Hello! The Software Delegated Exception Interface (SDEI) is an ARM specification for registering callbacks from the platform firmware into the OS. This is intended to be used to implement firmware-first RAS notifications, but also supports vendor-defined events and binding IRQs as events. The document is here: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.den0054a/ARM_DEN0054A_Software_Delegated_Exception_Interface.pdf The major change in v2 is the way SDEI is exposed to KVM's user space. Now the KVM SDEI capability has to be enabled to cause the SDEI portion of the SMC-CC range to be handed to userspace as an 'hypercall' exit. This is intended to be extended with any other SMC-CC ranges that we want handled by user space. This series (juggles some registers with KVM+VHE, then) adds a DT binding to trigger probing of the interface and support for the SDEI API. The ACPI spec has the necessary parts to enable this to be used as a GHES notification, I will post the patches to wire this up once the acpica support has been merged [0]. SDEI runs between adjacent exception levels, so events will always be delivered to EL2 if firmware is at EL3. For VHE hosts we run the SDEI event handler behind KVM's back with all exceptions masked. Once the handler has done its work we return to the appropriate vbar+irq entry. This allows KVM to world-switch and deliver any signals sent by the handler to Qemu/kvmtool. We do the same thing if we interrupt host EL0. If we interrupted code with interrupts masked, we use a different API call to return to the interrupted context. What about non-VHE KVM? If you don't have VHE support and boot at EL2, the kernel drops to EL1. This driver will print an error message then give up. This is because events would still be delivered to EL2 hitting either KVM, or the hyp-stub. Supporting this is complicated, but because the main use-case is RAS, and ARM v8.2's RAS extensions imply v8.1's Virtual Host Extensions, we can assume all platforms with SDEI will support VHE too. (I have some ideas on how to support non-VHE if it turns out to be needed). Running the event handler behind VHE-KVM's back has some side effects: The event handler will blindly use any registers that are shared between the host and guest. The two that I think matter are TPIDR_EL1, and the debug state. The guest may have set MDSCR_EL1 so debug exceptions must remain masked. The guest's TPIDR_EL1 will be used by the event handler if it accesses per-cpu variables. This needs fixing. The first part of this series juggles KVMs use of TPIDR_EL2 so that we share it with the host on VHE systems. An equivalent change for 32bit is (still) on my todo list. (the alternative to this is to have a parody world switch in the SDEI event handler, but this would mean special casing interrupted guests, and be an ABI link to KVM.) Is this another begins-with-S RAS mechanism for arm64? Yes. Why? Any notification delivered as an exception will overwrite the exception registers. This is fatal for the running thread if it happens during entry.S's kernel_enter or kernel_exit. Instead of adding masking and routing controls, events are delivered to a registered address at a fixed exception level and don't change the exception registers when delivered. This series can be retrieved from: git://linux-arm.org/linux-jm.git -b sdei/v2/base Questions and contradictions welcome! Thanks, James [0] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9878175/ Changes since v1: * Bug-fixes: * get_context is guaranteed to succeed, but magically fails if the returned register contained an error code... * sdei_event_register() allocates memory, pass gfp_t flags in to allow use during initcalls that have irqs masked. * Made the cpu_copy_el2regs() 'have I been patched' test re-store 0 in do_copyregs, just in case the compiler puts do_copyregs on the stack. * Review: * Have a CAP that needs enabling to pass SDEI HVC range to user space * Populate kvm_run structure * Update documents... * Described IRQ use-case in binding doc, referenced SMC-CC * Moved sdei dt-node under /firmware * Added code to discover the node and create a platform device, (sdei_init() may look funny, it gets extended to do ACPI too once the acpica updates are merged) * To aid EL2/HYP handling to ease any future non-vhe support: * Moved asm into sdei-entry.S * Moved sdei_arch_get_entry_point() into C code * Changed entry point to unsigned long * Made number of clobbered registers a variable James Morse (11): KVM: arm64: Store vcpu on the stack during __guest_enter() KVM: arm/arm64: Convert kvm_host_cpu_state to a static per-cpu allocation KVM: arm64: Change hyp_panic()s dependency on tpidr_el2 arm64: alternatives: use tpidr_el2 on VHE hosts KVM: arm64: Stop save/restoring host tpidr_el1 on VHE Docs: dt: add devicetree binding for describing arm64 SDEI firmware firmware: arm_sdei: Add driver for Software Delegated Exceptions arm64: kernel: Add arch-specific SDEI entry code and CPU masking firmware: arm_sdei: Add support for CPU and system power states firmware: arm_sdei: add support for CPU private events KVM: arm64: Allow user-space to claim guest SMC-CC ranges for SDEI .../devicetree/bindings/arm/firmware/sdei.txt | 42 + Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 12 +- arch/arm64/Kconfig | 2 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | 8 + arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 8 + arch/arm64/include/asm/percpu.h | 11 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h | 1 + arch/arm64/include/asm/sdei.h | 48 + arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile | 1 + arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 2 + arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 23 + arch/arm64/kernel/sdei-entry.S | 92 ++ arch/arm64/kernel/sdei.c | 119 +++ arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c | 7 + arch/arm64/kvm/handle_exit.c | 28 +- arch/arm64/kvm/hyp-init.S | 4 + arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/entry.S | 10 +- arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/hyp-entry.S | 18 +- arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c | 25 +- arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/sysreg-sr.c | 16 +- arch/arm64/mm/proc.S | 8 + drivers/firmware/Kconfig | 8 + drivers/firmware/Makefile | 1 + drivers/firmware/arm_sdei.c | 1052 ++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/cpuhotplug.h | 1 + include/linux/sdei.h | 104 ++ include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 1 + include/uapi/linux/sdei.h | 91 ++ virt/kvm/arm/arm.c | 47 +- 29 files changed, 1740 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/firmware/sdei.txt create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/sdei.h create mode 100644 arch/arm64/kernel/sdei-entry.S create mode 100644 arch/arm64/kernel/sdei.c create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/arm_sdei.c create mode 100644 include/linux/sdei.h create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/sdei.h -- 2.13.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
