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Message-ID: <ba9511e7-a23f-f644-e310-f0bf1bce835a@huawei.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 15:03:21 +0800
From: Shenming Lu <lushenming@...wei.com>
To: Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>, Eric Auger <eric.auger@...hat.com>,
"Will Deacon" <will@...nel.org>,
<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
<kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu>, <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>,
Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
<wanghaibin.wang@...wei.com>, <yuzenghui@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] KVM: arm64: Add VLPI migration support on GICv4.1
Hi,
Sorry to bother again, I am really hoping a response for this series. :-)
Thanks,
Shenming
On 2021/2/26 16:58, Shenming Lu wrote:
> Hi Marc,
>
> Gentle ping. Does this series need any further modification? Wish you can pick it up. :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Shenming
>
> On 2021/1/27 20:13, Shenming Lu wrote:
>> Hi Marc, sorry for the late commit.
>>
>> In GICv4.1, migration has been supported except for (directly-injected)
>> VLPI. And GICv4.1 Spec explicitly gives a way to get the VLPI's pending
>> state (which was crucially missing in GICv4.0). So we make VLPI migration
>> capable on GICv4.1 in this patch set.
>>
>> In order to support VLPI migration, we need to save and restore all
>> required configuration information and pending states of VLPIs. But
>> in fact, the configuration information of VLPIs has already been saved
>> (or will be reallocated on the dst host...) in vgic(kvm) migration.
>> So we only have to migrate the pending states of VLPIs specially.
>>
>> Below is the related workflow in migration.
>>
>> On the save path:
>> In migration completion:
>> pause all vCPUs
>> |
>> call each VM state change handler:
>> pause other devices (just keep from sending interrupts, and
>> such as VFIO migration protocol has already realized it [1])
>> |
>> flush ITS tables into guest RAM
>> |
>> flush RDIST pending tables (also flush VLPI state here)
>> |
>> ...
>> On the resume path:
>> load each device's state:
>> restore ITS tables (include pending tables) from guest RAM
>> |
>> for other (PCI) devices (paused), if configured to have VLPIs,
>> establish the forwarding paths of their VLPIs (and transfer
>> the pending states from kvm's vgic to VPT here)
>>
>> We have tested this series in VFIO migration, and found some related
>> issues in QEMU [2].
>>
>> Links:
>> [1] vfio: UAPI for migration interface for device state:
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a8a24f3f6e38103b77cf399c38eb54e1219d00d6
>> [2] vfio: Some fixes and optimizations for VFIO migration:
>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/cover/1413263/
>>
>> History:
>>
>> v2 -> v3
>> - Add the vgic initialized check to ensure that the allocation and enabling
>> of the doorbells have already been done before unmapping the vPEs.
>> - Check all get_vlpi_state related conditions in save_pending_tables in one place.
>> - Nit fixes.
>>
>> v1 -> v2:
>> - Get the VLPI state from the KVM side.
>> - Nit fixes.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Shenming
>>
>>
>> Shenming Lu (3):
>> KVM: arm64: GICv4.1: Add function to get VLPI state
>> KVM: arm64: GICv4.1: Try to save hw pending state in
>> save_pending_tables
>> KVM: arm64: GICv4.1: Give a chance to save VLPI's pending state
>>
>> Zenghui Yu (1):
>> KVM: arm64: GICv4.1: Restore VLPI's pending state to physical side
>>
>> .../virt/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-its.rst | 2 +-
>> arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-its.c | 6 +-
>> arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v3.c | 61 +++++++++++++++++--
>> arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v4.c | 33 ++++++++++
>> arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic.h | 1 +
>> 5 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>>
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