[PATCH v7 0/8] Handle forwarded level-triggered interrupts

Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Thu Dec 7 02:54:10 PST 2017


This series is an alternative approach to Eric Auger's direct EOI setup
patches [1] in terms of the KVM VGIC support.

The idea is to maintain existing semantics for the VGIC for mapped
level-triggered IRQs and also support the timer using mapped IRQs with
the same VGIC support as VFIO interrupts.

Based on v4.15-rc1.

Also available at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cdall/linux.git level-mapped-v7

Changes since v6:
 - Removed double semi-colon
 - Changed another confusing conditional in patch 6
 - Fixed typos in commit message and comments

Changes since v5:
 - Rebased on v4.15-rc1
 - Changed comment on preemption code as suggested by Andre
 - Fixed white space and confusing conditionals as suggested by Drew

Changes since v4:
 - Rebased on the timer optimization series merged in the v4.15 merge
   window, which caused a fair amount of modifications to patch 3.
 - Added a static key to disable the sync operations when no VMs are
   using userspace irqchips to further optimize the performance
 - Fixed extra semicolon in vgic-mmio.c
 - Added commentary as requested during review
 - Dropped what was patch 4, because it was merged as part of GICv4
   support.
 - Factored out the VGIC input level function change as separate patch
   (helps bisect and debugging), before providing a function for the
   timer.

Changes since v3:
 - Added a number of patches and moved patches around a bit.
 - Check for uaccesses in the mmio handler functions
 - Fixed bugs in the mmio handler functions

Changes since v2:
 - Removed patch 5 from v2 and integrating the changes in what's now
   patch 5 to make it easier to reuse code when adding VFIO integration.
 - Changed the virtual distributor MMIO handling to use the
   pending_latch and more closely match the semantics of SPENDR and
   CPENDR for both level and edge mapped interrupts.

Changes since v1:
 - Added necessary changes to the timer (Patch 1)
 - Added handling of guest MMIO accesses to the virtual distributor
   (Patch 4)
 - Addressed Marc's comments from the initial RFC (mostly renames)

Thanks,
-Christoffer

[1]: https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/pipermail/kvmarm/2017-June/026072.html

Christoffer Dall (8):
  KVM: arm/arm64: Remove redundant preemptible checks
  KVM: arm/arm64: Factor out functionality to get vgic mmio
    requester_vcpu
  KVM: arm/arm64: Don't cache the timer IRQ level
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Support level-triggered mapped interrupts
  KVM: arm/arm64: Support a vgic interrupt line level sample function
  KVM: arm/arm64: Support VGIC dist pend/active changes for mapped IRQs
  KVM: arm/arm64: Provide a get_input_level for the arch timer
  KVM: arm/arm64: Avoid work when userspace iqchips are not used

 include/kvm/arm_arch_timer.h  |   2 +
 include/kvm/arm_vgic.h        |  13 ++++-
 virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c     | 105 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 virt/kvm/arm/arm.c            |   2 -
 virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c | 115 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v2.c   |  29 +++++++++++
 virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v3.c   |  29 +++++++++++
 virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.c      |  42 +++++++++++++--
 virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.h      |   8 +++
 9 files changed, 270 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-)

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