linux-kernel - [PATCH v7 20/22] KVM: arm64: Add SDEI document

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Date:   Fri, 27 May 2022 16:02:51 +0800
From:   Gavin Shan <gshan@...hat.com>
To:     kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu
Cc:     maz@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, eauger@...hat.com,
        oupton@...gle.com, Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com,
        pbonzini@...hat.com, vkuznets@...hat.com, will@...nel.org,
        james.morse@....com, mark.rutland@....com,
        shannon.zhaosl@...il.com, shijie@...eremail.onmicrosoft.com,
        shan.gavin@...il.com
Subject: [PATCH v7 20/22] KVM: arm64: Add SDEI document

This adds SDEI document, to explain what has been missed from the
specification and the pesudo firmware registers used for migration.

Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@...hat.com>
---
 Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/sdei.rst | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 64 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/sdei.rst

diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/sdei.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/sdei.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ba1539978b2c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/sdei.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+=====================================
+SDEI Virtualization Support for ARM64
+=====================================
+
+ARM specification DEN0054/C defines Software Delegated Exception Interface
+(SDEI). It provides a mechanism for registering and servicing system events
+from system firmware. The interface is offered by a higher exception level
+to a lower exception level, in other words by a secure platform firmware
+to hypervisor or hypervisor to OS or both.
+
+https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0054/c
+
+KVM/arm64 implementation follows the specification to support the defined
+hypercalls so that the system events can be registered and serviced from
+KVM hypervisor to the guest OS. However, some of specified functionalities
+are missed by the implementation.
+
+  * The shared event is not supported. It means all supported events are
+    private. They need to be registered, enabled, disabled, unregistered
+    and reset from one particular PE (vCPU).
+
+  * The critical priority is not supported. It means all supported events
+    have normal priority. So there is no preemption between two events
+    in the critical and normal priorities. One event can be running at
+    once on one particular PE (vCPU).
+
+  * Interrupt binding event is not supported. It means all supported
+    events triggered by software.
+
+  * Relative mode for the event handler's address is not supported.
+    The event handler address is always an absolute address.
+
+The event handlers, states and context need to be migrated. Several pseudo
+firmware registers are added for this.
+
+  * KVM_REG_ARM_SDEI_EVENT_HANDLER_0
+    KVM_REG_ARM_SDEI_EVENT_HANDLER_1
+    KVM_REG_ARM_SDEI_EVENT_HANDLER_2
+    KVM_REG_ARM_SDEI_EVENT_HANDLER_3
+
+    The event handler's address and argument for events, whose number
+    are 0, 1, 2 and 3 respectively. Currently, there are only two
+    supported events, which are Software Signaled Event (0) and Async
+    PF Event (1). So the first two registers are only used. zeroes are
+    returned on reading KVM_REG_ARM_SDEI_EVENT_HANDLER_{2, 3}, and the
+    values written to them are ignored.
+
+  * KVM_REG_ARM_SDEI_EVENT_REGISTERED
+    KVM_REG_ARM_SDEI_EVENT_ENABLED
+    KVM_REG_ARM_SDEI_EVENT_RUNNING
+    KVM_REG_ARM_SDEI_EVENT_PENDING
+
+    They are mapped to the registered, enabled, running and pending
+    bitmap respectively.
+
+  * KVM_REG_ARM_SDEI_EVENT_CONTEXT
+
+    The interrupted context.
+
+  * KVM_REG_ARM_SDEI_PE_STATE
+
+    Relect the SDEI masked state on the PE (vCPU).
-- 
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