[RESEND RFCv2 0/1] x86: allow to notify host about guest entering s2idle

Grzegorz Jaszczyk
2023-02-09T15:21:41Z

<Resend with some extra lists added to the Cc>

According to the mailing list discussion [1] about the preferred approach
for notifying hypervisor/VMM about guest entering s2idle state this RFC was
implemented.

Instead of original hypercall based approach, which involves KVM change [2]
and makes it hypervisor specific, implement different mechanism, which
takes advantage of MMIO/PIO trapping and makes it hypervisor independent.

For the RFCv1 [3]:
Patch #1 extends S2Idle ops by new notify handler which will be invoked as a
very last command before system actually enters S2Idle states. It also allows
to register and use driver specific notification hook which is used in
patch #2.

Patch #2 introduces new driver for virtual PMC, which registers
acpi_s2idle_dev_ops's notify handler. Its implementation is based on an
ACPI _DSM evaluation, which in turn can perform MMIO access and allow to
trap and therefore notify the VMM about guest entering S2Idle state.

For the RFCv2: the patch #1 was dropped as in the meantime Mario Limonciello
introduced a very similar patch [4] which uses s/notify/check and invokes the
callback a bit earlier just before s2idle_entry. Mentioned patch has already
been merged.

This patchset is marked as RFC since patch #2 implements driver for non
existing device "HYPE0001", which ACPI ID was not registered yet.
Furthermore the required registration process [5] will not be started
before getting positive feedback about this patchset.

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-pm/patch/20220609110337.1238762-2-jaz@semihalf.com/
[2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-pm/patch/20220609110337.1238762-3-jaz@semihalf.com/
[3] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-pm/cover/20220707125329.378277-1-jaz@semihalf.com/
[4] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-pm/patch/20220829162953.5947-2-mario.limonciello@amd.com
[5] https://uefi.org/PNP_ACPI_Registry

Grzegorz Jaszczyk (1):
platform/x86: Add virtual PMC driver used for S2Idle

drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig | 7 ++++
drivers/platform/x86/Makefile | 3 ++
drivers/platform/x86/virt_pmc.c | 73 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 83 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/virt_pmc.c

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