Re: [PATCH v20 00/17] KVM RISC-V Support

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Mon Oct 04 2021 - 04:58:36 EST


On 27/09/21 13:39, Anup Patel wrote:
This series adds initial KVM RISC-V support. Currently, we are able to boot
Linux on RV64/RV32 Guest with multiple VCPUs.

Key aspects of KVM RISC-V added by this series are:
1. No RISC-V specific KVM IOCTL
2. Loadable KVM RISC-V module supported
3. Minimal possible KVM world-switch which touches only GPRs and few CSRs
4. Both RV64 and RV32 host supported
5. Full Guest/VM switch is done via vcpu_get/vcpu_put infrastructure
6. KVM ONE_REG interface for VCPU register access from user-space
7. PLIC emulation is done in user-space
8. Timer and IPI emuation is done in-kernel
9. Both Sv39x4 and Sv48x4 supported for RV64 host
10. MMU notifiers supported
11. Generic dirtylog supported
12. FP lazy save/restore supported
13. SBI v0.1 emulation for KVM Guest available
14. Forward unhandled SBI calls to KVM userspace
15. Hugepage support for Guest/VM
16. IOEVENTFD support for Vhost

Here's a brief TODO list which we will work upon after this series:
1. KVM unit test support
2. KVM selftest support
3. SBI v0.3 emulation in-kernel
4. In-kernel PMU virtualization
5. In-kernel AIA irqchip support
6. Nested virtualizaiton
7. ..... and more .....

Looks good, I prepared a tag "for-riscv" at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm.git. Palmer can pull it and you can use it to send me a pull request.

I look forward to the test support. :) Would be nice to have selftest support already in 5.16, since there are a few arch-independent selftests that cover the hairy parts of the MMU.

Paolo