Subject: [RFC 6/8] KVM: arm/arm64: Update the physical timer interrupt level

From: [email-masked] (Christoffer Dall)
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 13:14:45 +0100

On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 12:12:04PM -0500, Jintack Lim wrote:
> Now that we maintain the EL1 physical timer register states of the VM,
> update the physical timer interrupt level along with the virtual one.
> 
> Note that the emulated EL1 physical timer is not mapped to any hardware
> timer, so we let vgic know that.
> 
> With this commit, VMs are able to get the physical timer interrupts
> while they are runnable. But they won't get interrupts once vcpus go to
> sleep since we don't have code to wake vcpus up on the emulated physical
> timer expiration yet.

I'm not sure I understand.  It looks to me like it's the other way
around and that this code supports waking up a sleeping VCPU sooner if
it has a physical timer scheduled, but doesn't yet support causing an
early exit from running the VPCU base on programing the physical timer?

Thanks,
-Christoffer

> 
> Signed-off-by: Jintack Lim <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  arch/arm/kvm/arm.c        |  3 +-
>  virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  2 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
> index 37d1623..d2dfa32 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
> @@ -295,7 +295,8 @@ void kvm_arch_vcpu_destroy(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  
>  int kvm_cpu_has_pending_timer(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  {
> -	return kvm_timer_should_fire(vcpu, vcpu_vtimer(vcpu));
> +	return kvm_timer_should_fire(vcpu, vcpu_vtimer(vcpu)) ||
> +		kvm_timer_should_fire(vcpu, vcpu_ptimer(vcpu));
>  }
>  
>  void kvm_arch_vcpu_blocking(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c b/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c
> index ed80864..aa7e243 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c
> @@ -91,7 +91,8 @@ static void kvm_timer_inject_irq_work(struct work_struct *work)
>  	vcpu = container_of(work, struct kvm_vcpu, arch.timer_cpu.expired);
>  	vcpu->arch.timer_cpu.armed = false;
>  
> -	WARN_ON(!kvm_timer_should_fire(vcpu, vcpu_vtimer(vcpu)));
> +	WARN_ON(!kvm_timer_should_fire(vcpu, vcpu_vtimer(vcpu)) &&
> +		!kvm_timer_should_fire(vcpu, vcpu_ptimer(vcpu)));
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * If the vcpu is blocked we want to wake it up so that it will see
> @@ -130,6 +131,33 @@ static u64 kvm_timer_compute_delta(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +static bool kvm_timer_irq_can_fire(struct arch_timer_context *timer_ctx)
> +{
> +	return !(timer_ctx->cnt_ctl & ARCH_TIMER_CTRL_IT_MASK) &&
> +		(timer_ctx->cnt_ctl & ARCH_TIMER_CTRL_ENABLE);
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * Returns minimal timer expiration time in ns among guest timers.
> + * Note that it will return inf time if none of timers can fire.
> + */
> +static u64 kvm_timer_min_block(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> +{
> +	u64 min_virt = ULLONG_MAX, min_phys = ULLONG_MAX;
> +	struct arch_timer_context *vtimer = vcpu_vtimer(vcpu);
> +	struct arch_timer_context *ptimer = vcpu_ptimer(vcpu);
> +
> +	if (kvm_timer_irq_can_fire(vtimer))
> +		min_virt = kvm_timer_compute_delta(vcpu, vtimer);
> +
> +	if (kvm_timer_irq_can_fire(ptimer))
> +		min_phys = kvm_timer_compute_delta(vcpu, ptimer);
> +
> +	WARN_ON((min_virt == ULLONG_MAX) && (min_phys == ULLONG_MAX));
> +
> +	return min(min_virt, min_phys);
> +}
> +
>  static enum hrtimer_restart kvm_timer_expire(struct hrtimer *hrt)
>  {
>  	struct arch_timer_cpu *timer;
> @@ -144,7 +172,7 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart kvm_timer_expire(struct hrtimer *hrt)
>  	 * PoV (NTP on the host may have forced it to expire
>  	 * early). If we should have slept longer, restart it.
>  	 */
> -	ns = kvm_timer_compute_delta(vcpu, vcpu_vtimer(vcpu));
> +	ns = kvm_timer_min_block(vcpu);
>  	if (unlikely(ns)) {
>  		hrtimer_forward_now(hrt, ns_to_ktime(ns));
>  		return HRTIMER_RESTART;
> @@ -154,12 +182,6 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart kvm_timer_expire(struct hrtimer *hrt)
>  	return HRTIMER_NORESTART;
>  }
>  
> -static bool kvm_timer_irq_can_fire(struct arch_timer_context *timer_ctx)
> -{
> -	return !(timer_ctx->cnt_ctl & ARCH_TIMER_CTRL_IT_MASK) &&
> -		(timer_ctx->cnt_ctl & ARCH_TIMER_CTRL_ENABLE);
> -}
> -
>  bool kvm_timer_should_fire(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>  			   struct arch_timer_context *timer_ctx)
>  {
> @@ -191,6 +213,21 @@ static void kvm_timer_update_mapped_irq(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool new_level,
>  	WARN_ON(ret);
>  }
>  
> +static void kvm_timer_update_irq(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool new_level,
> +				 struct arch_timer_context *timer)
> +{
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	BUG_ON(!vgic_initialized(vcpu->kvm));
> +
> +	timer->irq.level = new_level;
> +	trace_kvm_timer_update_irq(vcpu->vcpu_id, timer->irq.irq,
> +				   timer->irq.level);
> +	ret = kvm_vgic_inject_irq(vcpu->kvm, vcpu->vcpu_id, timer->irq.irq,
> +				  timer->irq.level);
> +	WARN_ON(ret);
> +}
> +
>  /*
>   * Check if there was a change in the timer state (should we raise or lower
>   * the line level to the GIC).
> @@ -198,6 +235,7 @@ static void kvm_timer_update_mapped_irq(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool new_level,
>  static int kvm_timer_update_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  {
>  	struct arch_timer_context *vtimer = vcpu_vtimer(vcpu);
> +	struct arch_timer_context *ptimer = vcpu_ptimer(vcpu);
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * If userspace modified the timer registers via SET_ONE_REG before
> @@ -211,6 +249,10 @@ static int kvm_timer_update_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  	if (kvm_timer_should_fire(vcpu, vtimer) != vtimer->irq.level)
>  		kvm_timer_update_mapped_irq(vcpu, !vtimer->irq.level, vtimer);
>  
> +	/* The emulated EL1 physical timer irq is not mapped to hardware */
> +	if (kvm_timer_should_fire(vcpu, ptimer) != ptimer->irq.level)
> +		kvm_timer_update_irq(vcpu, !ptimer->irq.level, ptimer);
> +
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> @@ -223,26 +265,32 @@ void kvm_timer_schedule(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  {
>  	struct arch_timer_cpu *timer = &vcpu->arch.timer_cpu;
>  	struct arch_timer_context *vtimer = vcpu_vtimer(vcpu);
> +	struct arch_timer_context *ptimer = vcpu_ptimer(vcpu);
>  
>  	BUG_ON(timer_is_armed(timer));
>  
>  	/*
> -	 * No need to schedule a background timer if the guest timer has
> +	 * No need to schedule a background timer if any guest timer has
>  	 * already expired, because kvm_vcpu_block will return before putting
>  	 * the thread to sleep.
>  	 */
> -	if (kvm_timer_should_fire(vcpu, vtimer))
> +	if (kvm_timer_should_fire(vcpu, vtimer) ||
> +	    kvm_timer_should_fire(vcpu, ptimer))
>  		return;
>  
>  	/*
> -	 * If the timer is not capable of raising interrupts (disabled or
> +	 * If both timers are not capable of raising interrupts (disabled or
>  	 * masked), then there's no more work for us to do.
>  	 */
> -	if (!kvm_timer_irq_can_fire(vtimer))
> +	if (!kvm_timer_irq_can_fire(vtimer) &&
> +	    !kvm_timer_irq_can_fire(ptimer))
>  		return;
>  
> -	/*  The timer has not yet expired, schedule a background timer */
> -	timer_arm(timer, kvm_timer_compute_delta(vcpu, vtimer));
> +	/*
> +	 * The guest timers have not yet expired, schedule a background timer.
> +	 * Pick smaller expiration time between phys and virt timer.
> +	 */
> +	timer_arm(timer, kvm_timer_min_block(vcpu));
>  }
>  
>  void kvm_timer_unschedule(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 
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