Date:	Thu, 13 Nov 2014 17:02:41 +0200
From:	Nikolay Nikolaev <n.nikolaev@...tualopensystems.com>
To:	Eric Auger <eric.auger@...aro.org>
Cc:	Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@...aro.org>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	"open list:KERNEL VIRTUAL MA..." <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...nel.org>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
	VirtualOpenSystems Technical Team <tech@...tualopensystems.com>,
	kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu,
	"moderated list:ARM PORT <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, Andre
	Przywara" <Andre.Przywara@....com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] ARM: KVM: on unhandled IO mem abort, route the
 call to the KVM MMIO bus

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Eric Auger <eric.auger@...aro.org> wrote:
> On 11/13/2014 03:16 PM, Eric Auger wrote:
>> On 11/13/2014 11:45 AM, Nikolay Nikolaev wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Christoffer Dall
>>> <christoffer.dall@...aro.org> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 05:09:07PM +0200, Nikolay Nikolaev wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Christoffer Dall
>>>>> <christoffer.dall@...aro.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 04:57:26PM +0100, Antonios Motakis wrote:
>>>>>>> On an unhandled IO memory abort, use the kvm_io_bus_* API in order to
>>>>>>> handle the MMIO access through any registered read/write callbacks. This
>>>>>>> is a dependency for eventfd support (ioeventfd and irqfd).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> However, accesses to the VGIC are still left implemented independently,
>>>>>>> since the kvm_io_bus_* API doesn't pass the VCPU pointer doing the access.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Antonios Motakis <a.motakis@...tualopensystems.com>
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Nikolaev <n.nikolaev@...tualopensystems.com>
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>  arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>>>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c |  5 ++++-
>>>>>>>  2 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c b/arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c
>>>>>>> index 4cb5a93..1d17831 100644
>>>>>>> --- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c
>>>>>>> +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c
>>>>>>> @@ -162,6 +162,35 @@ static int decode_hsr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
>>>>>>>       return 0;
>>>>>>>  }
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> +/**
>>>>>>> + * kvm_handle_mmio - handle an in-kernel MMIO access
>>>>>>> + * @vcpu:    pointer to the vcpu performing the access
>>>>>>> + * @run:     pointer to the kvm_run structure
>>>>>>> + * @mmio:    pointer to the data describing the access
>>>>>>> + *
>>>>>>> + * returns true if the MMIO access has been performed in kernel space,
>>>>>>> + * and false if it needs to be emulated in user space.
>>>>>>> + */
>>>>>>> +static bool handle_kernel_mmio(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run,
>>>>>>> +             struct kvm_exit_mmio *mmio)
>>>>>>> +{
>>>>>>> +     int ret;
>>>>>>> +     if (mmio->is_write) {
>>>>>>> +             ret = kvm_io_bus_write(vcpu->kvm, KVM_MMIO_BUS, mmio->phys_addr,
>>>>>>> +                             mmio->len, &mmio->data);
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> +     } else {
>>>>>>> +             ret = kvm_io_bus_read(vcpu->kvm, KVM_MMIO_BUS, mmio->phys_addr,
>>>>>>> +                             mmio->len, &mmio->data);
>>>>>>> +     }
>>>>>>> +     if (!ret) {
>>>>>>> +             kvm_prepare_mmio(run, mmio);
>>>>>>> +             kvm_handle_mmio_return(vcpu, run);
>>>>>>> +     }
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> +     return !ret;
>>>>>>> +}
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>>  int io_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run,
>>>>>>>                phys_addr_t fault_ipa)
>>>>>>>  {
>>>>>>> @@ -200,6 +229,9 @@ int io_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run,
>>>>>>>       if (vgic_handle_mmio(vcpu, run, &mmio))
>>>>>>>               return 1;
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> +     if (handle_kernel_mmio(vcpu, run, &mmio))
>>>>>>> +             return 1;
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> We're reconsidering ioeventfds patchseries and we tried to evaluate
>>>>> what you suggested here.
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> this special-casing of the vgic is now really terrible.  Is there
>>>>>> anything holding you back from doing the necessary restructure of the
>>>>>> kvm_bus_io_*() API instead?
>>>>>
>>>>> Restructuring the kvm_io_bus_ API is not a big thing (we actually did
>>>>> it), but is not directly related to the these patches.
>>>>> Of course it can be justified if we do it in the context of removing
>>>>> vgic_handle_mmio and leaving only handle_kernel_mmio.
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That would allow us to get rid of the ugly
>>>>>> Fix it! in the vgic driver as well.
>>>>>
>>>>> Going through the vgic_handle_mmio we see that it will require large
>>>>> refactoring:
>>>>>  - there are 15 MMIO ranges for the vgic now - each should be
>>>>> registered as a separate device
> Re-correcting Andre's address, sorry:
> Hi Nikolay, Andre,
>
> what does mandate to register 15 devices? Isn't possible to register a
> single kvm_io_device covering the whole distributor range [base, base +
> KVM_VGIC_V2_DIST_SIZE] (current code) and in associated
> kvm_io_device_ops read/write locate the addressed range and do the same
> as what is done in current vgic_handle_mmio? Isn't it done that way for

Well, then we'll actually get slower mmio processing. Instead of calling
vgic_handle_mmio in io_mem_abort, we'll be calling kvm_io_bus_write.
This just adds another level of translation (i.e. find the kvm_io_ device)
and the underlying vgic code will remain almost the same.

> the ioapic? what do I miss?
I looked quickly in the ioapic code, and if I get it right there are no "ranges'
like what we have with the GIC. They have this regselect/regwindow concept
and they seem to have much less "registers" to handle. GIC seems a lot more
complex in terms of MMIO interface.

regards,
Nikolay Nikolaev

>
> Thanks
>
> Best Regards
>
> Eric
>>>>>  - the handler of each range should be split into read and write
>>>>>  - all handlers take 'struct kvm_exit_mmio', and pass it to
>>>>> 'vgic_reg_access', 'mmio_data_read' and 'mmio_data_read'
>>>>>
>>>>> To sum up - if we do this refactoring of vgic's MMIO handling +
>>>>> kvm_io_bus_ API getting 'vcpu" argument we'll get a 'much' cleaner
>>>>> vgic code and as a bonus we'll get 'ioeventfd' capabilities.
>>>>>
>>>>> We have 3 questions:
>>>>>  - is the kvm_io_bus_ getting 'vcpu' argument acceptable for the other
>>>>> architectures too?
>>>>>  - is this huge vgic MMIO handling redesign acceptable/desired (it
>>>>> touches a lot of code)?
>>>>>  - is there a way that ioeventfd is accepted leaving vgic.c in it's
>>>>> current state?
>>>>>
>>>> Not sure how the latter question is relevant to this, but check with
>>>> Andre who recently looked at this as well and decided that for GICv3 the
>>>> only sane thing was to remove that comment for the gic.
>>> @Andre - what's your experience with the GICv3 and MMIO handling,
>>> anything specific?
>>>>
>>>> I don't recall the details of what you were trying to accomplish here
>>>> (it's been 8 months or so) but the surely the vgic handling code should
>>>> *somehow* be integrated into the handle_kernel_mmio (like Paolo
>>>> suggested), unless you come back and tell me that that would involve a
>>>> complete rewrite of the vgic code.
>>> I'm experimenting now - it's not exactly rewrite of whole vgic code,
>>> but it will touch a lot of it  - all MMIO access handlers and the
>>> supporting functions.
>>> We're ready to spend the effort. My question is  - is this acceptable?
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> Nikolay Nikolaev
>>> Virtual Open Systems
>>>>
>>>> -Christoffer
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