[PATCH v2 2/5] KVM: arm/arm64: Add ARM user space interrupt signaling ABI

Christoffer Dall
2017-02-03T14:57:02Z

From: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>

We have 2 modes for dealing with interrupts in the ARM world. We can
either handle them all using hardware acceleration through the vgic or
we can emulate a gic in user space and only drive CPU IRQ pins from
there.

Unfortunately, when driving IRQs from user space, we never tell user
space about events from devices emulated inside the kernel, which may
result in interrupt line state changes, so we lose out on for example
timer and PMU events if we run with user space gic emulation.

Define an ABI to publish such device output levels to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
---
Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h | 2 ++
arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h | 2 ++
include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 8 ++++++++
4 files changed, 53 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
index 03145b7..76a5ebc 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
@@ -3942,3 +3942,44 @@ In order to use SynIC, it has to be activated by setting this
capability via KVM_ENABLE_CAP ioctl on the vcpu fd. Note that this
will disable the use of APIC hardware virtualization even if supported
by the CPU, as it's incompatible with SynIC auto-EOI behavior.
+
+8.3 KVM_CAP_ARM_USER_IRQ
+
+Architectures: arm, arm64
+This capability, if KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION indicates that it is available, means
+that if userspace creates a VM without an in-kernel interrupt controller, it
+will be notified of changes to the output level of in-kernel emulated devices,
+which can generate virtual interrupts, presented to the VM.
+For such VMs, on every return to userspace, the kernel
+updates the vcpu's run->s.regs.device_irq_level field to represent the actual
+output level of the device.
+
+Whenever kvm detects a change in the device output level, kvm guarantees at
+least one return to userspace before running the VM. This exit could either
+be a KVM_EXIT_INTR or any other exit event, like KVM_EXIT_MMIO. This way,
+userspace can always sample the device output level and re-compute the state of
+the userspace interrupt controller. Userspace should always check the state
+of run->s.regs.device_irq_level on every kvm exit.
+The value in run->s.regs.device_irq_level can represent both level and edge
+triggered interrupt signals, depending on the device. Edge triggered interrupt
+signals will exit to userspace with the bit in run->s.regs.device_irq_level
+set exactly once per edge signal.
+
+The field run->s.regs.device_irq_level is available independent of
+run->kvm_valid_regs or run->kvm_dirty_regs bits.
+
+If KVM_CAP_ARM_USER_IRQ is supported, the KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION ioctl returns a
+number larger than 0 indicating the version of this capability is implemented
+and thereby which bits in in run->s.regs.device_irq_level can signal values.
+
+Currently the following bits are defined for the device_irq_level bitmap:
+
+ KVM_CAP_ARM_USER_IRQ >= 1:
+
+ KVM_ARM_DEV_EL1_VTIMER - EL1 virtual timer
+ KVM_ARM_DEV_EL1_PTIMER - EL1 physical timer
+ KVM_ARM_DEV_PMU - ARM PMU overflow interrupt signal
+
+Future versions of kvm may implement additional events. These will get
+indicated by returning a higher number from KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION and will be
+listed above.
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h b/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
index 6ebd3e6..c8af4d8 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
@@ -114,6 +114,8 @@ struct kvm_debug_exit_arch {
};

struct kvm_sync_regs {
+ /* Used with KVM_CAP_ARM_USER_IRQ */
+ u64 device_irq_level;
};

struct kvm_arch_memory_slot {
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h b/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
index c286035..4197f51 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
@@ -143,6 +143,8 @@ struct kvm_debug_exit_arch {
#define KVM_GUESTDBG_USE_HW (1 << 17)

struct kvm_sync_regs {
+ /* Used with KVM_CAP_ARM_USER_IRQ */
+ u64 device_irq_level;
};

struct kvm_arch_memory_slot {
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
index cac48ed..21e4cb9 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
@@ -871,6 +871,7 @@ struct kvm_ppc_smmu_info {
#define KVM_CAP_S390_USER_INSTR0 130
#define KVM_CAP_MSI_DEVID 131
#define KVM_CAP_PPC_HTM 132
+#define KVM_CAP_ARM_USER_IRQ 133

#ifdef KVM_CAP_IRQ_ROUTING

@@ -1335,4 +1336,11 @@ struct kvm_assigned_msix_entry {
#define KVM_X2APIC_API_USE_32BIT_IDS (1ULL << 0)
#define KVM_X2APIC_API_DISABLE_BROADCAST_QUIRK (1ULL << 1)

+/* Available with KVM_CAP_ARM_USER_IRQ */
+
+/* Bits for run->s.regs.device_irq_level */
+#define KVM_ARM_DEV_EL1_VTIMER (1 << 0)
+#define KVM_ARM_DEV_EL1_PTIMER (1 << 1)
+#define KVM_ARM_DEV_PMU (1 << 2)
+
#endif /* __LINUX_KVM_H */
--
2.9.0