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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 22:27:54 +0530
From: Anup Patel <apatel@...tanamicro.com>
To: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>, Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>
Cc: Atish Patra <atishp@...shpatra.org>, Andrew Jones <ajones@...tanamicro.com>,
Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org, kvm-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] Accelerate KVM RISC-V when running as a guest
On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 1:17 AM Anup Patel <apatel@...tanamicro.com> wrote:
>
> The KVM RISC-V hypervisor might be running as a guest under some other
> host hypervisor in which case the complete H-extension functionality will
> be trap-n-emulated by the host hypervisor. In this case, the KVM RISC-V
> performance can be accelerated using the SBI nested acceleration (NACL)
> extension if the host hypervisor provides it.
>
> These series extends KVM RISC-V to use SBI NACL extension whenever
> underlying SBI implementation (aka host hypervisor) provides it.
>
> These patches can also be found in the riscv_sbi_nested_v2 branch at:
> https://github.com/avpatel/linux.git
>
> To test these patches, run KVM RISC-V as Guest under latest Xvisor
> found at: https://github.com/xvisor/xvisor.git
>
> For the steps to test on Xvisor, refer the Xvisor documentation
> <xvisor_source>/docs/riscv/riscv64-qemu.txt with two small changes:
>
> 1) In step#11, make sure compressed kvm.ko, guest kernel image, and
> kvmtool are present in the rootfs.img
> 2) In step#14, make sure AIA is available to Xvisor by using
> "virt,aia=aplic-imsic" as the QEMU machine name.
>
> Changes since v1:
> - Dropped nacl_shmem_fast() macro from PATCH8
> - Added comments in PATCH8 about which back-to-back ncsr_xyz()
> macros are sub-optimal
> - Moved nacl_scratch_xyz() macros to PATCH8
>
> Anup Patel (13):
> RISC-V: KVM: Order the object files alphabetically
> RISC-V: KVM: Save/restore HSTATUS in C source
> RISC-V: KVM: Save/restore SCOUNTEREN in C source
> RISC-V: KVM: Break down the __kvm_riscv_switch_to() into macros
> RISC-V: KVM: Replace aia_set_hvictl() with aia_hvictl_value()
> RISC-V: KVM: Don't setup SGEI for zero guest external interrupts
> RISC-V: Add defines for the SBI nested acceleration extension
> RISC-V: KVM: Add common nested acceleration support
> RISC-V: KVM: Use nacl_csr_xyz() for accessing H-extension CSRs
> RISC-V: KVM: Use nacl_csr_xyz() for accessing AIA CSRs
> RISC-V: KVM: Use SBI sync SRET call when available
> RISC-V: KVM: Save trap CSRs in kvm_riscv_vcpu_enter_exit()
> RISC-V: KVM: Use NACL HFENCEs for KVM request based HFENCEs
Queued this series for Linux-6.13
Regards,
Anup
>
> arch/riscv/include/asm/kvm_nacl.h | 245 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/riscv/include/asm/sbi.h | 120 +++++++++++++++
> arch/riscv/kvm/Makefile | 27 ++--
> arch/riscv/kvm/aia.c | 114 +++++++++-----
> arch/riscv/kvm/main.c | 51 ++++++-
> arch/riscv/kvm/mmu.c | 4 +-
> arch/riscv/kvm/nacl.c | 152 ++++++++++++++++++
> arch/riscv/kvm/tlb.c | 57 ++++---
> arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu.c | 184 ++++++++++++++++------
> arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_switch.S | 137 +++++++++++------
> arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_timer.c | 28 ++--
> 11 files changed, 941 insertions(+), 178 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 arch/riscv/include/asm/kvm_nacl.h
> create mode 100644 arch/riscv/kvm/nacl.c
>
> --
> 2.43.0
>
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