[PATCH v9 00/27] Drivers for gunyah hypervisor

Elliot Berman quic_eberman at quicinc.com
Fri Jan 20 14:45:59 PST 2023


Gunyah is a Type-1 hypervisor independent of any
high-level OS kernel, and runs in a higher CPU privilege level. It does
not depend on any lower-privileged OS kernel/code for its core
functionality. This increases its security and can support a much smaller
trusted computing base than a Type-2 hypervisor.

Gunyah is an open source hypervisor. The source repo is available at
https://github.com/quic/gunyah-hypervisor.

The diagram below shows the architecture.

::

         VM A                    VM B
     +-----+ +-----+  | +-----+ +-----+ +-----+
     |     | |     |  | |     | |     | |     |
 EL0 | APP | | APP |  | | APP | | APP | | APP |
     |     | |     |  | |     | |     | |     |
     +-----+ +-----+  | +-----+ +-----+ +-----+
 ---------------------|-------------------------
     +--------------+ | +----------------------+
     |              | | |                      |
 EL1 | Linux Kernel | | |Linux kernel/Other OS |   ...
     |              | | |                      |
     +--------------+ | +----------------------+
 --------hvc/smc------|------hvc/smc------------
     +----------------------------------------+
     |                                        |
 EL2 |            Gunyah Hypervisor           |
     |                                        |
     +----------------------------------------+

Gunyah provides these following features.

- Threads and Scheduling: The scheduler schedules virtual CPUs (VCPUs) on
physical CPUs and enables time-sharing of the CPUs.
- Memory Management: Gunyah tracks memory ownership and use of all memory
under its control. Memory partitioning between VMs is a fundamental
security feature.
- Interrupt Virtualization: All interrupts are handled in the hypervisor
and routed to the assigned VM.
- Inter-VM Communication: There are several different mechanisms provided
for communicating between VMs.
- Device Virtualization: Para-virtualization of devices is supported using
inter-VM communication. Low level system features and devices such as
interrupt controllers are supported with emulation where required.

This series adds the basic framework for detecting that Linux is running
under Gunyah as a virtual machine, communication with the Gunyah Resource
Manager, and a virtual machine manager capable of launching virtual machines.

Changes in v9:
 - Refactor Gunyah API flags to be exposed as feature flags at kernel level
 - Move mbox client cleanup into gunyah_msgq_remove()
 - Simplify gh_rm_call return value and response payload
 - Clean-up/error handling/little endian suggestions by Srivatsa and Alex in v8 series

Changes in v8: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221219225850.2397345-1-quic_eberman@quicinc.com/
 - Treat VM manager as a library of RM
 - Add patches 21-28 as RFC to support proxy-scheduled vCPUs and necessary bits to support virtio
   from Gunyah userspace

Changes in v7: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221121140009.2353512-1-quic_eberman@quicinc.com/
 - Refactor to remove gunyah RM bus
 - Refactor allow multiple RM device instances
 - Bump UAPI to start at 0x0
 - Refactor QCOM SCM's platform hooks to allow CONFIG_QCOM_SCM=Y/CONFIG_GUNYAH=M combinations

Changes in v6: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221026185846.3983888-1-quic_eberman@quicinc.com/
 - *Replace gunyah-console with gunyah VM Manager*
 - Move include/asm-generic/gunyah.h into include/linux/gunyah.h
 - s/gunyah_msgq/gh_msgq/
 - Minor tweaks and documentation tidying based on comments from Jiri, Greg, Arnd, Dmitry, and Bagas.

Changes in v5: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221011000840.289033-1-quic_eberman@quicinc.com/
 - Dropped sysfs nodes
 - Switch from aux bus to Gunyah RM bus for the subdevices
 - Cleaning up RM console

Changes in v4: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220928195633.2348848-1-quic_eberman@quicinc.com/
 - Tidied up documentation throughout based on questions/feedback received
 - Switched message queue implementation to use mailboxes
 - Renamed "gunyah_device" as "gunyah_resource"

Changes in v3: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220811214107.1074343-1-quic_eberman@quicinc.com/
 - /Maintained/Supported/ in MAINTAINERS
 - Tidied up documentation throughout based on questions/feedback received
 - Moved hypercalls into arch/arm64/gunyah/; following hyper-v's implementation
 - Drop opaque typedefs
 - Move sysfs nodes under /sys/hypervisor/gunyah/
 - Moved Gunyah console driver to drivers/tty/
 - Reworked gunyah_device design to drop the Gunyah bus.

Changes in v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220801211240.597859-1-quic_eberman@quicinc.com/
 - DT bindings clean up
 - Switch hypercalls to follow SMCCC 

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220223233729.1571114-1-quic_eberman@quicinc.com/

Elliot Berman (27):
  docs: gunyah: Introduce Gunyah Hypervisor
  dt-bindings: Add binding for gunyah hypervisor
  gunyah: Common types and error codes for Gunyah hypercalls
  virt: gunyah: Add hypercalls to identify Gunyah
  virt: gunyah: Identify hypervisor version
  mailbox: Allow direct registration to a channel
  virt: gunyah: msgq: Add hypercalls to send and receive messages
  mailbox: Add Gunyah message queue mailbox
  gunyah: rsc_mgr: Add resource manager RPC core
  gunyah: rsc_mgr: Add VM lifecycle RPC
  gunyah: vm_mgr: Introduce basic VM Manager
  gunyah: rsc_mgr: Add RPC for sharing memory
  gunyah: vm_mgr: Add/remove user memory regions
  gunyah: vm_mgr: Add ioctls to support basic non-proxy VM boot
  samples: Add sample userspace Gunyah VM Manager
  gunyah: rsc_mgr: Add platform ops on mem_lend/mem_reclaim
  firmware: qcom_scm: Use fixed width src vm bitmap
  firmware: qcom_scm: Register Gunyah platform ops
  docs: gunyah: Document Gunyah VM Manager
  virt: gunyah: Translate gh_rm_hyp_resource into gunyah_resource
  gunyah: vm_mgr: Add framework to add VM Functions
  virt: gunyah: Add resource tickets
  virt: gunyah: Add IO handlers
  virt: gunyah: Add proxy-scheduled vCPUs
  virt: gunyah: Add hypercalls for sending doorbell
  virt: gunyah: Add irqfd interface
  virt: gunyah: Add ioeventfd

 .../bindings/firmware/gunyah-hypervisor.yaml  |  82 ++
 .../userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst      |   1 +
 Documentation/virt/gunyah/index.rst           | 114 +++
 Documentation/virt/gunyah/message-queue.rst   |  69 ++
 Documentation/virt/gunyah/vm-manager.rst      | 187 ++++
 Documentation/virt/index.rst                  |   1 +
 MAINTAINERS                                   |  13 +
 arch/arm64/Kbuild                             |   1 +
 arch/arm64/gunyah/Makefile                    |   3 +
 arch/arm64/gunyah/gunyah_hypercall.c          | 149 ++++
 arch/arm64/include/asm/gunyah.h               |  23 +
 drivers/firmware/Kconfig                      |   2 +
 drivers/firmware/qcom_scm.c                   | 112 ++-
 drivers/mailbox/Makefile                      |   2 +
 drivers/mailbox/gunyah-msgq.c                 | 214 +++++
 drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c                     |  96 +-
 drivers/mailbox/omap-mailbox.c                |  19 +-
 drivers/mailbox/pcc.c                         |  18 +-
 drivers/misc/fastrpc.c                        |   2 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/qmi.c         |   4 +-
 drivers/remoteproc/qcom_q6v5_mss.c            |   8 +-
 drivers/soc/qcom/rmtfs_mem.c                  |   2 +-
 drivers/virt/Kconfig                          |   2 +
 drivers/virt/Makefile                         |   1 +
 drivers/virt/gunyah/Kconfig                   |  46 +
 drivers/virt/gunyah/Makefile                  |  11 +
 drivers/virt/gunyah/gunyah.c                  |  54 ++
 drivers/virt/gunyah/gunyah_ioeventfd.c        | 109 +++
 drivers/virt/gunyah/gunyah_irqfd.c            | 166 ++++
 drivers/virt/gunyah/gunyah_platform_hooks.c   |  63 ++
 drivers/virt/gunyah/gunyah_vcpu.c             | 358 ++++++++
 drivers/virt/gunyah/rsc_mgr.c                 | 833 ++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/virt/gunyah/rsc_mgr.h                 | 160 ++++
 drivers/virt/gunyah/rsc_mgr_rpc.c             | 457 ++++++++++
 drivers/virt/gunyah/vm_mgr.c                  | 669 ++++++++++++++
 drivers/virt/gunyah/vm_mgr.h                  |  70 ++
 drivers/virt/gunyah/vm_mgr_mm.c               | 247 ++++++
 include/linux/gunyah.h                        | 187 ++++
 include/linux/gunyah_rsc_mgr.h                | 141 +++
 include/linux/gunyah_vm_mgr.h                 | 107 +++
 include/linux/mailbox_client.h                |   1 +
 include/linux/qcom_scm.h                      |   2 +-
 include/uapi/linux/gunyah.h                   | 115 +++
 samples/Kconfig                               |  10 +
 samples/Makefile                              |   1 +
 samples/gunyah/.gitignore                     |   2 +
 samples/gunyah/Makefile                       |   6 +
 samples/gunyah/gunyah_vmm.c                   | 270 ++++++
 samples/gunyah/sample_vm.dts                  |  69 ++
 49 files changed, 5207 insertions(+), 72 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/gunyah-hypervisor.yaml
 create mode 100644 Documentation/virt/gunyah/index.rst
 create mode 100644 Documentation/virt/gunyah/message-queue.rst
 create mode 100644 Documentation/virt/gunyah/vm-manager.rst
 create mode 100644 arch/arm64/gunyah/Makefile
 create mode 100644 arch/arm64/gunyah/gunyah_hypercall.c
 create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/gunyah.h
 create mode 100644 drivers/mailbox/gunyah-msgq.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/virt/gunyah/Kconfig
 create mode 100644 drivers/virt/gunyah/Makefile
 create mode 100644 drivers/virt/gunyah/gunyah.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/virt/gunyah/gunyah_ioeventfd.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/virt/gunyah/gunyah_irqfd.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/virt/gunyah/gunyah_platform_hooks.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/virt/gunyah/gunyah_vcpu.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/virt/gunyah/rsc_mgr.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/virt/gunyah/rsc_mgr.h
 create mode 100644 drivers/virt/gunyah/rsc_mgr_rpc.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/virt/gunyah/vm_mgr.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/virt/gunyah/vm_mgr.h
 create mode 100644 drivers/virt/gunyah/vm_mgr_mm.c
 create mode 100644 include/linux/gunyah.h
 create mode 100644 include/linux/gunyah_rsc_mgr.h
 create mode 100644 include/linux/gunyah_vm_mgr.h
 create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/gunyah.h
 create mode 100644 samples/gunyah/.gitignore
 create mode 100644 samples/gunyah/Makefile
 create mode 100644 samples/gunyah/gunyah_vmm.c
 create mode 100644 samples/gunyah/sample_vm.dts


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