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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1603241215530.18380@kaball.uk.xensource.com>
Date:	Thu, 24 Mar 2016 12:21:38 +0000
From:	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>
To:	Shannon Zhao <zhaoshenglong@...wei.com>
CC:	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	<ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>, <stefano.stabellini@...rix.com>,
	<david.vrabel@...rix.com>, <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	<will.deacon@....com>, <mark.rutland@....com>,
	<julien.grall@....com>, <xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>,
	<devicetree@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <ian.campbell@...rix.com>,
	<shannon.zhao@...aro.org>, <peter.huangpeng@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/17] Add ACPI support for Xen Dom0 on ARM64

On Thu, 17 Mar 2016, Shannon Zhao wrote:
> From: Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao@...aro.org>
> 
> This patch set adds ACPI support for Xen Dom0 on ARM64. The relevant Xen
> ACPI on ARM64 design document could be found from [1].
> 
> This patch set adds a new FDT node "uefi" under /hypervisor to pass UEFI
> information. Introduce a bus notifier of AMBA and Platform bus to map
> the new added device's MMIO space. Make Xen domain use
> xlated_setup_gnttab_pages to setup grant table and a new hypercall to
> get event-channel irq.
> 
> Regarding the initialization flow of Linux kernel, it needs to move
> xen_early_init() before efi_init(). Then xen_early_init() will check
> whether it runs on Xen through the /hypervisor node and efi_init() will
> call a new function fdt_find_xen_uefi_params(), to parse those
> xen,uefi-* parameters just like the existing efi_get_fdt_params().
> 
> And in arm64_enable_runtime_services() it will check whether it runs on
> Xen and call another new function xen_efi_runtime_setup() to setup
> runtime service instead of efi_native_runtime_setup(). The
> xen_efi_runtime_setup() will assign the runtime function pointers with
> the functions of driver/xen/efi.c.
> 
> And since we pass a /hypervisor node and a /chosen node to Dom0, it
> needs to check whether the DTS only contains a /hypervisor node and a
> /chosen node in acpi_boot_table_init().
> 
> Patches are tested on FVP base model.

I have no further comments on this series. Please address the minor
point by Rafael, and resubmit.


> Thanks,
> Shannon
> 
> [1] http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-11/msg00488.html
> 
> Changes since v5:
> * rebase on linux master
> * use acpi_dev_resource_memory to parse the device memory info(patch 1)
> * sync with Xen (patch 9)
> 
> Changes since v4:
> * rebase on linux master
> * move the check acpi_device_should_be_hidden into
>   acpi_bus_type_and_status (patch 1)
> * use existing function fdt_subnode_offset (patch 16)
> 
> Changes since v3:
> * rebase on linux master
> * print a warning when there is no SPCR table
> * rephase the commit message of PATCH 3
> * rephase the words of PATCH 13
> * use strcmp and factor the function in PATCH 16
> * Add several ACKs and RBs, thanks a lot
> 
> 
> Changes since v2:
> * Use 0 to check if it should ignore the UART
> * Fix the use of page_to_xen_pfn
> * Factor ACPI and DT parts in xen_guest_init
> * Check "uefi" node by full path
> * Fix the statement of Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/xen.txt
> 
> Changes since v1:
> * Rebase on linux mainline and wallclock patch from Stefano
> * Refactor AMBA and platform device MMIO map to one file
> * Use EFI_PARAVIRT to check if it supports XEN EFI
> * Refactor Xen EFI codes
> * Address other comments
> 
> Shannon Zhao (17):
>   Xen: ACPI: Hide UART used by Xen
>   xen/grant-table: Move xlated_setup_gnttab_pages to common place
>   Xen: xlate: Use page_to_xen_pfn instead of page_to_pfn
>   arm/xen: Use xen_xlate_map_ballooned_pages to setup grant table
>   xen: memory : Add new XENMAPSPACE type XENMAPSPACE_dev_mmio
>   Xen: ARM: Add support for mapping platform device mmio
>   Xen: ARM: Add support for mapping AMBA device mmio
>   Xen: public/hvm: sync changes of HVM_PARAM_CALLBACK_VIA ABI from Xen
>   xen/hvm/params: Add a new delivery type for event-channel in
>     HVM_PARAM_CALLBACK_IRQ
>   arm/xen: Get event-channel irq through HVM_PARAM when booting with
>     ACPI
>   ARM: XEN: Move xen_early_init() before efi_init()
>   ARM64: ACPI: Check if it runs on Xen to enable or disable ACPI
>   ARM: Xen: Document UEFI support on Xen ARM virtual platforms
>   XEN: EFI: Move x86 specific codes to architecture directory
>   ARM64: XEN: Add a function to initialize Xen specific UEFI runtime
>     services
>   FDT: Add a helper to get the subnode by given name
>   Xen: EFI: Parse DT parameters for Xen specific UEFI
> 
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/xen.txt |  33 +++++
>  arch/arm/include/asm/xen/xen-ops.h            |   6 +
>  arch/arm/xen/Makefile                         |   1 +
>  arch/arm/xen/efi.c                            |  40 ++++++
>  arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c                      | 109 +++++++++++----
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/xen/xen-ops.h          |   6 +
>  arch/arm64/kernel/acpi.c                      |  12 +-
>  arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c                     |   2 +-
>  arch/arm64/xen/Makefile                       |   1 +
>  arch/x86/xen/efi.c                            | 112 ++++++++++++++++
>  arch/x86/xen/grant-table.c                    |  57 +-------
>  drivers/acpi/scan.c                           |  63 +++++++++
>  drivers/firmware/efi/arm-runtime.c            |  17 ++-
>  drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c                    |  45 ++++++-
>  drivers/of/fdt.c                              |  13 ++
>  drivers/xen/Kconfig                           |   2 +-
>  drivers/xen/Makefile                          |   1 +
>  drivers/xen/arm-device.c                      | 184 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/xen/efi.c                             | 174 +++++-------------------
>  drivers/xen/xlate_mmu.c                       |  67 ++++++++++
>  include/linux/of_fdt.h                        |   2 +
>  include/xen/interface/hvm/params.h            |  40 +++++-
>  include/xen/interface/memory.h                |   1 +
>  include/xen/xen-ops.h                         |  32 +++--
>  24 files changed, 773 insertions(+), 247 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/include/asm/xen/xen-ops.h
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/xen/efi.c
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/xen/xen-ops.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/xen/arm-device.c
> 
> -- 
> 2.0.4
> 
> 

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