Re: [PATCH v5 00/22] Support SDEI Virtualization

[Oliver Upton]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 04:06:48PM +0800, Gavin Shan wrote:
> This series intends to virtualize Software Delegated Exception Interface
> (SDEI), which is defined by DEN0054C (v1.1). It allows the hypervisor to
> deliver NMI-alike SDEI event to guest and it's needed by Async PF to
> deliver page-not-present notification from hypervisor to guest. The code
> and the required qemu changes can be found from:
> 
>    https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0054/c
>    https://github.com/gwshan/linux    ("kvm/arm64_sdei")
>    https://github.com/gwshan/qemu     ("kvm/arm64_sdei")
> 
> For the design and migration needs, please refer to the document in
> PATCH[21/22] in this series. The series is organized as below:
> 
>   PATCH[01]    Introduces template for smccc_get_argx()
>   PATCH[02]    Adds SDEI virtualization infrastructure
>   PATCH[03-17] Supports various SDEI hypercalls and event handling
>   PATCH[18-20] Adds ioctl commands to support migration and configuration
>                and exports SDEI capability
>   PATCH[21]    Adds SDEI document 
>   PATCH[22]    Adds SDEI selftest case
> 
> Testing
> =======
> 
> [1] The selftest case included in this series works fine. The default SDEI
>     event, whose number is zero, can be registered, enabled, raised. The
>     SDEI event handler can be invoked.
> 
>     [host]# pwd
>     /home/gavin/sandbox/linux.main/tools/testing/selftests/kvm
>     [root@virtlab-arm01 kvm]# ./aarch64/sdei 
> 
>         NR_VCPUS: 2    SDEI Event: 0x00000000
> 
>     --- VERSION
>         Version:              1.1 (vendor: 0x4b564d)
>     --- FEATURES
>         Shared event slots:   0
>         Private event slots:  0
>         Relative mode:        No
>     --- PRIVATE_RESET
>     --- SHARED_RESET
>     --- PE_UNMASK
>     --- EVENT_GET_INFO
>         Type:                 Private
>         Priority:             Normal
>         Signaled:             Yes
>     --- EVENT_REGISTER
>     --- EVENT_ENABLE
>     --- EVENT_SIGNAL
>         Handled:              Yes
>         IRQ:                  No
>         Status:               Registered-Enabled-Running
>         PC/PSTATE:            000000000040232c 00000000600003c5
>         Regs:                 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>                               0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>     --- PE_MASK
>     --- EVENT_DISABLE
>     --- EVENT_UNREGISTER
> 
>         Result: OK
> 
> [2] There are additional patches in the following repositories to create
>     procfs entries, allowing to inject SDEI event from host side. The
>     SDEI client in the guest side registers the SDEI default event, whose
>     number is zero. Also, the QEMU exports SDEI ACPI table and supports
>     migration for SDEI.
> 
>     https://github.com/gwshan/linux    ("kvm/arm64_sdei")
>     https://github.com/gwshan/qemu     ("kvm/arm64_sdei")
> 
>     [2.1] Start the guests and migrate the source VM to the destination
>           VM.
> 
>     [host]# /home/gavin/sandbox/qemu.main/build/qemu-system-aarch64       \
>             -accel kvm -machine virt,gic-version=host                     \
>             -cpu host -smp 6,sockets=2,cores=3,threads=1                  \
>             -m 1024M,slots=16,maxmem=64G                                  \
>                :                                                          \
>             -kernel /home/gavin/sandbox/linux.guest/arch/arm64/boot/Image \
>             -initrd /home/gavin/sandbox/images/rootfs.cpio.xz             \
>             -append earlycon=pl011,mmio,0x9000000                         \
>                :
> 
>     [host]# /home/gavin/sandbox/qemu.main/build/qemu-system-aarch64       \
>             -accel kvm -machine virt,gic-version=host                     \
>             -cpu host -smp 6,sockets=2,cores=3,threads=1                  \
>             -m 1024M,slots=16,maxmem=64G                                  \
>                :                                                          \
>             -kernel /home/gavin/sandbox/linux.guest/arch/arm64/boot/Image \
>             -initrd /home/gavin/sandbox/images/rootfs.cpio.xz             \
>             -append earlycon=pl011,mmio,0x9000000                         \
>             -incoming tcp:0:4444                                          \
>                :
> 
>     [2.2] Check kernel log on the source VM. The SDEI service is enabled
>           and the default SDEI event (0x0) is enabled.
> 
>      [guest-src]# dmesg | grep -i sdei
>      ACPI: SDEI 0x000000005BC80000 000024 \
>                 (v00 BOCHS  BXPC     00000001 BXPC 00000001)
>      sdei: SDEIv1.1 (0x4b564d) detected in firmware.
>      SDEI TEST: Version 1.1, Vendor 0x4b564d
>      sdei_init: SDEI event (0x0) registered
>      sdei_init: SDEI event (0x0) enabled
> 
>  
>      (qemu) migrate -d tcp:localhost:4444
> 
>     [2.3] Migrate the source VM to the destination VM. Inject SDEI event
>           to the destination VM. The event is raised and handled.
> 
>     (qemu) migrate -d tcp:localhost:4444
> 
>     [host]# echo 0 > /proc/kvm/kvm-5360/vcpu-1
> 
>     [guest-dst]#
>     =========== SDEI Event (CPU#1) ===========
>     Event: 0000000000000000  Parameter: 00000000dabfdabf
>     PC: ffff800008cbb554  PSTATE: 00000000604000c5  SP: ffff800009c7bde0
>     Regs:    00000000000016ee ffff00001ffd2e28 00000000000016ed 0000000000000001 
>              ffff800016c28000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 
>              0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 
>              0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 
>              0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff800009399008 
>              ffff8000097d9af0 ffff8000097d99f8 ffff8000093a8db8 ffff8000097d9b18 
>              0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff000000339d00 0000000000000000 
>              0000000000000000 ffff800009c7bde0 ffff800008cbb5c4 
>     Context: 00000000000016ee ffff00001ffd2e28 00000000000016ed 0000000000000001 
>              ffff800016c28000 03ffffffffffffff 000000024325db59 ffff8000097de190 
>              ffff00000033a790 ffff800008cbb814 0000000000000a30 0000000000000000 
> 
> Changelog
> ========= 
> v5:

Next time can you include a link to the cover letter of the previous
patch set? It is extremely helpful for understanding the progress to
date and allows reviewers to see prior feedback.

--
Thanks,
Oliver