linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm64: KVM: export current vcpu->pause state via pseudo regs

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Date:	Thu, 31 Jul 2014 18:04:30 +0100
From:	Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@...aro.org>
To:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:	Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@...aro.org>,
	"kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu" <kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu>,
	arm-mail-list <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	kvm-devel <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: KVM: export current vcpu->pause state via pseudo regs

On 31 July 2014 17:57, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com> wrote:
> Il 09/07/2014 15:55, Alex Bennée ha scritto:
>> To cleanly restore an SMP VM we need to ensure that the current pause
>> state of each vcpu is correctly recorded. Things could get confused if
>> the CPU starts running after migration restore completes when it was
>> paused before it state was captured.
>>
>> I've done this by exposing a register (currently only 1 bit used) via
>> the GET/SET_ONE_REG logic to pass the state between KVM and the VM
>> controller (e.g. QEMU).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@...aro.org>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h |  8 +++++
>>  arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c            | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>  2 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Since it's a pseudo register anyway, would it make sense to use the
> existing KVM_GET/SET_MP_STATE ioctl interface?

That appears to be an x86-specific thing relating to
IRQ chips.

> How is this represented within QEMU in TCG mode?

We don't implement it in TCG yet; Rob Herring has posted
patches but they had a few minor issues (didn't compile
on non-Linux hosts). The answer will be 'in a "bool powered_off"
flag in struct ARMCPU'.

> Also, how is KVM/ARM
> representing (and passing to QEMU) the halted state of the
> VCPU?

We don't. In ARM the equivalent of x86 HLT (which is
WFI, wait-for-interrupt) is allowed to resume at any time.
So we don't need to care about saving and restoring
whether we were sat in a WFI at point of migration.

thanks
-- PMM
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