[PATCH v4 00/10] arm64: Stolen time support

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This series add support for paravirtualized time for arm64 guests and
KVM hosts following the specification in Arm's document DEN 0057A:

https://developer.arm.com/docs/den0057/a

It implements support for stolen time, allowing the guest to
identify time when it is forcibly not executing.

It doesn't implement support for Live Physical Time (LPT) as there are
some concerns about the overheads and approach in the above
specification, and I expect an updated version of the specification to
be released soon with just the stolen time parts.

NOTE: Patches 8 and 9 will conflict with Mark Rutland's series[1] cleaning
up the SMCCC conduit. I do feel that the addition of an _invoke() call
makes a number of call sites cleaner and it should be possible to
integrate both this and Mark's other cleanups.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20190809132245.43505-1-mark.rutland@xxxxxxx/

Also available as a git tree:
git://linux-arm.org/linux-sp.git stolen_time/v4

Changes from v3:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190821153656.33429-1-steven.price@xxxxxxx/
 * There's no longer a PV_TIME device, instead there are attributes on
   the VCPU. This allows the stolen time structures to be places
   arbitrarily by user space (subject to 64 byte alignment).
 * Split documentation between information on the hypercalls and the
   attributes on the VCPU
 * Fixed the type of SMCCC functions to return long not int

Changes from v2:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190819140436.12207-1-steven.price@xxxxxxx/
 * Switched from using gfn_to_hva_cache to a new macro kvm_put_guest()
   that can provide the single-copy atomicity required (on arm64). This
   macro is added in patch 4.
 * Tidied up the locking for kvm_update_stolen_time().
   pagefault_disable() was unnecessary and the caller didn't need to
   take kvm->srcu as the function does it itself.
 * Removed struct kvm_arch_pvtime from the arm implementation, replaced
   instead with inline static functions which are empty for arm.
 * Fixed a few checkpatch --strict warnings.

Changes from v1:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190802145017.42543-1-steven.price@xxxxxxx/
 * Host kernel no longer allocates the stolen time structure, instead it
   is allocated by user space. This means the save/restore functionality
   can be removed.
 * Refactored the code so arm has stub implementations and to avoid
   initcall
 * Rebased to pick up Documentation/{virt->virtual} change
 * Bunch of typo fixes

Christoffer Dall (1):
  KVM: arm/arm64: Factor out hypercall handling from PSCI code

Steven Price (9):
  KVM: arm64: Document PV-time interface
  KVM: arm64: Implement PV_FEATURES call
  KVM: Implement kvm_put_guest()
  KVM: arm64: Support stolen time reporting via shared structure
  KVM: Allow kvm_device_ops to be const
  KVM: arm64: Provide VCPU attributes for stolen time
  arm/arm64: Provide a wrapper for SMCCC 1.1 calls
  arm/arm64: Make use of the SMCCC 1.1 wrapper
  arm64: Retrieve stolen time as paravirtualized guest

 Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pvtime.txt   |  64 ++++++++++
 Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vcpu.txt |  14 +++
 arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h         |  26 +++++
 arch/arm/kvm/Makefile                   |   2 +-
 arch/arm/kvm/handle_exit.c              |   2 +-
 arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-bugs.c              |  13 +--
 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h       |  30 ++++-
 arch/arm64/include/asm/paravirt.h       |   9 +-
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pvclock-abi.h    |  17 +++
 arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h       |   2 +
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c          |  80 +++++--------
 arch/arm64/kernel/paravirt.c            | 148 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/arm64/kernel/time.c                |   3 +
 arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig                  |   1 +
 arch/arm64/kvm/Makefile                 |   2 +
 arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c                  |   9 ++
 arch/arm64/kvm/handle_exit.c            |   4 +-
 include/kvm/arm_hypercalls.h            |  43 +++++++
 include/kvm/arm_psci.h                  |   2 +-
 include/linux/arm-smccc.h               |  58 ++++++++++
 include/linux/cpuhotplug.h              |   1 +
 include/linux/kvm_host.h                |  26 ++++-
 include/linux/kvm_types.h               |   2 +
 include/uapi/linux/kvm.h                |   2 +
 virt/kvm/arm/arm.c                      |  11 ++
 virt/kvm/arm/hypercalls.c               |  68 +++++++++++
 virt/kvm/arm/psci.c                     |  84 +-------------
 virt/kvm/arm/pvtime.c                   | 124 ++++++++++++++++++++
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c                     |   6 +-
 29 files changed, 699 insertions(+), 154 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pvtime.txt
 create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/pvclock-abi.h
 create mode 100644 include/kvm/arm_hypercalls.h
 create mode 100644 virt/kvm/arm/hypercalls.c
 create mode 100644 virt/kvm/arm/pvtime.c

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2.20.1

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