[PATCH 0/7] KVM: arm-vgic: Implement save/restore of VGIC state

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This patch series adds support for user space save/restore of the VGIC
state.  Instead of expanding the ONE_REG interface, which works on
VCPUs, we first introduce support for the new KVM device control API and
the VGIC.  Now, instead of calling KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP, user space can
call KVM_CREATE_DEVICE and perform operations on the device fd, such as
KVM_SET_DEVICE_ATTR to set a device attribute.

We leverage the KVM_{SET/GET}_DEVICE_ATTR API to export the state of the
VGIC to user space.  Instead of coming up with our own custom format for
exporting the VGIC state, we simply export all the state visible to an
emulated guest, which must contain the full GIC state to provide
save/restore of the GIC state for power management purposes.  This
further provides the benefit of being able to re-use the MMIO emulation
code for the distributor for save/restore.

However, the need to save/restore cpu-specific state demands that user
space can save/restore state accessible through the CPU interface, and
we therefore add an emulation interface for the CPU-specific interface.

This is considered a first attempt, and I am not married to the device
control API.  If there are good technical arguments to take another
approach, I am of course willing to discuss this.  However, my attempts
with the ONE_REG interface did not look very nice.

  [ WARINING: The patch set core functionality is completely untested;
  the basic KVM system has been briefly tested on TC2 and it doesn't
  seem like I've broken existing functionality. ]

I wanted to get this out early to get feedback on the overall API and
idea, and I'm writing some user QEMU for the user space side to test
the new functionality meanwhile.

Patches are against kvm-arm-next and also available here:
git://git.linaro.org/people/cdall/linux-kvm-arm.git vgic-migrate

Christoffer Dall (7):
  KVM: arm-vgic: Support KVM_CREATE_DEVICE for VGIC
  KVM: arm-vgic: Set base addr through device API
  irqchip: arm-gic: Define additional MMIO offsets and masks
  KVM: arm-vgic: Make vgic mmio functions more generic
  KVM: arm-vgic: Add vgic reg access from dev attr
  KVM: arm-vgic: Add GICD_SPENDSGIR and GICD_CPENDSGIR handlers
  KVM: arm-vgic: Support CPU interface reg access

 Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt              |    5 +-
 Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic.txt |   52 +++
 arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h                |    8 +
 arch/arm/kvm/arm.c                             |    3 +-
 include/kvm/arm_vgic.h                         |    2 +-
 include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic.h                |   14 +
 include/linux/kvm_host.h                       |    1 +
 include/uapi/linux/kvm.h                       |    1 +
 virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c                            |  452 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c                            |    4 +
 10 files changed, 522 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic.txt

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