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From: "Liu, Shuo A" <shuo.a.liu@intel.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
	Yu Wang <yu1.wang@intel.com>,
	Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/17] HSM driver for ACRN hypervisor
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 08:24:39 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8235ade4-eb61-aed1-bd9a-9db0134cb64a@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200922114311.38804-1-shuo.a.liu@intel.com>

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On 9/22/2020 19:42, shuo.a.liu@intel.com wrote:
> From: Shuo Liu <shuo.a.liu@intel.com>
> 
> ACRN is a Type 1 reference hypervisor stack, running directly on the bare-metal
> hardware, and is suitable for a variety of IoT and embedded device solutions.
> 
> ACRN implements a hybrid VMM architecture, using a privileged Service VM. The
> Service VM manages the system resources (CPU, memory, etc.) and I/O devices of
> User VMs. Multiple User VMs are supported, with each of them running Linux,
> Android OS or Windows. Both Service VM and User VMs are guest VM.
> 
> Below figure shows the architecture.
> 
>                 Service VM                    User VM
>       +----------------------------+  |  +------------------+
>       |        +--------------+    |  |  |                  |
>       |        |ACRN userspace|    |  |  |                  |
>       |        +--------------+    |  |  |                  |
>       |-----------------ioctl------|  |  |                  |   ...
>       |kernel space   +----------+ |  |  |                  |
>       |               |   HSM    | |  |  | Drivers          |
>       |               +----------+ |  |  |                  |
>       +--------------------|-------+  |  +------------------+
>   +---------------------hypercall----------------------------------------+
>   |                       ACRN Hypervisor                                |
>   +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
>   |                          Hardware                                    |
>   +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
> 
> There is only one Service VM which could run Linux as OS.
> 
> In a typical case, the Service VM will be auto started when ACRN Hypervisor is
> booted. Then the ACRN userspace (an application running in Service VM) could be
> used to start/stop User VMs by communicating with ACRN Hypervisor Service
> Module (HSM).
> 
> ACRN Hypervisor Service Module (HSM) is a middle layer that allows the ACRN
> userspace and Service VM OS kernel to communicate with ACRN Hypervisor
> and manage different User VMs. This middle layer provides the following
> functionalities,
>   - Issues hypercalls to the hypervisor to manage User VMs:
>       * VM/vCPU management
>       * Memory management
>       * Device passthrough
>       * Interrupts injection
>   - I/O requests handling from User VMs.
>   - Exports ioctl through HSM char device.
>   - Exports function calls for other kernel modules
> 
> ACRN is focused on embedded system. So it doesn't support some features.
> E.g.,
>   - ACRN doesn't support VM migration.
>   - ACRN doesn't support vCPU migration.
> 
> This patch set adds the HSM to the Linux kernel.
> 
> The basic ARCN support was merged to upstream already.
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1559108037-18813-3-git-send-email-yakui.zhao@intel.com/
> 
> ChangeLog:
> v4:
>   - Used acrn_dev.this_device directly for dev_*() (Reinette)
>   - Removed the odd usage of {get|put}_device() on &acrn_dev->this_device (Greg)
>   - Removed unused log code. (Greg)
>   - Corrected the return error values. (Greg)
>   - Mentioned that HSM relies hypervisor for sanity check in acrn_dev_ioctl() comments (Greg)
> 
> v3:
>   - Used {get|put}_device() helpers on &acrn_dev->this_device
>   - Moved unused code from front patches to later ones.
>   - Removed self-defined pr_fmt() and dev_fmt()
>   - Provided comments for acrn_vm_list_lock.
> 
> v2:
>   - Removed API version related code. (Dave)
>   - Replaced pr_*() by dev_*(). (Greg)
>   - Used -ENOTTY as the error code of unsupported ioctl. (Greg)
> 
> Shuo Liu (16):
>   docs: acrn: Introduce ACRN
>   x86/acrn: Introduce acrn_{setup, remove}_intr_handler()
>   x86/acrn: Introduce hypercall interfaces
>   virt: acrn: Introduce ACRN HSM basic driver
>   virt: acrn: Introduce VM management interfaces
>   virt: acrn: Introduce an ioctl to set vCPU registers state
>   virt: acrn: Introduce EPT mapping management
>   virt: acrn: Introduce I/O request management
>   virt: acrn: Introduce PCI configuration space PIO accesses combiner
>   virt: acrn: Introduce interfaces for PCI device passthrough
>   virt: acrn: Introduce interrupt injection interfaces
>   virt: acrn: Introduce interfaces to query C-states and P-states
>     allowed by hypervisor
>   virt: acrn: Introduce I/O ranges operation interfaces
>   virt: acrn: Introduce ioeventfd
>   virt: acrn: Introduce irqfd
>   virt: acrn: Introduce an interface for Service VM to control vCPU
> 
> Yin Fengwei (1):
>   x86/acrn: Introduce an API to check if a VM is privileged
> 
>  .../userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst      |   1 +
>  Documentation/virt/acrn/index.rst             |  11 +
>  Documentation/virt/acrn/introduction.rst      |  40 ++
>  Documentation/virt/acrn/io-request.rst        |  97 +++
>  Documentation/virt/index.rst                  |   1 +
>  MAINTAINERS                                   |   9 +
>  arch/x86/include/asm/acrn.h                   |  74 ++
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/acrn.c                    |  35 +-
>  drivers/virt/Kconfig                          |   2 +
>  drivers/virt/Makefile                         |   1 +
>  drivers/virt/acrn/Kconfig                     |  15 +
>  drivers/virt/acrn/Makefile                    |   3 +
>  drivers/virt/acrn/acrn_drv.h                  | 229 +++++++
>  drivers/virt/acrn/hsm.c                       | 437 ++++++++++++
>  drivers/virt/acrn/hypercall.h                 | 254 +++++++
>  drivers/virt/acrn/ioeventfd.c                 | 273 ++++++++
>  drivers/virt/acrn/ioreq.c                     | 645 ++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/virt/acrn/irqfd.c                     | 235 +++++++
>  drivers/virt/acrn/mm.c                        | 305 +++++++++
>  drivers/virt/acrn/vm.c                        | 126 ++++
>  include/uapi/linux/acrn.h                     | 486 +++++++++++++
>  21 files changed, 3278 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/virt/acrn/index.rst
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/virt/acrn/introduction.rst
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/virt/acrn/io-request.rst
>  create mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/acrn.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/virt/acrn/Kconfig
>  create mode 100644 drivers/virt/acrn/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 drivers/virt/acrn/acrn_drv.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/virt/acrn/hsm.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/virt/acrn/hypercall.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/virt/acrn/ioeventfd.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/virt/acrn/ioreq.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/virt/acrn/irqfd.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/virt/acrn/mm.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/virt/acrn/vm.c
>  create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/acrn.h
> 
> 
> base-commit: 18445bf405cb331117bc98427b1ba6f12418ad17
> 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-09-27  0:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-22 11:42 [PATCH v4 00/17] HSM driver for ACRN hypervisor shuo.a.liu
2020-09-22 11:42 ` [PATCH v4 01/17] docs: acrn: Introduce ACRN shuo.a.liu
2020-10-09  1:48   ` Randy Dunlap
2020-10-12  8:50     ` Shuo A Liu
2020-09-22 11:42 ` [PATCH v4 02/17] x86/acrn: Introduce acrn_{setup, remove}_intr_handler() shuo.a.liu
2020-09-27 10:49   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-09-28  3:28     ` Shuo A Liu
2020-09-29 18:01   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-29 20:07     ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-09-29 20:26       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-30  3:02         ` Shuo A Liu
2020-09-22 11:42 ` [PATCH v4 03/17] x86/acrn: Introduce an API to check if a VM is privileged shuo.a.liu
2020-09-30  8:09   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-10-12  8:40     ` Shuo A Liu
2020-09-22 11:42 ` [PATCH v4 04/17] x86/acrn: Introduce hypercall interfaces shuo.a.liu
2020-09-27 10:51   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-09-27 10:53     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-09-28  3:38       ` Shuo A Liu
2020-09-27 15:38     ` Dave Hansen
2020-09-30 11:16       ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-09-30 16:10         ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-09-30 17:13           ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-09-30 19:14             ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-09-30 19:42               ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-09-30 23:58                 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-09-30 19:59               ` Arvind Sankar
2020-09-30 20:01                 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-10-01  0:08                 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-09-30 23:25               ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-09-30 23:38                 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-10-01  0:11                   ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-10-12  8:44               ` Shuo A Liu
2020-10-12 16:49                 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-10-13  2:44                   ` Shuo A Liu
2020-09-30 10:54   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-10-12  8:49     ` Shuo A Liu
2020-09-22 11:42 ` [PATCH v4 05/17] virt: acrn: Introduce ACRN HSM basic driver shuo.a.liu
2020-09-22 11:43 ` [PATCH v4 08/17] virt: acrn: Introduce EPT mapping management shuo.a.liu
2020-09-22 11:43 ` [PATCH v4 10/17] virt: acrn: Introduce PCI configuration space PIO accesses combiner shuo.a.liu
2020-09-22 11:43 ` [PATCH v4 11/17] virt: acrn: Introduce interfaces for PCI device passthrough shuo.a.liu
2020-09-22 11:43 ` [PATCH v4 12/17] virt: acrn: Introduce interrupt injection interfaces shuo.a.liu
2020-09-22 11:43 ` [PATCH v4 14/17] virt: acrn: Introduce I/O ranges operation interfaces shuo.a.liu
2020-09-22 11:43 ` [PATCH v4 16/17] virt: acrn: Introduce irqfd shuo.a.liu
2020-09-22 11:43 ` [PATCH v4 17/17] virt: acrn: Introduce an interface for Service VM to control vCPU shuo.a.liu
2020-09-27 10:44   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-09-28  4:10     ` Shuo A Liu
2020-09-28  5:23       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-09-28  6:33         ` Shuo A Liu
2020-09-27  0:24 ` Liu, Shuo A [this message]
2020-09-27  5:42   ` [PATCH v4 00/17] HSM driver for ACRN hypervisor Greg Kroah-Hartman
     [not found] ` <20200922114311.38804-7-shuo.a.liu@intel.com>
2020-09-27 10:45   ` [PATCH v4 06/17] virt: acrn: Introduce VM management interfaces Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-09-28  3:43     ` Shuo A Liu
2020-09-27 10:47   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-09-28  3:50     ` Shuo A Liu
2020-09-28  5:25       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-09-28  6:29         ` Shuo A Liu
2020-09-28 12:26           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-09-30  2:49             ` Shuo A Liu

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