linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 00/21] Support SDEI Virtualization

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Date:   Wed, 10 Nov 2021 15:29:17 +0100
From:   Eric Auger <eauger@...hat.com>
To:     Gavin Shan <gshan@...hat.com>, kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu
Cc:     maz@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com, pbonzini@...hat.com, will@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/21] Support SDEI Virtualization

Hi Gavin,

On 8/15/21 2:19 AM, Gavin Shan wrote:
> On 8/15/21 10:13 AM, Gavin Shan wrote:
>> This series intends to virtualize Software Delegated Exception Interface
>> (SDEI), which is defined by DEN0054A. It allows the hypervisor to deliver
>> NMI-alike event to guest and it's needed by asynchronous page fault to
>> deliver page-not-present notification from hypervisor to guest. The code
>> and the required qemu changes can be found from:
>>
>>     https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0054/latest
>>     https://github.com/gwshan/linux    ("kvm/arm64_sdei")
>>     https://github.com/gwshan/qemu     ("kvm/arm64_sdei")
>>
>> The SDEI event is identified by a 32-bits number. Bits[31:24] are used
>> to indicate the SDEI event properties while bits[23:0] are identifying
>> the unique number. The implementation takes bits[23:22] to indicate the
>> owner of the SDEI event. For example, those SDEI events owned by KVM
>> should have these two bits set to 0b01. Besides, the implementation
>> supports SDEI events owned by KVM only.
>>
>> The design is pretty straightforward and the implementation is just
>> following the SDEI specification, to support the defined SMCCC intefaces,
>> except the IRQ binding stuff. There are several data structures
>> introduced.
>> Some of the objects have to be migrated by VMM. So their definitions are
>> split up for VMM to include the corresponding states for migration.
>>
>>     struct kvm_sdei_kvm
>>        Associated with VM and used to track the KVM exposed SDEI events
>>        and those registered by guest.
>>     struct kvm_sdei_vcpu
>>        Associated with vCPU and used to track SDEI event delivery. The
>>        preempted context is saved prior to the delivery and restored
>>        after that.
>>     struct kvm_sdei_event
>>        SDEI events exposed by KVM so that guest can register and enable.
>>     struct kvm_sdei_kvm_event
>>        SDEI events that have been registered by guest.
>>     struct kvm_sdei_vcpu_event
>>        SDEI events that have been queued to specific vCPU for delivery.
>>
>> The series is organized as below:
>>
>>     PATCH[01]    Introduces template for smccc_get_argx()
>>     PATCH[02]    Introduces the data structures and infrastructure
>>     PATCH[03-14] Supports various SDEI related hypercalls
>>     PATCH[15]    Supports SDEI event notification
>>     PATCH[16-17] Introduces ioctl command for migration
>>     PATCH[18-19] Supports SDEI event injection and cancellation
>>     PATCH[20]    Exports SDEI capability
>>     PATCH[21]    Adds self-test case for SDEI virtualization
>>
> 
> [...]
> 
> I explicitly copied James Morse and Mark Rutland when posting the series,
> but something unknown went wrong. I'm including them here to avoid
> reposting the whole series.
I don't see James nor Mark included here either

Eric
> 
> Thanks,
> Gavin
> 
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