Re: PCIe passthrough support on ARM

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Hi Edward,
On 02/04/2016 05:53 PM, Edward Cragg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm involved in planning a project for which there is a requirement for PCIe
> passthrough in KVM on ARMv8. We have no hardware to test on at the moment.
> 
> I understand that virtualisation support for ARM is quite young, and it seems
> like support is trickling in at the moment for this sort of thing.
> 
> Is anyone working on PCIe passthrough on ARM platforms who might be able to
> share some insight into what would be required to support this?
Yes I am currently working on this topic at the moment and especially on
ARM PCIe passthrough with MSI enabled. I did not test PCIe passthrough
with legacy INTx (MSI disabled) but this should work already with
upstreamed QEMU and kernel.

With MSI enabled, the code is not upstreamed yet.

I have a QEMU series:

[RFC v2 0/8] KVM PCI/MSI passthrough with mach-virt
(https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@xxxxxxxxxx/msg349574.html)

and a kernel series:
[PATCH 00/10] KVM PCIe/MSI passthrough on ARM/ARM64"
  (https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/1/26/371)

This is functional, tested on v8 AMD HW with a GICv2M (single MSI frame).

This is in an early stage, especially on kernel side since lots of
issues still need to be addressed, especially handling proper IRQ isolation.

What kind of MSI controller do you plan to use?

Hope this helps

Best Regards

Eric

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ed
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