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From: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@bytedance.com>
To: Usama Arif <usama.arif@bytedance.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux@armlinux.org.uk,
	yezengruan@huawei.com, catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org,
	maz@kernel.org, steven.price@arm.com, mark.rutland@arm.com,
	bagasdotme@gmail.com, fam.zheng@bytedance.com,
	liangma@liangbit.com, punit.agrawal@bytedance.com
Subject: Re: [v2 1/6] KVM: arm64: Document PV-lock interface
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2022 17:56:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k0463axq.fsf@stealth> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20221104062105.4119003-2-usama.arif@bytedance.com

Hi Usama,

Usama Arif <usama.arif@bytedance.com> writes:

> Introduce a paravirtualization interface for KVM/arm64 to obtain whether
> the VCPU is currently running or not.
>
> The PV lock structure of the guest is allocated by user space.
>
> A hypercall interface is provided for the guest to interrogate the
> location of the shared memory structures.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zengruan Ye <yezengruan@huawei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@bytedance.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/index.rst    |  1 +
>  Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pvlock.rst   | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vcpu.rst | 25 ++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 78 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pvlock.rst
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/index.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/index.rst
> index e84848432158..b8499dc00a6a 100644
> --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/index.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/index.rst
> @@ -10,4 +10,5 @@ ARM
>     hyp-abi
>     hypercalls
>     pvtime
> +   pvlock
>     ptp_kvm
> diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pvlock.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pvlock.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..d3c391b16d36
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pvlock.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +
> +Paravirtualized lock support for arm64
> +======================================
> +
> +KVM/arm64 provides a hypervisor service call for paravirtualized guests to
> +determine whether a VCPU is currently running or not.
> +
> +A new SMCCC compatible hypercall is defined:
> +
> +* ARM_SMCCC_VENDOR_HYP_KVM_PV_LOCK_FUNC_ID:   0xC6000002
> +
> +ARM_SMCCC_VENDOR_HYP_KVM_PV_LOCK_FUNC_ID
> +
> +    ============= ========    ==========================================
> +    Function ID:  (uint32)    0xC6000002
> +    Return value: (int64)     IPA of the pv lock data structure for this
> +                              VCPU. On failure:
> +                              NOT_SUPPORTED (-1)
> +    ============= ========    ==========================================
> +
> +The IPA returned by PV_LOCK_PREEMPTED should be mapped by the guest as normal
> +memory with inner and outer write back caching attributes, in the inner
> +shareable domain.
> +
> +PV_LOCK_PREEMPTED returns the structure for the calling VCPU.
> +
> +PV lock state
> +-------------
> +
> +The structure pointed to by the PV_LOCK_PREEMPTED hypercall is as follows:
> +
> ++-----------+-------------+-------------+---------------------------------+
> +| Field     | Byte Length | Byte Offset | Description                     |
> ++===========+=============+=============+=================================+
> +| preempted |      8      |      0      | Indicate if the VCPU that owns  |
> +|           |             |             | this struct is running or not.  |
> +|           |             |             | Non-zero values mean the VCPU   |
> +|           |             |             | has been preempted. Zero means  |
> +|           |             |             | the VCPU is not preempted.      |
> ++-----------+-------------+-------------+---------------------------------+
> +
> +The preempted field will be updated to 1 by the hypervisor prior to scheduling
> +a VCPU. When the VCPU is scheduled out, the preempted field will be updated
> +to 0 by the hypervisor.

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-07 18:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-04  6:20 [v2 0/6] KVM: arm64: implement vcpu_is_preempted check Usama Arif
2022-11-04  6:21 ` [v2 1/6] KVM: arm64: Document PV-lock interface Usama Arif
2022-11-07 17:56   ` Punit Agrawal [this message]
2022-11-07 18:05     ` Usama Arif
2022-11-04  6:21 ` [v2 2/6] KVM: arm64: Add SMCCC paravirtualised lock calls Usama Arif
2022-11-07 17:58   ` Punit Agrawal
2022-11-07 18:08     ` Usama Arif
2022-11-04  6:21 ` [v2 3/6] KVM: arm64: Support pvlock preempted via shared structure Usama Arif
2022-11-07 18:02   ` Punit Agrawal
2022-11-07 18:09     ` Usama Arif
2022-11-04  6:21 ` [v2 4/6] KVM: arm64: Provide VCPU attributes for PV lock Usama Arif
2022-11-04  6:21 ` [v2 5/6] KVM: arm64: Support the VCPU preemption check Usama Arif
2022-11-04  6:21 ` [v2 6/6] KVM: selftests: add tests for PV time specific hypercall Usama Arif
2022-11-04  9:02 ` [v2 0/6] KVM: arm64: implement vcpu_is_preempted check Marc Zyngier
2022-11-06 16:35 ` Marc Zyngier
2022-11-07 12:00   ` [External] " Usama Arif
2022-11-18  0:20     ` Marc Zyngier
2022-11-24 13:55       ` Usama Arif
2022-12-05 13:43         ` Usama Arif
2023-01-17 10:50           ` Usama Arif
2022-11-07 18:24 ` Punit Agrawal
2022-11-09 19:38   ` Usama Arif

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