Hi, On 17/01/2017 11:20, Marc Zyngier wrote: > Do a braindump of the way things are supposed to work. > > Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v4.c | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 59 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v4.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v4.c > index 36ccaac..8b2d9ee 100644 > --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v4.c > +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v4.c > @@ -22,6 +22,65 @@ > > #include <linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v4.h> > > +/* > + * WARNING: The blurb below assumes that you understand the > + * intricacies of GICv3, GICv4, and how a guest's view of a GICv3 gets > + * translated into GICv4 comands. So it effectively targets at most s/comands/commands > + * two individuals. You know who you are. > + * > + * The core GICv4 code is designed to *avoid* exposing too much of the > + * core GIC code (that would in turn leak into the hypervisor code), > + * and instead provide a hypervisor agnostic interface to the HW (of > + * course, the astute reader will quickly realize that hypervisor > + * agnostic actually means KVM-specific - what were you thinking?). > + * > + * In order to achieve a modicum of isolation, we try to hide most of > + * the GICv4 "stuff" behind normal irqchip operations: > + * > + * - Any guest-visible VLPI is backed by a Linux interrupt (and a > + * physical LPI which gets deconfigured unmapped? when the guest maps the > + * VLPI). This allows the same DevID/Event pair to be either mapped s/Event/Eventid > + * to the LPI (host) or the VLPI (guest). > + * > + * - Enabling/disabling a VLPI is done by issuing mask/unmask calls. > + * > + * - Guest INT/CLEAR commands are implemented through > + * irq_set_irqchip_state(). does it also work for vLPI? The spec mentions ICID/pINTID only. > + * > + * - The *bizarre* stuff (mapping/unmapping an interrupt to a VLPI, or > + * issuing an INV after changing a priority) gets shoved into the > + * irq_set_vcpu_affinity() method. While this is quite horrible > + * (let's face it, this is the irqchip version of an ioctl), it > + * confines the crap to a single location. And map/unmap really is > + * about setting the affinity of a VLPI to a vcpu, so only INV is > + * majorly out of place. So there. I would put the above paragraph before the enable/disable and guest INT/CLEAR bullet. What is difficult to understand is there is also another mapping between the vPE and the physical RDist which is handled by the below irq_set_affinity. > + * > + * But handling VLPIs is only one side of the job of the GICv4 > + * code. The other (darker) side is to take care of the doorbell > + * interrupts which are delivered when a VLPI targeting a non-running > + * vcpu is being made pending. > + * > + * The choice made here is that each vcpu (VPE in old northern GICv4 > + * dialect) gets a single doorbell s/doorbell/doorbell LPI? , no matter how many interrupts are > + * targeting it. This has a nice property, which is that the interrupt > + * becomes a handle for the VPE, and that the hypervisor code can > + * manipulate it through the normal interrupt API: > + * > + * - VMs (or rather the VM abstraction that matters to the GIC) > + * contain an irq domain where each interrupt maps to a VPE. In > + * turn, this domain stis on top of the normal LPI allocator, and a s/stis/sits > + * specially crafted irq_chip implementation. > + * > + * - mask/unmask do what is expected on the doorbell interrupt. > + * > + * - irq_set_affinity is used to move a VPE from one redistributor to > + * another. So that's the odd part for me because I would have imagined set_affinity would have applied to this doorbell LPI and change the affinity of this physical MSI. But as the doorbell MSI embodies the VPE, well this makes sense to me > + * > + * - irq_set_vcpu_affinity once again gets hijacked for the purpose of > + * creating a new sub-API, namely scheduling/descheduling a VPE and > + * performing INVALL operations. So this programs VPROPBASER and VPENDBASER > + */ > + > static struct irq_domain *its_vpe_domain; > > static struct irq_chip its_vcpu_irq_chip = { > Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@xxxxxxxxxx> Eric _______________________________________________ kvmarm mailing list kvmarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/kvmarm