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

From: [email-masked] (Eric Auger)
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 14:52:27 +0200

On 09/02/2014 11:05 PM, 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/kvm at vger.kernel.org/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 */
> 	}
> 
> 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,
Hi Alex,

Yes it makes sense. I will rework the patch in this direction.

Thanks

Eric
> Alex