[RFC PATCH 0/5] ARM: KVM: Enable the ioeventfd capability of KVM on ARM

[eric.auger@linaro.org (Eric Auger)]

On 11/24/2014 10:26 PM, Nikolay Nikolaev wrote:
> The IOEVENTFD KVM capability is a prerequisite for vhost support,
> and is also used to implement improved interrupt handling in VFIO drivers.
Hi Nikolay

As far as I am aware, irqfd currently is used in vfio context, not
ioeventfd, although they both are implemented in eventfd.c. Could you
elaborate?
> 
> This series enables the ioeventfd KVM capability on ARM.
> 
> The implementation routes MMIO access in the IO abort handler to the KVM IO bus.
> If there is already a registered ioeventfd handler for this address, the file
> descriptor will be triggered.
> 
> We extended the KVM IO bus API to expose the VCPU struct pointer. Now the VGIC
> MMIO access is done through this API. For this to operate the VGIC registers a
> kvm_io_device which reprresents the whole MMIO region.
typo & the whole dist MMIO region?

I think the transformation makes sense and does not bring upheavals in
the vgic code which is good.

Best Regards

Eric
> 
> The patches are implemented on top of the latest Andre's vGICv3 work from here:
> http://www.linux-arm.org/git?p=linux-ap.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/kvm-gicv3/v4
> 
> The code was tested on Dual Cortex-A15 Exynos5250 (ARM Chromebook).
> 
> ---
> 
> Nikolay Nikolaev (5):
>       KVM: redesing kvm_io_bus_ API to pass VCPU structure to the callbacks.
>       ARM: on IO mem abort - route the call to KVM MMIO bus
>       KVM: ARM VGIC add kvm_io_bus_ frontend
>       ARM: enable linking against eventfd and irqchip
>       ARM: enable KVM_CAP_IOEVENTFD
> 
> 
>  arch/arm/kvm/Kconfig       |    1 +
>  arch/arm/kvm/Makefile      |    2 +
>  arch/arm/kvm/arm.c         |    3 ++
>  arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c        |   32 ++++++++++++++++
>  arch/ia64/kvm/kvm-ia64.c   |    4 +-
>  arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c |    4 +-
>  arch/s390/kvm/diag.c       |    2 +
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c         |    2 +
>  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c         |   11 +++---
>  include/kvm/arm_vgic.h     |    3 +-
>  include/linux/kvm_host.h   |   10 +++--
>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c        |   88 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  virt/kvm/coalesced_mmio.c  |    5 ++-
>  virt/kvm/eventfd.c         |    4 +-
>  virt/kvm/iodev.h           |   23 ++++++++----
>  virt/kvm/kvm_main.c        |   32 ++++++++--------
>  16 files changed, 163 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)
> 
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> Signature
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