Re: Design doc of adding ACPI support for arm64 on Xen - version 2

[Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com>]

Hi Shannon,

Just some clarification questions.

On 07/08/15 03:11, Shannon Zhao wrote:
> 3. Dom0 gets grant table and event channel irq information
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> As said above, we assign the hypervisor_id be "XenVMM" to tell Dom0 that
> it runs on Xen hypervisor.
> 
> For grant table, add two new HVM_PARAMs: HVM_PARAM_GNTTAB_START_ADDRESS
> and HVM_PARAM_GNTTAB_SIZE.
> 
> For event channel irq, reuse HVM_PARAM_CALLBACK_IRQ and add a new
> delivery type:
> val[63:56] == 3: val[15:8] is flag: val[7:0] is a PPI (ARM and ARM64
> only)

Can you describe the content of flag?

> When constructing Dom0 in Xen, save these values. Then Dom0 could get
> them through hypercall HVMOP_get_param.
> 
> 4. Map MMIO regions
> -------------------
> Register a bus_notifier for platform and amba bus in Linux. Add a new
> XENMAPSPACE "XENMAPSPACE_dev_mmio". Within the register, check if the
> device is newly added, then call hypercall XENMEM_add_to_physmap to map
> the mmio regions.
> 
> 5. Route device interrupts to Dom0
> ----------------------------------
> Route all the SPI interrupts to Dom0 before Dom0 booting.

Not all the SPI will be routed to DOM0. Some are used by Xen and should
never be used by any guest. I have in mind the UART and SMMU interrupts.

You will have to find away to skip them nicely. Note that not all the
IRQs used by Xen are properly registered when we build DOM0 (see the SMMU).

Regards,

-- 
Julien Grall