[PATCH v3 0/4] KVM: arm64: Add VLPI migration support on GICv4.1

Shenming Lu lushenming at huawei.com
Fri Feb 26 03:58:37 EST 2021


Hi Marc,

Gentle ping. Does this series need any further modification? Wish you can pick it up. :-)

Thanks,
Shenming

On 2021/1/27 20:13, Shenming Lu wrote:
> Hi Marc, sorry for the late commit.
> 
> In GICv4.1, migration has been supported except for (directly-injected)
> VLPI. And GICv4.1 Spec explicitly gives a way to get the VLPI's pending
> state (which was crucially missing in GICv4.0). So we make VLPI migration
> capable on GICv4.1 in this patch set.
> 
> In order to support VLPI migration, we need to save and restore all
> required configuration information and pending states of VLPIs. But
> in fact, the configuration information of VLPIs has already been saved
> (or will be reallocated on the dst host...) in vgic(kvm) migration.
> So we only have to migrate the pending states of VLPIs specially.
> 
> Below is the related workflow in migration.
> 
> On the save path:
> 	In migration completion:
> 		pause all vCPUs
> 				|
> 		call each VM state change handler:
> 			pause other devices (just keep from sending interrupts, and
> 			such as VFIO migration protocol has already realized it [1])
> 					|
> 			flush ITS tables into guest RAM
> 					|
> 			flush RDIST pending tables (also flush VLPI state here)
> 				|
> 		...
> On the resume path:
> 	load each device's state:
> 		restore ITS tables (include pending tables) from guest RAM
> 				|
> 		for other (PCI) devices (paused), if configured to have VLPIs,
> 		establish the forwarding paths of their VLPIs (and transfer
> 		the pending states from kvm's vgic to VPT here)
> 
> We have tested this series in VFIO migration, and found some related
> issues in QEMU [2].
> 
> Links:
> [1] vfio: UAPI for migration interface for device state:
>     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a8a24f3f6e38103b77cf399c38eb54e1219d00d6
> [2] vfio: Some fixes and optimizations for VFIO migration:
>     https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/cover/1413263/
> 
> History:
> 
> v2 -> v3
>  - Add the vgic initialized check to ensure that the allocation and enabling
>    of the doorbells have already been done before unmapping the vPEs.
>  - Check all get_vlpi_state related conditions in save_pending_tables in one place.
>  - Nit fixes.
> 
> v1 -> v2:
>  - Get the VLPI state from the KVM side.
>  - Nit fixes.
> 
> Thanks,
> Shenming
> 
> 
> Shenming Lu (3):
>   KVM: arm64: GICv4.1: Add function to get VLPI state
>   KVM: arm64: GICv4.1: Try to save hw pending state in
>     save_pending_tables
>   KVM: arm64: GICv4.1: Give a chance to save VLPI's pending state
> 
> Zenghui Yu (1):
>   KVM: arm64: GICv4.1: Restore VLPI's pending state to physical side
> 
>  .../virt/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-its.rst         |  2 +-
>  arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-its.c                |  6 +-
>  arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v3.c                 | 61 +++++++++++++++++--
>  arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v4.c                 | 33 ++++++++++
>  arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic.h                    |  1 +
>  5 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 



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