Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756769Ab3CDKGp (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Mar 2013 05:06:45 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:50589 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755016Ab3CDKGn (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Mar 2013 05:06:43 -0500 Message-ID: <513471F1.5020702@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:05:37 +0100 From: Paolo Bonzini User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130110 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gleb Natapov CC: Hu Tao , kvm list , qemu-devel , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "Daniel P. Berrange" , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Jan Kiszka , Blue Swirl , Eric Blake , Andrew Jones , Marcelo Tosatti , Sasha Levin , Luiz Capitulino , Anthony Liguori , Markus Armbruster , Stefan Hajnoczi , Juan Quintela , Orit Wasserman , Kevin Wolf , Wen Congyang , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Alexander Graf , Alex Williamson , Peter Maydell Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 0/8] pv event interface between host and guest References: <20130303091738.GB23616@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20130303091738.GB23616@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3738 Lines: 92 Il 03/03/2013 10:17, Gleb Natapov ha scritto: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 08:13:10PM +0800, Hu Tao wrote: >> This series implements a new interface, kvm pv event, to notify host when >> some events happen in guest. Right now there is one supported event: guest >> panic. >> > What other event do you have in mind? Is interface generic enough to > accommodate future, yet unknown, events. It allows to pass only one > integer specifying even type, what if additional info is needed? My be > stop pretending that device is generic and make it do once thing but do > it well? For generic even passing interface (whatever it may be needed > for) much more powerful virtio should be used. > > On implementation itself I do not understand why is this kvm specific. > The only thing that makes it so is that you hook device initialization > into guest kvm initialization code, but this is obviously incorrect. > What stops QEMU tcg or Xen from reusing the same device for the same > purpose except the artificial limitation in a guest. Agreed. > Reading data from a random ioports is not how you discover platform > devices in 21 century (and the data you read from unassigned port is not > guarantied to be zero, it may depend on QEMU version), you use ACPI for > that and Marcelo already pointed that to you. Having little knowledge of > ACPI (we all do) is not a good reason to not doing it. We probably need > to reserve QEMU specific ACPI Plug and Play hardware ID to define our own > devices. After that you will be able to create device with _HID(QEMU0001) > in DSDT that supplies address information (ioport to use) and capability > supported. Please also document this HID in a new file in the QEMU docs/ directory. > Guest uses acpi_get_devices() to discover a platform device by > its name (QEMU0001). Then you put the driver for the platform device > into drivers/platform/x86/ and QEMU/kvm/Xen all will be able to use it. Just to clarify it for Hu Tao, the read from a random ioport is how the ACPI code will detect presence of the device. Something like this should work (in SeaBIOS's src/acpi-dsdt-isa.dsl): Device(PEVT) { Name(_HID, EisaId("QEMU0001")) OperationRegion(PEOR, SystemIO, 0x505, 0x01) Field(PEOR, ByteAcc, NoLock, Preserve) { PEPT, 8, } Method(_STA, 0, NotSerialized) { Store(PEPT, Local0) If (LEqual(Local0, Zero)) { Return (0x00) } Else { Return (0x0F) } } Name(_CRS, ResourceTemplate() { IO(Decode16, 0x505, 0x505, 0x01, 0x01) }) } Please test this with a QEMU option like "-M pc-1.4". The device should _not_ be detected if you're doing it right. > On QEMU side of things I cannot comment much on how QOMified the device > is (it should be), Please make the device target-independent. It can be used on non-x86 architectures that have I/O ports. You should make the port configurable using a property (DEFINE_PROPERTY_INT16 or something like that), with a default of 0x505. All the panicked_action is not necessary in my opinion. We have it for watchdogs, but that's really a legacy thing. Let libvirt do it, and always make the guest panic perform the PANICKED_PAUSE action. If you do it properly, a lot (really a lot) of code will go away. > I hope other reviews will verify it, but I noticed > that device is only initialized for PIIX, what about Q35? Yup. Paolo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/