[PATCH 00/16] KVM: arm64: Rework timer offsetting for fun and profit
Marc Zyngier
maz at kernel.org
Thu Feb 16 06:21:07 PST 2023
This series aims at satisfying multiple goals:
- allow a VMM to atomically restore a timer offset for a whole VM
instead of updating the offset each time a vcpu get its counter
written
- allow a VMM to save/restore the physical timer context, something
that we cannot do at the moment due to the lack of offsetting
- provide a framework that is suitable for NV support, where we get
both global and per timer, per vcpu offsetting
We fix a couple of issues along the way, both from a stylistic and
correctness perspective. This results in a new per VM KVM API that
allows a pair of global offsets to be set at any point in time,
overriding the timer counter writeback.
This has been moderately tested with nVHE, VHE and NV. I do not have
access to CNTPOFF-aware HW, so the jury is still out on that one. Note
that the NV patches in this series are here to give a perspective on
how this gets used.
I've updated the arch_timer selftest to allow offsets to be provided
from the command line, but the arch_test is pretty flimsy and tends to
fail with an error==EINTR, even without this series. Something to
investigate.
Note that this is at best 6.4 material. I have a branch stashed at [1]
and based on kvmarm/next.
Thanks,
M.
[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms.git/log/?h=kvm-arm64/timer-vm-offsets
Marc Zyngier (16):
arm64: Add CNTPOFF_EL2 register definition
arm64: Add HAS_ECV_CNTPOFF capability
kvm: arm64: Expose {un,}lock_all_vcpus() to the reset of KVM
KVM: arm64: timers: Use a per-vcpu, per-timer accumulator for
fractional ns
KVM: arm64: timers: Convert per-vcpu virtual offset to a global value
KVM: arm64: timers: Use CNTPOFF_EL2 to offset the physical timer
KVM: arm64: timers: Allow physical offset without CNTPOFF_EL2
KVM: arm64: timers: Allow userspace to set the counter offsets
KVM: arm64: timers: Allow save/restoring of the physical timer
KVM: arm64: timers: Rationalise per-vcpu timer init
KVM: arm64: Document KVM_ARM_SET_CNT_OFFSETS and co
KVM: arm64: nv: timers: Add a per-timer, per-vcpu offset
KVM: arm64: nv: timers: Support hyp timer emulation
KVM: arm64: selftests: Add physical timer registers to the sysreg list
KVM: arm64: selftests: Augment existing timer test to handle variable
offsets
KVM: arm64: selftests: Deal with spurious timer interrupts
Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 47 ++
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 14 +
arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h | 15 +
arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 11 +
arch/arm64/kvm/arch_timer.c | 443 ++++++++++++++----
arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c | 47 ++
arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c | 29 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/timer-sr.c | 18 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/hypercalls.c | 2 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/trace_arm.h | 6 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-kvm-device.c | 38 --
arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic.c | 15 +
arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic.h | 3 -
arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps | 1 +
arch/arm64/tools/sysreg | 4 +
include/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.h | 1 +
include/kvm/arm_arch_timer.h | 32 +-
include/kvm/arm_vgic.h | 1 +
include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 3 +
.../selftests/kvm/aarch64/arch_timer.c | 26 +-
.../selftests/kvm/aarch64/get-reg-list.c | 5 +-
21 files changed, 603 insertions(+), 158 deletions(-)
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