[PATCH v2 00/13] RISC-V: Add steal-time support

Andrew Jones ajones at ventanamicro.com
Thu Dec 14 02:15:52 PST 2023


One frequently touted benefit of virtualization is the ability to
consolidate machines, increasing resource utilization.  It may even be
desirable to overcommit, at the risk of one or more VCPUs having to wait.
Hypervisors which have interfaces for guests to retrieve the amount of
time each VCPU had to wait give observers within the guests ways to
account for less progress than would otherwise be expected. The SBI STA
extension[1] provides a standard interface for guest VCPUs to retrieve
the amount of time "stolen".

This series has three parts:
 1) Patches 01-03 - Add paravirt support to RISC-V and implement
                    steal-time accounting support using the SBI STA
                    extension.
 2) Patches 04-09 - Implement SBI STA in KVM so KVM guests, such as
                    Linux guests which enable the paravirt steal-time
                    support, can be enlightened about stolen time.
 3) Patches 10-13 - Add RISC-V support to the KVM selftests steal_time
                    test and the SBI extension regs in the get-reg-list
                    test.

These patches are based on kvm-riscv/riscv_kvm_queue

[1] https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-sbi-doc/blob/master/src/ext-steal-time.adoc

This patches are also available here
https://github.com/jones-drew/linux/commits/kvm/steal-time-v2

Changes since v1:
 - sbi_sta_steal_time_set_shmem() now maps SBI errors to linux errors [Conor]
 - Squashed v1 patch 4 into v1 patch 3 [Conor]
 - Moved kvm_riscv_vcpu_set/get_reg_sbi() to arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_sbi.c
   which seems like a more appropriate file for them
 - Rebased on kvm-riscv/riscv_kvm_queue which has all the dependencies

Changes since RFC:
 - Rebased on v6.7-rc3 (plus the patches mentioned above)
 - Added defines for the -1's [Conor]
 - Added a comment to the steal read sequence [Conor]
 - Only do the steal read sequence for 32-bit and added READ_ONCE's
 - Check for SBI v2.0 implementation
 - Rename set_steal_time_shmem to steal_time_set_shmem
 - Add get-reg-list support and test with get-reg-list kselftest
 - A few other minor improvements
 - Picked up one r-b from Conor

Thanks,
drew


Andrew Jones (13):
  RISC-V: paravirt: Add skeleton for pv-time support
  RISC-V: Add SBI STA extension definitions
  RISC-V: paravirt: Implement steal-time support
  RISC-V: KVM: Add SBI STA extension skeleton
  RISC-V: KVM: Add steal-update vcpu request
  RISC-V: KVM: Add SBI STA info to vcpu_arch
  RISC-V: KVM: Add support for SBI extension registers
  RISC-V: KVM: Add support for SBI STA registers
  RISC-V: KVM: Implement SBI STA extension
  RISC-V: KVM: selftests: Move sbi_ecall to processor.c
  RISC-V: KVM: selftests: Add guest_sbi_probe_extension
  RISC-V: KVM: selftests: Add steal_time test support
  RISC-V: KVM: selftests: Add get-reg-list test for STA registers

 .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt         |   6 +-
 arch/riscv/Kconfig                            |  19 ++
 arch/riscv/include/asm/kvm_host.h             |   9 +
 arch/riscv/include/asm/kvm_vcpu_sbi.h         |  10 +
 arch/riscv/include/asm/paravirt.h             |  28 +++
 arch/riscv/include/asm/paravirt_api_clock.h   |   1 +
 arch/riscv/include/asm/sbi.h                  |  17 ++
 arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h             |  13 ++
 arch/riscv/kernel/Makefile                    |   1 +
 arch/riscv/kernel/paravirt.c                  | 138 ++++++++++++
 arch/riscv/kernel/time.c                      |   3 +
 arch/riscv/kvm/Kconfig                        |   1 +
 arch/riscv/kvm/Makefile                       |   1 +
 arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu.c                         |   7 +
 arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_onereg.c                  |  50 ++++-
 arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_sbi.c                     |  67 ++++++
 arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_sbi_sta.c                 | 202 ++++++++++++++++++
 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile          |   5 +-
 .../selftests/kvm/include/riscv/processor.h   |  22 ++
 .../selftests/kvm/lib/riscv/processor.c       |  45 ++++
 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/riscv/ucall.c |  26 ---
 .../selftests/kvm/riscv/get-reg-list.c        |  43 ++++
 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/steal_time.c      |  99 +++++++++
 23 files changed, 778 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/riscv/include/asm/paravirt.h
 create mode 100644 arch/riscv/include/asm/paravirt_api_clock.h
 create mode 100644 arch/riscv/kernel/paravirt.c
 create mode 100644 arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_sbi_sta.c

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