From: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
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James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] KVM: arm64: Add PSCI SYSTEM_OFF2 function for hibernation
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 08:47:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZfB5BMfLHWhQXLZY@thinky-boi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240312135958.727765-2-dwmw2@infradead.org>
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 01:51:28PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
>
> The PSCI v1.3 specification (alpha) adds support for a SYSTEM_OFF2 function
> which is analogous to ACPI S4 state. This will allow hosting environments
> to determine that a guest is hibernated rather than just powered off, and
> ensure that they preserve the virtual environment appropriately to allow
> the guest to resume safely (or bump the hardware_signature in the FACS to
> trigger a clean reboot instead).
>
> The beta version will be changed to say that PSCI_FEATURES returns a bit
> mask of the supported hibernate types, which is implemented here.
Have you considered doing the PSCI implementation in userspace? The
SMCCC filter [*] was added for this exact purpose. There are other
features being done in userspace (e.g. vCPU hotplug) built on
intercepting hypercalls, this seems to be a reasonable candidate too.
[*] https://docs.kernel.org/virt/kvm/devices/vm.html#attribute-kvm-arm-vm-smccc-filter-w-o
--
Thanks,
Oliver
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-12 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-12 13:51 [RFC PATCH 0/2] Add PSCI v1.3 SYSTEM_OFF2 support for hibernation David Woodhouse
2024-03-12 13:51 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] KVM: arm64: Add PSCI SYSTEM_OFF2 function " David Woodhouse
2024-03-12 15:36 ` Marc Zyngier
2024-03-12 17:06 ` David Woodhouse
2024-03-12 15:47 ` Oliver Upton [this message]
2024-03-13 12:53 ` David Woodhouse
2024-03-13 19:42 ` Oliver Upton
2024-03-13 23:01 ` David Woodhouse
2024-03-12 13:51 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] arm64: Use SYSTEM_OFF2 PSCI call to power off for hibernate David Woodhouse
2024-03-12 15:57 ` Sudeep Holla
2024-03-12 16:36 ` David Woodhouse
2024-03-13 15:34 ` Sudeep Holla
2024-03-14 11:09 ` Sudeep Holla
2024-03-14 11:27 ` David Woodhouse
2024-03-12 15:24 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] Add PSCI v1.3 SYSTEM_OFF2 support for hibernation Marc Zyngier
2024-03-12 17:01 ` David Woodhouse
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