 9:39 PM, Christoffer Dall
<christoffer.dall at linaro.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 09:25:59PM +0530, Vijay Kilari wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 12:22 AM, Christoffer Dall
>> <christoffer.dall at linaro.org> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 04:43:32PM +0530, vijay.kilari at gmail.com wrote:
>> >> From: Vijaya Kumar K <Vijaya.Kumar at cavium.com>
>> >>
>> >> VGICv3 CPU interface registers are accessed using
>> >> KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_CPU_SYSREGS ioctl. These registers are accessed
>> >> as 64-bit. The cpu MPIDR value is passed along with register id.
>> >> is used to identify the cpu for registers access.
>> >>
>> >> The version of VGIC v3 specification is define here
>> >> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2016-July/445611.html
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Pavel Fedin <p.fedin at samsung.com>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Vijaya Kumar K <Vijaya.Kumar at cavium.com>
>> >> ---
>> >>  arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h   |   3 +
>> >>  arch/arm64/kvm/Makefile             |   1 +
>> >>  include/kvm/arm_vgic.h              |   9 +
>> >>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-kvm-device.c |  27 +++
>> >>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c    |  19 +++
>> >>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-sys-reg-v3.c | 324 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> >>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v3.c         |   8 +
>> >>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.h            |   4 +
>> >>  8 files changed, 395 insertions(+)
>> >>
>> >> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h b/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
>> >> index 56dc08d..91c7137 100644
>> >> --- a/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
>> >> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
>> >> @@ -206,9 +206,12 @@ struct kvm_arch_memory_slot {
>> >>                       (0xffffffffULL << KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_V3_MPIDR_SHIFT)
>> >>  #define   KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_OFFSET_SHIFT      0
>> >>  #define   KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_OFFSET_MASK       (0xffffffffULL << KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_OFFSET_SHIFT)
>> >> +#define   KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_SYSREG_INSTR_MASK (0xffff)
>> >>  #define KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_NR_IRQS 3
>> >>  #define KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CTRL    4
>> >>  #define KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_REDIST_REGS 5
>> >> +#define KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_CPU_SYSREGS    6
>> >> +
>> >>  #define   KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_CTRL_INIT 0
>> >>
>> >>  /* Device Control API on vcpu fd */
>> >> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/Makefile b/arch/arm64/kvm/Makefile
>> >> index d50a82a..1a14e29 100644
>> >> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/Makefile
>> >> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/Makefile
>> >> @@ -32,5 +32,6 @@ kvm-$(CONFIG_KVM_ARM_HOST) += $(KVM)/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.o
>> >>  kvm-$(CONFIG_KVM_ARM_HOST) += $(KVM)/arm/vgic/vgic-kvm-device.o
>> >>  kvm-$(CONFIG_KVM_ARM_HOST) += $(KVM)/arm/vgic/vgic-its.o
>> >>  kvm-$(CONFIG_KVM_ARM_HOST) += $(KVM)/irqchip.o
>> >> +kvm-$(CONFIG_KVM_ARM_HOST) += $(KVM)/arm/vgic/vgic-sys-reg-v3.o
>> >
>> > Thi is making me wonder:  Are we properly handling GICv3 save/restore
>> > for AArch32 now that we have GICv3 support for AArch32?  By properly I
>> > mean that either it is clearly only supported on AArch64 systems or it's
>> > supported on both AArch64 and AArch32, but it shouldn't break randomly
>> > on AArch32.
>>
>> It supports both AArch64 and AArch64 in handling of system registers
>> save/restore.
>> All system registers that we save/restore are 32-bit for both aarch64
>> and aarch32.
>> Though opcode op0 should be zero for aarch32, the remaining Op and CRn codes
>> are same. However the codes sent by qemu is matched and register
>> are handled properly irrespective of AArch32 or AArch64.
>>
>> I don't have platform which support AArch32 guests to verify.
>
> Actually this is not about the guest, it's about an ARMv8 AArch32 host
> that has a GICv3.
>
> I just tried to do a v7 compile with your patches, and it results in an
> epic failure, so there's something for you to look at.
>

Could you please share you config file?. I tried with multi_v7 defconfig with
CONFIG KVM and CONFIG_KVM_ARM_HOST enabled. it compiled for me.



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