Date:	Mon, 24 Nov 2014 08:34:43 +0000
From:	"Wu, Feng" <feng.wu@...el.com>
To:	Eric Auger <eric.auger@...aro.org>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v3 0/8] KVM-VFIO IRQ forward control



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Auger [mailto:eric.auger@...aro.org]
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] KVM-VFIO IRQ forward control
> 
> On 11/24/2014 09:14 AM, Wu, Feng wrote:
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Eric Auger [mailto:eric.auger@...aro.org]
> >> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 2:36 AM
> >> To: eric.auger@...com; eric.auger@...aro.org; christoffer.dall@...aro.org;
> >> marc.zyngier@....com; linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org;
> >> kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu; kvm@...r.kernel.org;
> >> alex.williamson@...hat.com; joel.schopp@....com;
> >> kim.phillips@...escale.com; paulus@...ba.org; gleb@...nel.org;
> >> pbonzini@...hat.com; agraf@...e.de
> >> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; patches@...aro.org;
> will.deacon@....com;
> >> a.motakis@...tualopensystems.com; a.rigo@...tualopensystems.com;
> >> john.liuli@...wei.com; ming.lei@...onical.com; Wu, Feng
> >> Subject: [PATCH v3 0/8] KVM-VFIO IRQ forward control
> >>
> >> This series proposes an integration of "ARM: Forwarding physical
> >> interrupts to a guest VM" (http://lwn.net/Articles/603514/) in
> >> KVM.
> >>
> >> It enables to transform a VFIO platform driver IRQ into a forwarded
> >> IRQ.
> >>
> >> When a physical IRQ is forwarded (to a guest), the host does not
> >> deactivates this latter. Completion ownership is transferred to the
> >> guest. When the guest deactivates the associated virtual IRQ,
> >> the interrupt controler automatically completes the physical IRQ.
> >> Obviously this requires some dedicated HW support in the interrupt
> >> controler.
> >>
> >> The direct benefit is that, for a level sensitive IRQ, it avoids a
> >> VM exit on forwarded IRQ completion.
> >>
> >> When the IRQ is forwarded, the VFIO platform driver does not need to
> >> mask the physical IRQ anymore before signaling the eventfd. Indeed
> >> genirq lowers the running priority, enabling other physical IRQ to hit
> >> except that one.
> >>
> >> Besides, the injection still is based on irqfd triggering. The only
> >> impact on irqfd process is resamplefd is not called anymore on
> >> virtual IRQ completion since this latter becomes "transparent".
> >>
> >> The current integration is based on an extension of the KVM-VFIO
> >> device, previously used by KVM to interact with VFIO groups. The
> >> patch series now enables KVM to directly interact with a VFIO
> >> platform device. The VFIO external API was extended for that purpose.
> >>
> >> Th KVM-VFIO device can get/put the vfio platform device, check its
> >> integrity and type, get the IRQ number associated to an IRQ index.
> >>
> >> The IRQ forward programming is architecture specific (virtual interrupt
> >> controller programming basically). However the whole infrastructure is
> >> kept generic.
> >>
> >> from a user point of view, the functionality is provided through a
> >> new KVM-VFIO group named KVM_DEV_VFIO_DEVICE and 2 associated
> >> attributes:
> >> - KVM_DEV_VFIO_DEVICE_FORWARD_IRQ,
> >> - KVM_DEV_VFIO_DEVICE_UNFORWARD_IRQ.
> >>
> >> The capability can be checked with KVM_HAS_DEVICE_ATTR.
> >>
> >> Forwarding must be activated before VFIO signaling mechanism is set
> >> using VFIO_DEVICE_SET_IRQS and unset while the signaling is disabled.
> >>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> This patch series has the following dependencies:
> >> - "ARM: Forwarding physical interrupts to a guest VM"
> >>   (http://lwn.net/Articles/603514/)
> >> - [PATCH v9 00/19] VFIO support for platform and AMBA devices on ARM
> >>   (http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm-arm/msg11745.html)
> >> - [PATCH v2 0/6] vfio: type1: support for ARM SMMUS with
> >> VFIO_IOMMU_TYPE1
> >>   (http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm-arm/msg11738.html)
> >>
> >> Integrated pieces can be found at
> >> ssh://git.linaro.org/people/eric.auger/linux.git
> >> on branch irqfd_integ_v8
> >>
> >> This was was tested on Calxeda Midway, assigning the xgmac main IRQ.
> >>
> >
> > Hi Eric,
> >
> > Did you send out the latest QEMU part for this patch set, I notice that v6 of
> > The QEMU part is sent out, but seems some structure in this new version
> > has been changed, such as, struct kvm_arch_forwarded_irq (subindex is
> added
> > in this version), so a new patchset in QEMU is also needed.
> 
> Hi Feng,
> 
> v7 is available at:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-10/msg03804.html. It
> already illustrates KVM-VFIO device usage.
> 
> v8 which will indeed integrate subindex addition will be delivered this
> week.
> 
> Best Regards
> 
> Eric

Thanks a lot for the information, Eric!

Thanks,
Feng

> >
> > Thanks,
> > Feng
> >
> >
> >> v2 -> v3:
> >> - kvm_fwd_irq_action enum replaced by a bool (KVM_VFIO_IRQ_CLEANUP
> does
> >> not
> >>   exist anymore)
> >> - a new struct local to vfio.c was introduced to wrap kvm_fw_irq and make it
> >>   linkable: kvm_vfio_fwd_irq_node
> >> - kvm_fwd_irq now is self-contained (includes struct vfio_device *)
> >> - a single list of kvm_vfio_fwd_irq_irq_node is used instead of having
> >>   a list of devices and a list of forward irq per device. Having 2 lists
> >>   brought extra complexity.
> >> - the VFIO device ref counter is incremented each time a new IRQ is
> forwarded.
> >>   It is not attempted anymore to hold a single reference whatever the
> number
> >>   of forwarded IRQs.
> >> - subindex added on top of index to be closer to VFIO API
> >> - platform device check moved in the arm specific implementation
> >> - enable the KVM-VFIO device for arm64
> >> - forwarded state change only can happen while the VFIO IRQ handler is not
> >>   set; in other words, when the VFIO IRQ signaling is not set.
> >>
> >> v1 -> v2:
> >> - forward control is moved from architecture specific file into generic
> >>   vfio.c module.
> >>   only kvm_arch_set_fwd_state remains architecture specific
> >> - integrate Kim's patch which enables KVM-VFIO for ARM
> >> - fix vgic state bypass in vgic_queue_hwirq
> >> - struct kvm_arch_forwarded_irq moved from
> >> arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
> >>   to include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
> >>   also irq_index renamed into index and guest_irq renamed into gsi
> >> - ASSIGN/DEASSIGN renamed into FORWARD/UNFORWARD
> >> - vfio_external_get_base_device renamed into vfio_external_base_device
> >> - vfio_external_get_type removed
> >> - kvm_vfio_external_get_base_device renamed into
> >> kvm_vfio_external_base_device
> >> - __KVM_HAVE_ARCH_KVM_VFIO renamed into
> >> __KVM_HAVE_ARCH_KVM_VFIO_FORWARD
> >>
> >>
> >> Eric Auger (7):
> >>   KVM: arm64: Enable the KVM-VFIO device
> >>   VFIO: platform: forwarded state tested when selecting IRQ handler
> >>   KVM: kvm-vfio: User API for IRQ forwarding
> >>   VFIO: External user API device helpers
> >>   KVM: kvm-vfio: wrapper to VFIO external API device helpers
> >>   KVM: kvm-vfio: generic forwarding control
> >>   KVM: arm: kvm-vfio: forwarding control
> >>
> >> Kim Phillips (1):
> >>   KVM: arm: Enable the KVM-VFIO device
> >>
> >>  Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vfio.txt |  34 +++-
> >>  arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h            |   7 +
> >>  arch/arm/kvm/Kconfig                       |   1 +
> >>  arch/arm/kvm/Makefile                      |   4 +-
> >>  arch/arm/kvm/kvm_vfio_arm.c                | 101 ++++++++++
> >>  arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig                     |   1 +
> >>  arch/arm64/kvm/Makefile                    |   2 +-
> >>  drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_platform_irq.c  |   7 +-
> >>  drivers/vfio/vfio.c                        |  24 +++
> >>  include/linux/kvm_host.h                   |  28 +++
> >>  include/linux/vfio.h                       |   3 +
> >>  include/uapi/linux/kvm.h                   |  10 +
> >>  virt/kvm/vfio.c                            | 294
> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >>  13 files changed, 503 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> >>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/kvm/kvm_vfio_arm.c
> >>
> >> --
> >> 1.9.1
> >

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