[PATCH 00/17] HSM driver for ACRN hypervisor

[shuo . a . liu]

From: Shuo Liu <shuo.a.liu@xxxxxxxxx>

ACRN is a Type 1 reference hypervisor stack, running directly on the bare-metal
hardware, and is suitable for a variety of IoT and embedded device solutions.

ACRN implements a hybrid VMM architecture, using a privileged Service VM. The
Service VM manages the system resources (CPU, memory, etc.) and I/O devices of
User VMs. Multiple User VMs are supported, with each of them running Linux,
Android OS or Windows. Both Service VM and User VMs are guest VM.

Below figure shows the architecture.

                Service VM                    User VM
      +----------------------------+  |  +------------------+
      |        +--------------+    |  |  |                  |
      |        |ACRN userspace|    |  |  |                  |
      |        +--------------+    |  |  |                  |
      |-----------------ioctl------|  |  |                  |   ...
      |kernel space   +----------+ |  |  |                  |
      |               |   HSM    | |  |  | Drivers          |
      |               +----------+ |  |  |                  |
      +--------------------|-------+  |  +------------------+
  +---------------------hypercall----------------------------------------+
  |                       ACRN Hypervisor                                |
  +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
  |                          Hardware                                    |
  +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

There is only one Service VM which could run Linux as OS.

In a typical case, the Service VM will be auto started when ACRN Hypervisor is
booted. Then the ACRN userspace (an application running in Service VM) could be
used to start/stop User VMs by communicating with ACRN Hypervisor Service
Module (HSM).

ACRN Hypervisor Service Module (HSM) is a middle layer that allows the ACRN
userspace and Service VM OS kernel to communicate with ACRN Hypervisor
and manage different User VMs. This middle layer provides the following
functionalities,
  - Issues hypercalls to the hypervisor to manage User VMs:
      * VM/vCPU management
      * Memory management
      * Device passthrough
      * Interrupts injection
  - I/O requests handling from User VMs.
  - Exports ioctl through HSM char device.
  - Exports function calls for other kernel modules

ACRN is focused on embedded system. So it doesn't support some features.
E.g.,
  - ACRN doesn't support VM migration.
  - ACRN doesn't support vCPU migration.

This patch set adds the HSM to the Linux kernel.

The basic ARCN support was merged to upstream already.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1559108037-18813-3-git-send-email-yakui.zhao@xxxxxxxxx/

Shuo Liu (16):
  docs: acrn: Introduce ACRN
  x86/acrn: Introduce acrn_{setup, remove}_intr_handler()
  x86/acrn: Introduce hypercall interfaces
  virt: acrn: Introduce ACRN HSM basic driver
  virt: acrn: Introduce VM management interfaces
  virt: acrn: Introduce an ioctl to set vCPU registers state
  virt: acrn: Introduce EPT mapping management
  virt: acrn: Introduce I/O request management
  virt: acrn: Introduce PCI configuration space PIO accesses combiner
  virt: acrn: Introduce interfaces for PCI device passthrough
  virt: acrn: Introduce interrupt injection interfaces
  virt: acrn: Introduce interfaces to query C-states and P-states
    allowed by hypervisor
  virt: acrn: Introduce I/O ranges operation interfaces
  virt: acrn: Introduce ioeventfd
  virt: acrn: Introduce irqfd
  virt: acrn: Introduce an interface for Service VM to control vCPU

Yin Fengwei (1):
  x86/acrn: Introduce an API to check if a VM is privileged

 .../userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst      |   1 +
 Documentation/virt/acrn/index.rst             |  11 +
 Documentation/virt/acrn/introduction.rst      |  40 ++
 Documentation/virt/acrn/io-request.rst        |  97 +++
 Documentation/virt/index.rst                  |   1 +
 MAINTAINERS                                   |   9 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/acrn.h                   |  74 ++
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/acrn.c                    |  38 +-
 drivers/virt/Kconfig                          |   2 +
 drivers/virt/Makefile                         |   1 +
 drivers/virt/acrn/Kconfig                     |  15 +
 drivers/virt/acrn/Makefile                    |   3 +
 drivers/virt/acrn/acrn_drv.h                  | 225 ++++++
 drivers/virt/acrn/hsm.c                       | 439 ++++++++++++
 drivers/virt/acrn/hypercall.h                 | 266 ++++++++
 drivers/virt/acrn/ioeventfd.c                 | 275 ++++++++
 drivers/virt/acrn/ioreq.c                     | 638 ++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/virt/acrn/irqfd.c                     | 236 +++++++
 drivers/virt/acrn/mm.c                        | 298 ++++++++
 drivers/virt/acrn/vm.c                        | 120 ++++
 include/uapi/linux/acrn.h                     | 499 ++++++++++++++
 21 files changed, 3287 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/virt/acrn/index.rst
 create mode 100644 Documentation/virt/acrn/introduction.rst
 create mode 100644 Documentation/virt/acrn/io-request.rst
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/acrn.h
 create mode 100644 drivers/virt/acrn/Kconfig
 create mode 100644 drivers/virt/acrn/Makefile
 create mode 100644 drivers/virt/acrn/acrn_drv.h
 create mode 100644 drivers/virt/acrn/hsm.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/virt/acrn/hypercall.h
 create mode 100644 drivers/virt/acrn/ioeventfd.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/virt/acrn/ioreq.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/virt/acrn/irqfd.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/virt/acrn/mm.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/virt/acrn/vm.c
 create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/acrn.h


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