[PATCH v4 00/14] Drivers for gunyah hypervisor

Elliot Berman
2022-09-28T19:57:12Z

Gunyah is a Type-1 hypervisor independent of any
high-level OS kernel, and runs in a higher CPU privilege level. It does
not depend on any lower-privileged OS kernel/code for its core
functionality. This increases its security and can support a much smaller
trusted computing base than a Type-2 hypervisor.

Gunyah is an open source hypervisor. The source repo is available at
https://github.com/quic/gunyah-hypervisor.

The diagram below shows the architecture.

::

VM A VM B
+-----+ +-----+ | +-----+ +-----+ +-----+
| | | | | | | | | | |
EL0 | APP | | APP | | | APP | | APP | | APP |
| | | | | | | | | | |
+-----+ +-----+ | +-----+ +-----+ +-----+
---------------------|-------------------------
+--------------+ | +----------------------+
| | | | |
EL1 | Linux Kernel | | |Linux kernel/Other OS | ...
| | | | |
+--------------+ | +----------------------+
--------hvc/smc------|------hvc/smc------------
+----------------------------------------+
| |
EL2 | Gunyah Hypervisor |
| |
+----------------------------------------+

Gunyah provides these following features.

- Threads and Scheduling: The scheduler schedules virtual CPUs (VCPUs) on
physical CPUs and enables time-sharing of the CPUs.
- Memory Management: Gunyah tracks memory ownership and use of all memory
under its control. Memory partitioning between VMs is a fundamental
security feature.
- Interrupt Virtualization: All interrupts are handled in the hypervisor
and routed to the assigned VM.
- Inter-VM Communication: There are several different mechanisms provided
for communicating between VMs.
- Device Virtualization: Para-virtualization of devices is supported using
inter-VM communication. Low level system features and devices such as
interrupt controllers are supported with emulation where required.

This series adds the basic framework for detecting that Linux is running
under Gunyah as a virtual machine, communication with the Gunyah Resource
Manager, and a tty driver to demonstrate end-to-end use case of communicating
with RM. Presently, the TTY driver is only capable of behaving as a loopback
device: data sent to ttyGH0 shows up in ttyGH1 and vice versa. More Gunyah
consoles can be exposed as Linux learns about other VMs running in Gunyah.
In a future series, I'll introduce a Gunyah VM loader which can load and run
VMs. This loader will follow the design philosophy of the /dev/kvm.

Changes in v4:
- Tidied up documentation throughout based on questions/feedback received
- Switched message queue implementation to use mailboxes
- Renamed "gunyah_device" as "gunyah_resource"

Changes in v3: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220811214107.1074343-1-quic_eberman@quicinc.com/
- /Maintained/Supported/ in MAINTAINERS
- Tidied up documentation throughout based on questions/feedback received
- Moved hypercalls into arch/arm64/gunyah/; following hyper-v's implementation
- Drop opaque typedefs
- Move sysfs nodes under /sys/hypervisor/gunyah/
- Moved Gunyah console driver to drivers/tty/
- Reworked gunyah_device design to drop the Gunyah bus.

Changes in v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220801211240.597859-1-quic_eberman@quicinc.com/
- DT bindings clean up
- Switch hypercalls to follow SMCCC

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220223233729.1571114-1-quic_eberman@quicinc.com/

Elliot Berman (14):
docs: gunyah: Introduce Gunyah Hypervisor
dt-bindings: Add binding for gunyah hypervisor
gunyah: Common types and error codes for Gunyah hypercalls
arm64: smccc: Include alternative-macros.h
virt: gunyah: Add hypercalls to identify Gunyah
virt: gunyah: Add sysfs nodes
mailbox: Allow direct registration to a channel
virt: gunyah: msgq: Add hypercalls to send and receive messages
mailbox: Add Gunyah message queue mailbox
gunyah: sysfs: Add node to describe supported features
gunyah: rsc_mgr: Add resource manager RPC core
gunyah: rsc_mgr: Add RPC for console services
gunyah: rsc_mgr: Add auxiliary devices for console
tty: gunyah: Add tty console driver for RM Console Services

.../ABI/testing/sysfs-hypervisor-gunyah | 30 +
.../bindings/firmware/gunyah-hypervisor.yaml | 87 +++
Documentation/virt/gunyah/index.rst | 114 ++++
Documentation/virt/gunyah/message-queue.rst | 52 ++
Documentation/virt/index.rst | 1 +
MAINTAINERS | 15 +
arch/arm64/Kbuild | 1 +
arch/arm64/gunyah/Makefile | 2 +
arch/arm64/gunyah/hypercall.c | 104 +++
drivers/mailbox/Kconfig | 10 +
drivers/mailbox/Makefile | 2 +
drivers/mailbox/gunyah-msgq.c | 232 +++++++
drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c | 96 ++-
drivers/tty/Kconfig | 8 +
drivers/tty/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/tty/gunyah_tty.c | 409 ++++++++++++
drivers/virt/Kconfig | 2 +
drivers/virt/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/virt/gunyah/Kconfig | 30 +
drivers/virt/gunyah/Makefile | 5 +
drivers/virt/gunyah/rsc_mgr.c | 629 ++++++++++++++++++
drivers/virt/gunyah/rsc_mgr.h | 56 ++
drivers/virt/gunyah/rsc_mgr_rpc.c | 151 +++++
drivers/virt/gunyah/sysfs.c | 86 +++
include/asm-generic/gunyah.h | 115 ++++
include/linux/arm-smccc.h | 1 +
include/linux/gunyah.h | 67 ++
include/linux/gunyah_rsc_mgr.h | 42 ++
include/linux/mailbox_client.h | 1 +
29 files changed, 2322 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-hypervisor-gunyah
create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/gunyah-hypervisor.yaml
create mode 100644 Documentation/virt/gunyah/index.rst
create mode 100644 Documentation/virt/gunyah/message-queue.rst
create mode 100644 arch/arm64/gunyah/Makefile
create mode 100644 arch/arm64/gunyah/hypercall.c
create mode 100644 drivers/mailbox/gunyah-msgq.c
create mode 100644 drivers/tty/gunyah_tty.c
create mode 100644 drivers/virt/gunyah/Kconfig
create mode 100644 drivers/virt/gunyah/Makefile
create mode 100644 drivers/virt/gunyah/rsc_mgr.c
create mode 100644 drivers/virt/gunyah/rsc_mgr.h
create mode 100644 drivers/virt/gunyah/rsc_mgr_rpc.c
create mode 100644 drivers/virt/gunyah/sysfs.c
create mode 100644 include/asm-generic/gunyah.h
create mode 100644 include/linux/gunyah.h
create mode 100644 include/linux/gunyah_rsc_mgr.h

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