From: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
To: eric.auger.pro@gmail.com, eric.auger@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, marc.zyngier@arm.com,
cdall@linaro.org, peter.maydell@linaro.org,
andre.przywara@arm.com, wanghaibin.wang@huawei.com
Cc: wu.wubin@huawei.com
Subject: [PATCH v5 09/10] KVM: arm/arm64: Document KVM_DEV_ARM_ITS_CTRL_RESET
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 16:08:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1508767709-15256-10-git-send-email-eric.auger@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1508767709-15256-1-git-send-email-eric.auger@redhat.com>
At the moment, the in-kernel emulated ITS is not properly reset.
On guest restart/reset some registers keep their old values and
internal structures like device, ITE, and collection lists are not
freed.
This may lead to various bugs. Among them, we can have incorrect state
backup or failure when saving the ITS state at early guest boot stage.
This patch documents a new attribute, KVM_DEV_ARM_ITS_CTRL_RESET in
the KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CTRL group.
Upon this action, we can reset registers and especially those
pointing to tables previously allocated by the guest and free
the internal data structures storing the list of devices, collections
and lpis.
The usual approach for device reset of having userspace write
the reset values of the registers to the kernel via the register
read/write APIs doesn't work for the ITS because it has some
internal state (caches) which is not exposed as registers,
and there is no register interface for "drop cached data without
writing it back to RAM". So we need a KVM API which mimics the
hardware's reset line, to provide the equivalent behaviour to
a "pull the power cord out of the back of the machine" reset.
Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Reported-by: wanghaibin <wanghaibin.wang@huawei.com>
---
v4 -> v5:
- some rewording according to Christoffer's comments
v2 -> v3:
- reword commit message, credit to Peter Maydell.
- take into account Christoffer rewording comments but still
kept details. Added Peter's comment but still kept details.
Peter may disagree.
v1 -> v2:
- Describe architecturally-defined reset values
---
Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-its.txt | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-its.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-its.txt
index eb06beb..d12d8e9 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-its.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-its.txt
@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ Groups:
request the initialization of the ITS, no additional parameter in
kvm_device_attr.addr.
+ KVM_DEV_ARM_ITS_CTRL_RESET
+ reset the ITS, no additional parameter in kvm_device_attr.addr.
+ See "ITS Reset State" section.
+
KVM_DEV_ARM_ITS_SAVE_TABLES
save the ITS table data into guest RAM, at the location provisioned
by the guest in corresponding registers/table entries.
@@ -157,3 +161,20 @@ Then vcpus can be started.
- pINTID is the physical LPI ID; if zero, it means the entry is not valid
and other fields are not meaningful.
- ICID is the collection ID
+
+ ITS Reset State:
+ ----------------
+
+RESET returns the ITS to the same state that it was when first created and
+initialized. When the RESET command returns, the following things are
+guaranteed:
+
+- The ITS is not enabled and quiescent
+ GITS_CTLR.Enabled = 0 .Quiescent=1
+- There is no internally cached state
+- No collection or device table are used
+ GITS_BASER<n>.Valid = 0
+- The command queue is not allocated:
+ GITS_CBASER = 0, GITS_CREADR = 0, GITS_CWRITER = 0
+- The ABI version is unchanged and remains the one set when the ITS
+ device was first created.
--
2.5.5
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-23 14:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-23 14:08 [PATCH v5 00/10] vITS Migration fixes and reset Eric Auger
2017-10-23 14:08 ` [PATCH v5 01/10] KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-its: Fix return value for device table restore Eric Auger
2017-10-24 16:02 ` Christoffer Dall
2017-10-23 14:08 ` [PATCH v5 02/10] KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-its: Fix vgic_its_restore_collection_table returned value Eric Auger
2017-10-24 16:15 ` Christoffer Dall
2017-10-23 14:08 ` [PATCH v5 03/10] KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-its: Check CBASER/BASER validity before enabling the ITS Eric Auger
2017-10-25 9:38 ` Marc Zyngier
2017-10-25 9:46 ` Marc Zyngier
2017-10-25 11:52 ` Christoffer Dall
2017-10-23 14:08 ` [PATCH v5 04/10] KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-its: Check GITS_BASER Valid bit before saving tables Eric Auger
2017-10-25 9:47 ` Marc Zyngier
2017-10-23 14:08 ` [PATCH v5 05/10] KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-its: Save the collection table before device tables Eric Auger
2017-10-25 9:59 ` Christoffer Dall
2017-10-23 14:08 ` [PATCH v5 06/10] KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-its: Remove kvm_its_unmap_device Eric Auger
2017-10-25 9:45 ` Christoffer Dall
2017-10-23 14:08 ` [PATCH v5 07/10] KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-its: New helper functions to free the caches Eric Auger
2017-10-25 10:31 ` Christoffer Dall
2017-10-25 10:31 ` Marc Zyngier
2017-10-23 14:08 ` [PATCH v5 08/10] KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-its: Free caches when GITS_BASER Valid bit is cleared Eric Auger
2017-10-25 10:23 ` Marc Zyngier
2017-10-23 14:08 ` Eric Auger [this message]
2017-10-25 10:40 ` [PATCH v5 09/10] KVM: arm/arm64: Document KVM_DEV_ARM_ITS_CTRL_RESET Marc Zyngier
2017-10-23 14:08 ` [PATCH v5 10/10] KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-its: Implement KVM_DEV_ARM_ITS_CTRL_RESET Eric Auger
2017-10-25 10:52 ` Marc Zyngier
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