[PATCH v3 4/5] KVM: arm/arm64: Report PMU overflow interrupts to userspace irqchip

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Thu Apr 6 10:12:10 PDT 2017


On 05/04/17 10:28, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> From: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
> 
> When not using an in-kernel VGIC, but instead emulating an interrupt
> controller in userspace, we should report the PMU overflow status to
> that userspace interrupt controller using the KVM_CAP_ARM_USER_IRQ
> feature.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm/kvm/arm.c    |  9 ++++++---
>  include/kvm/arm_pmu.h |  7 +++++++
>  virt/kvm/arm/pmu.c    | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  3 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
> index efb16e5..f935383 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
> @@ -635,11 +635,13 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run)
>  
>  		/*
>  		 * If we have a singal pending, or need to notify a userspace
> -		 * irqchip about timer level changes, then we exit (and update
> -		 * the timer level state in kvm_timer_update_run below).
> +		 * irqchip about timer or PMU level changes, then we exit (and
> +		 * update the timer level state in kvm_timer_update_run
> +		 * below).
>  		 */
>  		if (signal_pending(current) ||
> -		    kvm_timer_should_notify_user(vcpu)) {
> +		    kvm_timer_should_notify_user(vcpu) ||
> +		    kvm_pmu_should_notify_user(vcpu)) {
>  			ret = -EINTR;
>  			run->exit_reason = KVM_EXIT_INTR;
>  		}
> @@ -713,6 +715,7 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run)
>  
>  	/* Tell userspace about in-kernel device output levels */
>  	kvm_timer_update_run(vcpu);
> +	kvm_pmu_update_run(vcpu);

Very minor nit: as we now have a couple of functions that are going to
check the same thing (irqchip_in_kernel), we could consider moving the
test here.  I don't have strong feelings about it though.

Thanks,

	M.
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