Re: [Android-virt] [PATCH v4 05/10] ARM: KVM: Inject IRQs and FIQs from userspace

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On Aug 9, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:

> On 08/06/2011 01:39 PM, Christoffer Dall wrote:
>> Userspace can inject IRQs and FIQs through the KVM_IRQ_LINE VM ioctl.
>> This ioctl is used since the sematics are in fact two lines that can be
>> either raised or lowered on the VCPU - the IRQ and FIQ lines.
>> 
>> KVM needs to know which VCPU it must operate on and whether the FIQ or
>> IRQ line is raised/lowered. Hence both pieces of information is packed
>> in the kvm_irq_level->irq field. The irq fild value will be:
>>   IRQ: vcpu_index * 2
>>   FIQ: (vcpu_index * 2) + 1
>> 
>> This is documented in Documentation/kvm/api.txt.
>> 
>> The effect of the ioctl is simply to simply raise/lower the
>> corresponding virt_irq field on the VCPU struct, which will cause the
>> world-switch code to raise/lower virtual interrupts when running the
>> guest on next switch. The wait_for_interrupt flag is also cleared for
>> raised IRQs causing an idle VCPU to become active again.
> 
> Note x86 starts out with a default configuration and allows updating it 
> via KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING.  You may need this in the future if you decide 
> to implement an irq controller in the kernel.

Will probably happen some time. Noted.

> 
>> +static int kvm_arch_vm_ioctl_irq_line(struct kvm *kvm,
>> +				      struct kvm_irq_level *irq_level)
>> +{
>> +	u32 mask;
>> +	unsigned int vcpu_idx;
>> +	struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu;
>> +
>> +	vcpu_idx = irq_level->irq / 2;
>> +	if (vcpu_idx>= KVM_MAX_VCPUS)
>> +		return -EINVAL;
>> +
>> +	vcpu = kvm_get_vcpu(kvm, vcpu_idx);
>> +	if (!vcpu)
>> +		return -EINVAL;
>> +
>> +	switch (irq_level->irq % 2) {
>> +	case KVM_ARM_IRQ_LINE:
>> +		mask = HCR_VI;
>> +		break;
>> +	case KVM_ARM_FIQ_LINE:
>> +		mask = HCR_VF;
>> +		break;
>> +	default:
>> +		return -EINVAL;
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	trace_kvm_irq_line(irq_level->irq % 2, irq_level->level, vcpu_idx);
> 
> Please reuse trace_kvm_set_irq().  You can decode vcpu/type in a 
> trace-cmd plugin.

OK

> 
>> +
>> +	if (irq_level->level) {
>> +		vcpu->arch.virt_irq |= mask;
>> +		vcpu->arch.wait_for_interrupts = 0;
>> +	} else
>> +		vcpu->arch.virt_irq&= ~mask;
>> +
> 
> This seems to be non-smp-safe?  Do you need atomic ops and barriers 
> here?  And a wakeup?

The whole thing is not SMP tested yet, so I took some shortcuts. I only recently got hold of a SMP model and SMP support will be a focus area for the next series. Thanks for pin-pointing this though.

> 
> Unlike KVM_INTERRUPT, KVM_IRQ_LINE is designed to be used asynchronously 
> wrt the vcpu.
> 
>> +	return 0;
>> +}
>> +
>>  long kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl(struct file *filp,
>>  			 unsigned int ioctl, unsigned long arg)
>>  {
>> @@ -312,8 +349,21 @@ int kvm_vm_ioctl_get_dirty_log(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_dirty_log *log)
>>  long kvm_arch_vm_ioctl(struct file *filp,
>>  		       unsigned int ioctl, unsigned long arg)
>>  {
>> -	printk(KERN_ERR "kvm_arch_vm_ioctl: Unsupported ioctl (%d)\n", ioctl);
>> -	return -EINVAL;
>> +	struct kvm *kvm = filp->private_data;
>> +	void __user *argp = (void __user *)arg;
>> +
>> +	switch (ioctl) {
>> +	case KVM_IRQ_LINE: {
>> +		struct kvm_irq_level irq_event;
>> +
>> +		if (copy_from_user(&irq_event, argp, sizeof irq_event))
>> +			return -EFAULT;
>> +		return kvm_arch_vm_ioctl_irq_line(kvm,&irq_event);
>> +	}
>> +	default:
>> +		kvm_err(-EINVAL, "Unsupported ioctl (%d)", ioctl);
> 
> Please remove for the final code, we don't want a user spamming the 
> kernel log.

OK. Good point.

> 
>> +		return -EINVAL;
>> +	}
>>  }
>> 
>> 
> 
> -- 
> error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
> 
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