From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org,
"Paul Mackerras" <paulus@samba.org>,
"Cédric Le Goater" <clg@kaod.org>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 11/16] KVM: introduce a 'mmap' method for KVM devices
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 10:22:30 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190226232230.GV6872@umbus.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e1a35077-8c0f-313c-15d0-0483956bfcd6@redhat.com>
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 01:52:39PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 25/02/19 11:57, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> > Hello Paolo,
> >
> > On 2/25/19 4:33 AM, David Gibson wrote:
> >> On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 12:28:35PM +0100, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> >>> Some KVM devices will want to handle special mappings related to the
> >>> underlying HW. For instance, the XIVE interrupt controller of the
> >>> POWER9 processor has MMIO pages for thread interrupt management and
> >>> for interrupt source control that need to be exposed to the guest when
> >>> the OS has the required support.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
> >>
> >> Ah, when I suggested mmap() on the base device fd, I hadn't realized
> >> there wasn't a facility for that yet.
> >>
> >> Have you discussed this with Paolo?
> >
> > Not yet.
> >
> >> We'll need some core KVM buy in to merge this.
> >
> > Here is an extension of the KVM device to allow special mappings.
> > Something we would need for the support of the POWER9 XIVE interrupt
> > controller.
> >
> > There are two MMIOs we need to expose to the guest :
> >
> > 1. HW MMIO controlling of the interrupt presenter registers (TIMA)
> > 2. HW MMIO of the interrupt sources for interrupt management (ESB)
> >
> > The TIMA could have been exposed with a page offset in the vCPU mapping
> > but as it only makes sense when the XIVE interrupt mode is active, we
> > chose to use directly the KVM device fd for that. Is that ok ?
> >
> > An alternate solution is to use a device ioctl to allocate an anon fd
> > and do the mapping, but that seems like extra fuss for the same result.
>
> It's okay, it's a natural extension to dev_ops - but thanks for asking
> anyway. :)
Ok, cool.
Given that, do you want to merge directly - since this looks sound
enough, even though the rest of the series needs some polish? Or
would you prefer it to come in via Paulus' tree?
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Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-22 11:28 [PATCH v2 00/16] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: add XIVE native exploitation mode Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-22 11:28 ` [PATCH v2 01/16] powerpc/xive: add OPAL extensions for the XIVE native exploitation support Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-24 23:42 ` David Gibson
2019-02-25 3:50 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-02-25 10:11 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-26 4:21 ` David Gibson
2019-03-12 18:25 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-22 11:28 ` [PATCH v2 02/16] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: add a new KVM device for the XIVE native exploitation mode Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-25 0:08 ` David Gibson
2019-03-12 11:14 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-22 11:28 ` [PATCH v2 03/16] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: XIVE: introduce a new capability KVM_CAP_PPC_IRQ_XIVE Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-25 0:35 ` David Gibson
2019-02-25 4:59 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-03-12 14:10 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-03-12 14:03 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-03-13 4:05 ` David Gibson
2019-02-25 4:35 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-03-13 8:34 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-03-14 2:29 ` David Gibson
2019-02-22 11:28 ` [PATCH v2 04/16] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: XIVE: add a control to initialize a source Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-25 2:10 ` David Gibson
2019-02-26 4:25 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-02-26 23:20 ` David Gibson
2019-03-12 15:19 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-03-14 2:15 ` David Gibson
2019-02-25 5:30 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-02-22 11:28 ` [PATCH v2 05/16] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: XIVE: add a control to configure " Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-25 2:21 ` David Gibson
2019-02-22 11:28 ` [PATCH v2 06/16] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: XIVE: add controls for the EQ configuration Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-25 2:39 ` David Gibson
2019-03-12 17:00 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-03-13 4:03 ` David Gibson
2019-03-13 8:46 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-03-14 3:29 ` David Gibson
2019-02-26 5:24 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-03-13 9:40 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-03-14 2:32 ` David Gibson
2019-03-14 7:11 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-03-15 0:29 ` David Gibson
2019-02-22 11:28 ` [PATCH v2 07/16] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: XIVE: add a global reset control Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-25 2:43 ` David Gibson
2019-02-22 11:28 ` [PATCH v2 08/16] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: XIVE: add a control to sync the sources Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-25 2:45 ` David Gibson
2019-02-22 11:28 ` [PATCH v2 09/16] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: XIVE: add a control to dirty the XIVE EQ pages Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-25 2:53 ` David Gibson
2019-03-13 11:48 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-03-14 2:33 ` David Gibson
2019-02-22 11:28 ` [PATCH v2 10/16] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: XIVE: add get/set accessors for the VP XIVE state Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-25 3:31 ` David Gibson
2019-03-13 13:19 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-03-14 3:09 ` David Gibson
2019-03-14 7:08 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-22 11:28 ` [PATCH v2 11/16] KVM: introduce a 'mmap' method for KVM devices Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-25 3:33 ` David Gibson
2019-02-25 10:57 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-26 12:52 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-02-26 23:22 ` David Gibson [this message]
2019-02-22 11:28 ` [PATCH v2 12/16] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: XIVE: add a TIMA mapping Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-25 3:42 ` David Gibson
2019-02-22 11:28 ` [PATCH v2 13/16] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: XIVE: add a mapping for the source ESB pages Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-25 3:47 ` David Gibson
2019-02-22 11:28 ` [PATCH v2 14/16] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: XIVE: add passthrough support Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-25 4:13 ` David Gibson
2019-02-22 11:28 ` [PATCH v2 15/16] KVM: introduce a KVM_DESTROY_DEVICE ioctl Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-25 4:15 ` David Gibson
2019-03-13 8:02 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-03-15 17:57 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-02-22 11:28 ` [PATCH v2 16/16] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: XIVE: clear the vCPU interrupt presenters Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-25 4:18 ` David Gibson
2019-03-13 8:17 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-03-14 2:26 ` David Gibson
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