2014-11-17 11:26:12

by Wu, Feng

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Subject: RE: [RFC v2 0/9] KVM-VFIO IRQ forward control



> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alex Williamson
> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2014 1:10 PM
> To: Christoffer Dall
> Cc: Eric Auger; [email protected]; [email protected];
> [email protected]; [email protected];
> [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
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> Subject: Re: [RFC v2 0/9] KVM-VFIO IRQ forward control
>
> On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 05:10 +0200, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 03:05:41PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2014-09-01 at 14:52 +0200, Eric Auger wrote:
> > > > This RFC proposes an integration of "ARM: Forwarding physical
> > > > interrupts to a guest VM" (http://lwn.net/Articles/603514/) in
> > > > KVM.
> > > >
> > > > It enables to transform a VFIO platform driver IRQ into a forwarded
> > > > IRQ. The direct benefit is that, for a level sensitive IRQ, a VM
> > > > switch can be avoided on guest virtual IRQ completion. Before this
> > > > patch, a maintenance IRQ was triggered on the virtual IRQ completion.
> > > >
> > > > When the IRQ is forwarded, the VFIO platform driver does not need to
> > > > disable the IRQ anymore. Indeed when returning from the IRQ handler
> > > > the IRQ is not deactivated. Only its priority is lowered. This means
> > > > the same IRQ cannot hit before the guest completes the virtual IRQ
> > > > and the GIC automatically deactivates the corresponding physical IRQ.
> > > >
> > > > Besides, the injection still is based on irqfd triggering. The only
> > > > impact on irqfd process is resamplefd is not called anymore on
> > > > virtual IRQ completion since this latter becomes "transparent".
> > > >
> > > > The current integration is based on an extension of the KVM-VFIO
> > > > device, previously used by KVM to interact with VFIO groups. The
> > > > patch serie now enables KVM to directly interact with a VFIO
> > > > platform device. The VFIO external API was extended for that purpose.
> > > >
> > > > Th KVM-VFIO device can get/put the vfio platform device, check its
> > > > integrity and type, get the IRQ number associated to an IRQ index.
> > > >
> > > > The IRQ forward programming is architecture specific (virtual interrupt
> > > > controller programming basically). However the whole infrastructure is
> > > > kept generic.
> > > >
> > > > from a user point of view, the functionality is provided through new
> > > > KVM-VFIO device commands,
> KVM_DEV_VFIO_DEVICE_(UN)FORWARD_IRQ
> > > > and the capability can be checked with KVM_HAS_DEVICE_ATTR.
> > > > Assignment can only be changed when the physical IRQ is not active.
> > > > It is the responsability of the user to do this check.
> > > >
> > > > This patch serie has the following dependencies:
> > > > - "ARM: Forwarding physical interrupts to a guest VM"
> > > > (http://lwn.net/Articles/603514/) in
> > > > - [PATCH v3] irqfd for ARM
> > > > - and obviously the VFIO platform driver serie:
> > > > [RFC PATCH v6 00/20] VFIO support for platform devices on ARM
> > > > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg103247.html
> > > >
> > > > Integrated pieces can be found at
> > > > ssh://git.linaro.org/people/eric.auger/linux.git
> > > > on branch 3.17rc3_irqfd_forward_integ_v2
> > > >
> > > > This was was tested on Calxeda Midway, assigning the xgmac main IRQ.
> > > >
> > > > v1 -> v2:
> > > > - forward control is moved from architecture specific file into generic
> > > > vfio.c module.
> > > > only kvm_arch_set_fwd_state remains architecture specific
> > > > - integrate Kim's patch which enables KVM-VFIO for ARM
> > > > - fix vgic state bypass in vgic_queue_hwirq
> > > > - struct kvm_arch_forwarded_irq moved from
> arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
> > > > to include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
> > > > also irq_index renamed into index and guest_irq renamed into gsi
> > > > - ASSIGN/DEASSIGN renamed into FORWARD/UNFORWARD
> > > > - vfio_external_get_base_device renamed into vfio_external_base_device
> > > > - vfio_external_get_type removed
> > > > - kvm_vfio_external_get_base_device renamed into
> kvm_vfio_external_base_device
> > > > - __KVM_HAVE_ARCH_KVM_VFIO renamed into
> __KVM_HAVE_ARCH_KVM_VFIO_FORWARD
> > > >
> > > > Eric Auger (8):
> > > > KVM: ARM: VGIC: fix multiple injection of level sensitive forwarded
> > > > IRQ
> > > > KVM: ARM: VGIC: add forwarded irq rbtree lock
> > > > VFIO: platform: handler tests whether the IRQ is forwarded
> > > > KVM: KVM-VFIO: update user API to program forwarded IRQ
> > > > VFIO: Extend external user API
> > > > KVM: KVM-VFIO: add new VFIO external API hooks
> > > > KVM: KVM-VFIO: generic KVM_DEV_VFIO_DEVICE command and IRQ
> forwarding
> > > > control
> > > > KVM: KVM-VFIO: ARM forwarding control
> > > >
> > > > Kim Phillips (1):
> > > > ARM: KVM: Enable the KVM-VFIO device
> > > >
> > > > Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vfio.txt | 26 ++
> > > > arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 7 +
> > > > arch/arm/kvm/Kconfig | 1 +
> > > > arch/arm/kvm/Makefile | 4 +-
> > > > arch/arm/kvm/kvm_vfio_arm.c | 85 +++++
> > > > drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_platform_irq.c | 7 +-
> > > > drivers/vfio/vfio.c | 24 ++
> > > > include/kvm/arm_vgic.h | 1 +
> > > > include/linux/kvm_host.h | 27 ++
> > > > include/linux/vfio.h | 3 +
> > > > include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 9 +
> > > > virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c | 59 +++-
> > > > virt/kvm/vfio.c | 497
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> > > > 13 files changed, 733 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> > > > create mode 100644 arch/arm/kvm/kvm_vfio_arm.c
> > > >
> > >
> > > Have we ventured too far in the other direction? I suppose what I was
> > > hoping to see was something more like:
> > >
> > > case KVM_DEV_VFIO_DEVICE_FORWARD_IRQ:{
> > >
> > > /* get vfio_device */
> > >
> > > /* get mutex */
> > >
> > > /* verify device+irq isn't already forwarded */
> > >
> > > /* allocate device/forwarded irq */
> > >
> > > /* get struct device */
> > >
> > > /* callout to arch code passing struct device, gsi, ... */
> > >
> > > /* if success, add to kv, else free and error */
> > >
> > > /* mutex unlock */
> > > }
> >
> > I think that's essentially what this patch set is trying to do, but
> > there are just too many complicated intertwining cases right now that
> > makes the code hard to read.
> >
> > >
> > > Exposing the internal mutex out to arch code, as in v1, was an
> > > indication that we were pushing too much out to arch code, but including
> > > platform_device.h into virt/kvm/vfio.c tells me we're still not
> > > abstracting at the right point. Thanks,
> > >
> > I raised my eyebrows over the platform device bus thingy here as well,
> > but on the other hand, there's nothing ARM-specific about referring to
> > the platform device bus.
> >
> > I think perhaps it just has to be made more clear that the generic code
> > deals with translating the device resources in the necessary way, and
> > currently it only supports vfio-platform devices?
>
> Ok, you're probably right, looking at it again it is closer than I
> thought. At the same time, the use of platform device in
> virt/kvm/vfio.c is pointless and can easily be pushed out to the arch
> code as just another error return case. vfio.c doesn't need to be aware
> of hwirq. The rest of the code is just overly complicated, with three
> different cleanup functions and validation function bloat. Thanks,
>
> Alex


Hi Alex, Could you please tell what is the current status of this patch set.
As you mentioned in another thread, something(such as, kvm_vfio_device_get_external_user(), etc.)
in this patch set can be leveraged for VT-d Posted-interrtups.

Thanks,
Feng

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2014-11-17 13:42:57

by Eric Auger

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Subject: Re: [RFC v2 0/9] KVM-VFIO IRQ forward control

Hi Feng,

I will submit a PATCH v3 release end of this week.

Best Regards

Eric

On 11/17/2014 12:25 PM, Wu, Feng wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected]
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alex Williamson
>> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2014 1:10 PM
>> To: Christoffer Dall
>> Cc: Eric Auger; [email protected]; [email protected];
>> [email protected]; [email protected];
>> [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
>> [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
>> [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
>> [email protected]; [email protected];
>> [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [RFC v2 0/9] KVM-VFIO IRQ forward control
>>
>> On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 05:10 +0200, Christoffer Dall wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 03:05:41PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 2014-09-01 at 14:52 +0200, Eric Auger wrote:
>>>>> This RFC proposes an integration of "ARM: Forwarding physical
>>>>> interrupts to a guest VM" (http://lwn.net/Articles/603514/) in
>>>>> KVM.
>>>>>
>>>>> It enables to transform a VFIO platform driver IRQ into a forwarded
>>>>> IRQ. The direct benefit is that, for a level sensitive IRQ, a VM
>>>>> switch can be avoided on guest virtual IRQ completion. Before this
>>>>> patch, a maintenance IRQ was triggered on the virtual IRQ completion.
>>>>>
>>>>> When the IRQ is forwarded, the VFIO platform driver does not need to
>>>>> disable the IRQ anymore. Indeed when returning from the IRQ handler
>>>>> the IRQ is not deactivated. Only its priority is lowered. This means
>>>>> the same IRQ cannot hit before the guest completes the virtual IRQ
>>>>> and the GIC automatically deactivates the corresponding physical IRQ.
>>>>>
>>>>> Besides, the injection still is based on irqfd triggering. The only
>>>>> impact on irqfd process is resamplefd is not called anymore on
>>>>> virtual IRQ completion since this latter becomes "transparent".
>>>>>
>>>>> The current integration is based on an extension of the KVM-VFIO
>>>>> device, previously used by KVM to interact with VFIO groups. The
>>>>> patch serie now enables KVM to directly interact with a VFIO
>>>>> platform device. The VFIO external API was extended for that purpose.
>>>>>
>>>>> Th KVM-VFIO device can get/put the vfio platform device, check its
>>>>> integrity and type, get the IRQ number associated to an IRQ index.
>>>>>
>>>>> The IRQ forward programming is architecture specific (virtual interrupt
>>>>> controller programming basically). However the whole infrastructure is
>>>>> kept generic.
>>>>>
>>>>> from a user point of view, the functionality is provided through new
>>>>> KVM-VFIO device commands,
>> KVM_DEV_VFIO_DEVICE_(UN)FORWARD_IRQ
>>>>> and the capability can be checked with KVM_HAS_DEVICE_ATTR.
>>>>> Assignment can only be changed when the physical IRQ is not active.
>>>>> It is the responsability of the user to do this check.
>>>>>
>>>>> This patch serie has the following dependencies:
>>>>> - "ARM: Forwarding physical interrupts to a guest VM"
>>>>> (http://lwn.net/Articles/603514/) in
>>>>> - [PATCH v3] irqfd for ARM
>>>>> - and obviously the VFIO platform driver serie:
>>>>> [RFC PATCH v6 00/20] VFIO support for platform devices on ARM
>>>>> https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg103247.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Integrated pieces can be found at
>>>>> ssh://git.linaro.org/people/eric.auger/linux.git
>>>>> on branch 3.17rc3_irqfd_forward_integ_v2
>>>>>
>>>>> This was was tested on Calxeda Midway, assigning the xgmac main IRQ.
>>>>>
>>>>> v1 -> v2:
>>>>> - forward control is moved from architecture specific file into generic
>>>>> vfio.c module.
>>>>> only kvm_arch_set_fwd_state remains architecture specific
>>>>> - integrate Kim's patch which enables KVM-VFIO for ARM
>>>>> - fix vgic state bypass in vgic_queue_hwirq
>>>>> - struct kvm_arch_forwarded_irq moved from
>> arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
>>>>> to include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
>>>>> also irq_index renamed into index and guest_irq renamed into gsi
>>>>> - ASSIGN/DEASSIGN renamed into FORWARD/UNFORWARD
>>>>> - vfio_external_get_base_device renamed into vfio_external_base_device
>>>>> - vfio_external_get_type removed
>>>>> - kvm_vfio_external_get_base_device renamed into
>> kvm_vfio_external_base_device
>>>>> - __KVM_HAVE_ARCH_KVM_VFIO renamed into
>> __KVM_HAVE_ARCH_KVM_VFIO_FORWARD
>>>>>
>>>>> Eric Auger (8):
>>>>> KVM: ARM: VGIC: fix multiple injection of level sensitive forwarded
>>>>> IRQ
>>>>> KVM: ARM: VGIC: add forwarded irq rbtree lock
>>>>> VFIO: platform: handler tests whether the IRQ is forwarded
>>>>> KVM: KVM-VFIO: update user API to program forwarded IRQ
>>>>> VFIO: Extend external user API
>>>>> KVM: KVM-VFIO: add new VFIO external API hooks
>>>>> KVM: KVM-VFIO: generic KVM_DEV_VFIO_DEVICE command and IRQ
>> forwarding
>>>>> control
>>>>> KVM: KVM-VFIO: ARM forwarding control
>>>>>
>>>>> Kim Phillips (1):
>>>>> ARM: KVM: Enable the KVM-VFIO device
>>>>>
>>>>> Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vfio.txt | 26 ++
>>>>> arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 7 +
>>>>> arch/arm/kvm/Kconfig | 1 +
>>>>> arch/arm/kvm/Makefile | 4 +-
>>>>> arch/arm/kvm/kvm_vfio_arm.c | 85 +++++
>>>>> drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_platform_irq.c | 7 +-
>>>>> drivers/vfio/vfio.c | 24 ++
>>>>> include/kvm/arm_vgic.h | 1 +
>>>>> include/linux/kvm_host.h | 27 ++
>>>>> include/linux/vfio.h | 3 +
>>>>> include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 9 +
>>>>> virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c | 59 +++-
>>>>> virt/kvm/vfio.c | 497
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>>>> 13 files changed, 733 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>>>>> create mode 100644 arch/arm/kvm/kvm_vfio_arm.c
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Have we ventured too far in the other direction? I suppose what I was
>>>> hoping to see was something more like:
>>>>
>>>> case KVM_DEV_VFIO_DEVICE_FORWARD_IRQ:{
>>>>
>>>> /* get vfio_device */
>>>>
>>>> /* get mutex */
>>>>
>>>> /* verify device+irq isn't already forwarded */
>>>>
>>>> /* allocate device/forwarded irq */
>>>>
>>>> /* get struct device */
>>>>
>>>> /* callout to arch code passing struct device, gsi, ... */
>>>>
>>>> /* if success, add to kv, else free and error */
>>>>
>>>> /* mutex unlock */
>>>> }
>>>
>>> I think that's essentially what this patch set is trying to do, but
>>> there are just too many complicated intertwining cases right now that
>>> makes the code hard to read.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Exposing the internal mutex out to arch code, as in v1, was an
>>>> indication that we were pushing too much out to arch code, but including
>>>> platform_device.h into virt/kvm/vfio.c tells me we're still not
>>>> abstracting at the right point. Thanks,
>>>>
>>> I raised my eyebrows over the platform device bus thingy here as well,
>>> but on the other hand, there's nothing ARM-specific about referring to
>>> the platform device bus.
>>>
>>> I think perhaps it just has to be made more clear that the generic code
>>> deals with translating the device resources in the necessary way, and
>>> currently it only supports vfio-platform devices?
>>
>> Ok, you're probably right, looking at it again it is closer than I
>> thought. At the same time, the use of platform device in
>> virt/kvm/vfio.c is pointless and can easily be pushed out to the arch
>> code as just another error return case. vfio.c doesn't need to be aware
>> of hwirq. The rest of the code is just overly complicated, with three
>> different cleanup functions and validation function bloat. Thanks,
>>
>> Alex
>
>
> Hi Alex, Could you please tell what is the current status of this patch set.
> As you mentioned in another thread, something(such as, kvm_vfio_device_get_external_user(), etc.)
> in this patch set can be leveraged for VT-d Posted-interrtups.
>
> Thanks,
> Feng
>
>>
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2014-11-17 13:53:29

by Wu, Feng

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Subject: RE: [RFC v2 0/9] KVM-VFIO IRQ forward control



> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Eric Auger
> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2014 9:42 PM
> To: Wu, Feng; Alex Williamson; Christoffer Dall
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected];
> [email protected]; [email protected];
> [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
> [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
> [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
> [email protected]; [email protected];
> [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [RFC v2 0/9] KVM-VFIO IRQ forward control
>
> Hi Feng,
>
> I will submit a PATCH v3 release end of this week.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Eric

Thanks for the update, Eric!

Thanks,
Feng

>
> On 11/17/2014 12:25 PM, Wu, Feng wrote:
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: [email protected]
> >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alex Williamson
> >> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2014 1:10 PM
> >> To: Christoffer Dall
> >> Cc: Eric Auger; [email protected]; [email protected];
> >> [email protected]; [email protected];
> >> [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
> >> [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
> >> [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
> >> [email protected]; [email protected];
> >> [email protected]
> >> Subject: Re: [RFC v2 0/9] KVM-VFIO IRQ forward control
> >>
> >> On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 05:10 +0200, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 03:05:41PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> >>>> On Mon, 2014-09-01 at 14:52 +0200, Eric Auger wrote:
> >>>>> This RFC proposes an integration of "ARM: Forwarding physical
> >>>>> interrupts to a guest VM" (http://lwn.net/Articles/603514/) in
> >>>>> KVM.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It enables to transform a VFIO platform driver IRQ into a forwarded
> >>>>> IRQ. The direct benefit is that, for a level sensitive IRQ, a VM
> >>>>> switch can be avoided on guest virtual IRQ completion. Before this
> >>>>> patch, a maintenance IRQ was triggered on the virtual IRQ completion.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> When the IRQ is forwarded, the VFIO platform driver does not need to
> >>>>> disable the IRQ anymore. Indeed when returning from the IRQ handler
> >>>>> the IRQ is not deactivated. Only its priority is lowered. This means
> >>>>> the same IRQ cannot hit before the guest completes the virtual IRQ
> >>>>> and the GIC automatically deactivates the corresponding physical IRQ.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Besides, the injection still is based on irqfd triggering. The only
> >>>>> impact on irqfd process is resamplefd is not called anymore on
> >>>>> virtual IRQ completion since this latter becomes "transparent".
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The current integration is based on an extension of the KVM-VFIO
> >>>>> device, previously used by KVM to interact with VFIO groups. The
> >>>>> patch serie now enables KVM to directly interact with a VFIO
> >>>>> platform device. The VFIO external API was extended for that purpose.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Th KVM-VFIO device can get/put the vfio platform device, check its
> >>>>> integrity and type, get the IRQ number associated to an IRQ index.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The IRQ forward programming is architecture specific (virtual interrupt
> >>>>> controller programming basically). However the whole infrastructure is
> >>>>> kept generic.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> from a user point of view, the functionality is provided through new
> >>>>> KVM-VFIO device commands,
> >> KVM_DEV_VFIO_DEVICE_(UN)FORWARD_IRQ
> >>>>> and the capability can be checked with KVM_HAS_DEVICE_ATTR.
> >>>>> Assignment can only be changed when the physical IRQ is not active.
> >>>>> It is the responsability of the user to do this check.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This patch serie has the following dependencies:
> >>>>> - "ARM: Forwarding physical interrupts to a guest VM"
> >>>>> (http://lwn.net/Articles/603514/) in
> >>>>> - [PATCH v3] irqfd for ARM
> >>>>> - and obviously the VFIO platform driver serie:
> >>>>> [RFC PATCH v6 00/20] VFIO support for platform devices on ARM
> >>>>>
> https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg103247.html
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Integrated pieces can be found at
> >>>>> ssh://git.linaro.org/people/eric.auger/linux.git
> >>>>> on branch 3.17rc3_irqfd_forward_integ_v2
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This was was tested on Calxeda Midway, assigning the xgmac main IRQ.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> v1 -> v2:
> >>>>> - forward control is moved from architecture specific file into generic
> >>>>> vfio.c module.
> >>>>> only kvm_arch_set_fwd_state remains architecture specific
> >>>>> - integrate Kim's patch which enables KVM-VFIO for ARM
> >>>>> - fix vgic state bypass in vgic_queue_hwirq
> >>>>> - struct kvm_arch_forwarded_irq moved from
> >> arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
> >>>>> to include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
> >>>>> also irq_index renamed into index and guest_irq renamed into gsi
> >>>>> - ASSIGN/DEASSIGN renamed into FORWARD/UNFORWARD
> >>>>> - vfio_external_get_base_device renamed into
> vfio_external_base_device
> >>>>> - vfio_external_get_type removed
> >>>>> - kvm_vfio_external_get_base_device renamed into
> >> kvm_vfio_external_base_device
> >>>>> - __KVM_HAVE_ARCH_KVM_VFIO renamed into
> >> __KVM_HAVE_ARCH_KVM_VFIO_FORWARD
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Eric Auger (8):
> >>>>> KVM: ARM: VGIC: fix multiple injection of level sensitive forwarded
> >>>>> IRQ
> >>>>> KVM: ARM: VGIC: add forwarded irq rbtree lock
> >>>>> VFIO: platform: handler tests whether the IRQ is forwarded
> >>>>> KVM: KVM-VFIO: update user API to program forwarded IRQ
> >>>>> VFIO: Extend external user API
> >>>>> KVM: KVM-VFIO: add new VFIO external API hooks
> >>>>> KVM: KVM-VFIO: generic KVM_DEV_VFIO_DEVICE command and IRQ
> >> forwarding
> >>>>> control
> >>>>> KVM: KVM-VFIO: ARM forwarding control
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Kim Phillips (1):
> >>>>> ARM: KVM: Enable the KVM-VFIO device
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vfio.txt | 26 ++
> >>>>> arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 7 +
> >>>>> arch/arm/kvm/Kconfig | 1 +
> >>>>> arch/arm/kvm/Makefile | 4 +-
> >>>>> arch/arm/kvm/kvm_vfio_arm.c | 85 +++++
> >>>>> drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_platform_irq.c | 7 +-
> >>>>> drivers/vfio/vfio.c | 24 ++
> >>>>> include/kvm/arm_vgic.h | 1 +
> >>>>> include/linux/kvm_host.h | 27 ++
> >>>>> include/linux/vfio.h | 3 +
> >>>>> include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 9 +
> >>>>> virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c | 59 +++-
> >>>>> virt/kvm/vfio.c | 497
> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >>>>> 13 files changed, 733 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> >>>>> create mode 100644 arch/arm/kvm/kvm_vfio_arm.c
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Have we ventured too far in the other direction? I suppose what I was
> >>>> hoping to see was something more like:
> >>>>
> >>>> case KVM_DEV_VFIO_DEVICE_FORWARD_IRQ:{
> >>>>
> >>>> /* get vfio_device */
> >>>>
> >>>> /* get mutex */
> >>>>
> >>>> /* verify device+irq isn't already forwarded */
> >>>>
> >>>> /* allocate device/forwarded irq */
> >>>>
> >>>> /* get struct device */
> >>>>
> >>>> /* callout to arch code passing struct device, gsi, ... */
> >>>>
> >>>> /* if success, add to kv, else free and error */
> >>>>
> >>>> /* mutex unlock */
> >>>> }
> >>>
> >>> I think that's essentially what this patch set is trying to do, but
> >>> there are just too many complicated intertwining cases right now that
> >>> makes the code hard to read.
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Exposing the internal mutex out to arch code, as in v1, was an
> >>>> indication that we were pushing too much out to arch code, but including
> >>>> platform_device.h into virt/kvm/vfio.c tells me we're still not
> >>>> abstracting at the right point. Thanks,
> >>>>
> >>> I raised my eyebrows over the platform device bus thingy here as well,
> >>> but on the other hand, there's nothing ARM-specific about referring to
> >>> the platform device bus.
> >>>
> >>> I think perhaps it just has to be made more clear that the generic code
> >>> deals with translating the device resources in the necessary way, and
> >>> currently it only supports vfio-platform devices?
> >>
> >> Ok, you're probably right, looking at it again it is closer than I
> >> thought. At the same time, the use of platform device in
> >> virt/kvm/vfio.c is pointless and can easily be pushed out to the arch
> >> code as just another error return case. vfio.c doesn't need to be aware
> >> of hwirq. The rest of the code is just overly complicated, with three
> >> different cleanup functions and validation function bloat. Thanks,
> >>
> >> Alex
> >
> >
> > Hi Alex, Could you please tell what is the current status of this patch set.
> > As you mentioned in another thread, something(such as,
> kvm_vfio_device_get_external_user(), etc.)
> > in this patch set can be leveraged for VT-d Posted-interrtups.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Feng
> >
> >>
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