linux-kernel - [RFCv2 0/1] x86: allow to notify host about guest entering s2idle

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Message-Id: <20230209135646.3179418-1-jaz@semihalf.com>
Date:   Thu,  9 Feb 2023 13:56:45 +0000
From:   Grzegorz Jaszczyk <jaz@...ihalf.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rafael@...nel.org
Cc:     dmy@...ihalf.com, tn@...ihalf.com, dbehr@...gle.com,
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        dtor@...gle.com, Grzegorz Jaszczyk <jaz@...ihalf.com>
Subject: [RFCv2 0/1] x86: allow to notify host about guest entering s2idle

According to the mailing list discussion [1] about the preferred approach
for notifying hypervisor/VMM about guest entering s2idle state this RFC was
implemented.

Instead of original hypercall based approach, which involves KVM change [2]
and makes it hypervisor specific, implement different mechanism, which
takes advantage of MMIO/PIO trapping and makes it hypervisor independent.

For the RFCv1 [3]:
  Patch #1 extends S2Idle ops by new notify handler which will be invoked as a
  very last command before system actually enters S2Idle states. It also allows
  to register and use driver specific notification hook which is used in
  patch #2.

  Patch #2 introduces new driver for virtual PMC, which registers
  acpi_s2idle_dev_ops's notify handler. Its implementation is based on an
  ACPI _DSM evaluation, which in turn can perform MMIO access and allow to
  trap and therefore notify the VMM about guest entering S2Idle state.

For the RFCv2: the patch #1 was dropped as in the meantime Mario Limonciello
introduced a very similar patch [4] which uses s/notify/check and invokes the
callback a bit earlier just before s2idle_entry. Mentioned patch has already
been merged.

This patchset is marked as RFC since patch #2 implements driver for non
existing device "HYPE0001", which ACPI ID was not registered yet.
Furthermore the required registration process [5] will not be started
before getting positive feedback about this patchset.

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-pm/patch/20220609110337.1238762-2-jaz@semihalf.com/
[2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-pm/patch/20220609110337.1238762-3-jaz@semihalf.com/
[3] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-pm/cover/20220707125329.378277-1-jaz@semihalf.com/
[4] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-pm/patch/20220829162953.5947-2-mario.limonciello@amd.com
[5] https://uefi.org/PNP_ACPI_Registry

Grzegorz Jaszczyk (1):
  platform/x86: Add virtual PMC driver used for S2Idle

 drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig    |  7 ++++
 drivers/platform/x86/Makefile   |  3 ++
 drivers/platform/x86/virt_pmc.c | 73 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 83 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/virt_pmc.c

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