Re: [PATCH v8 00/28] Drivers for gunyah hypervisor

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On 1/9/2023 1:34 PM, Alex Elder wrote:
On 12/19/22 4:58 PM, Elliot Berman wrote:
Gunyah is a Type-1 hypervisor independent of any
high-level OS kernel, and runs in a higher CPU privilege level. It does
not depend on any lower-privileged OS kernel/code for its core
functionality. This increases its security and can support a much smaller
trusted computing base than a Type-2 hypervisor.

Gunyah is an open source hypervisor. The source repo is available at
https://github.com/quic/gunyah-hypervisor.

Can you provide any history about the hypervisor code itself?
Was it publicly reviewed?  Has it been reviewed by anyone in
the Linux kernel community, who might have some useful input
on it?

The diagram below shows the architecture.

::

          VM A                    VM B
      +-----+ +-----+  | +-----+ +-----+ +-----+
      |     | |     |  | |     | |     | |     |
  EL0 | APP | | APP |  | | APP | | APP | | APP |
      |     | |     |  | |     | |     | |     |
      +-----+ +-----+  | +-----+ +-----+ +-----+
  ---------------------|-------------------------
      +--------------+ | +----------------------+
      |              | | |                      |
  EL1 | Linux Kernel | | |Linux kernel/Other OS |   ...
      |              | | |                      |
      +--------------+ | +----------------------+
  --------hvc/smc------|------hvc/smc------------
      +----------------------------------------+
      |                                        |
  EL2 |            Gunyah Hypervisor           |
      |                                        |
      +----------------------------------------+

Gunyah provides these following features.

- Threads and Scheduling: The scheduler schedules virtual CPUs (VCPUs) on
physical CPUs and enables time-sharing of the CPUs.
- Memory Management: Gunyah tracks memory ownership and use of all memory
under its control. Memory partitioning between VMs is a fundamental
security feature.
- Interrupt Virtualization: All interrupts are handled in the hypervisor
and routed to the assigned VM.
- Inter-VM Communication: There are several different mechanisms provided
for communicating between VMs.
- Device Virtualization: Para-virtualization of devices is supported using
inter-VM communication. Low level system features and devices such as
interrupt controllers are supported with emulation where required.

This series adds the basic framework for detecting that Linux is running
under Gunyah as a virtual machine, communication with the Gunyah Resource
Manager, and a virtual machine manager capable of launching virtual machines.

Patches 21-28 are presently intended to be submitted separately and are included for initial RFC. These patches introudce "VM function" framework to expose further interfaces to interact with Gunyah Virtual Machines. With all 28 patches, it is
possible to create a Gunyah VM supporting virtio.

I'm not a virtualization expert, and it's likely some of my
comments demonstrate that...

You're going to need to update your copyright dates to include
2023 now.

I haven't looked at the earlier reviews; perhaps the RFC stuff
was requested.  I'm sure it's useful to see that but it doesn't
seem directly helpful if your goal is to get this code upstream.


Right, the RFC patches were requested. Do you have a recommendation for sharing those later patches? I understand it's best practice not to post too many patches. The logical split was to have 1-20 go in first, and the remaining patches submitted later.

At this point I've reviewed only through patch 9.  I currently
have smallish blocks of time and I don't want to hold back my
feedback for too long.

                     -Alex

Changes in v8:
  - Treat VM manager as a library of RM
  - Add patches 21-28 as RFC to support proxy-scheduled vCPUs and necessary bits to support virtio
    from Gunyah userspace

Changes in v7: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221121140009.2353512-1-quic_eberman@xxxxxxxxxxx/
  - Refactor to remove gunyah RM bus
  - Refactor allow multiple RM device instances
  - Bump UAPI to start at 0x0
  - Refactor QCOM SCM's platform hooks to allow CONFIG_QCOM_SCM=Y/CONFIG_GUNYAH=M combinations

Changes in v6: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221026185846.3983888-1-quic_eberman@xxxxxxxxxxx/
  - *Replace gunyah-console with gunyah VM Manager*
  - Move include/asm-generic/gunyah.h into include/linux/gunyah.h
  - s/gunyah_msgq/gh_msgq/
  - Minor tweaks and documentation tidying based on comments from Jiri, Greg, Arnd, Dmitry, and Bagas.

Changes in v5: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221011000840.289033-1-quic_eberman@xxxxxxxxxxx/
  - Dropped sysfs nodes
  - Switch from aux bus to Gunyah RM bus for the subdevices
  - Cleaning up RM console

Changes in v4: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220928195633.2348848-1-quic_eberman@xxxxxxxxxxx/   - Tidied up documentation throughout based on questions/feedback received
  - Switched message queue implementation to use mailboxes
  - Renamed "gunyah_device" as "gunyah_resource"

Changes in v3: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220811214107.1074343-1-quic_eberman@xxxxxxxxxxx/
  - /Maintained/Supported/ in MAINTAINERS
  - Tidied up documentation throughout based on questions/feedback received   - Moved hypercalls into arch/arm64/gunyah/; following hyper-v's implementation
  - Drop opaque typedefs
  - Move sysfs nodes under /sys/hypervisor/gunyah/
  - Moved Gunyah console driver to drivers/tty/
  - Reworked gunyah_device design to drop the Gunyah bus.

Changes in v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220801211240.597859-1-quic_eberman@xxxxxxxxxxx/
  - DT bindings clean up
  - Switch hypercalls to follow SMCCC

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220223233729.1571114-1-quic_eberman@xxxxxxxxxxx/

Elliot Berman (28):
   docs: gunyah: Introduce Gunyah Hypervisor
   dt-bindings: Add binding for gunyah hypervisor
   gunyah: Common types and error codes for Gunyah hypercalls
   arm64: smccc: Include alternative-macros.h
   virt: gunyah: Add hypercalls to identify Gunyah
   virt: gunyah: Identify hypervisor version
   mailbox: Allow direct registration to a channel
   virt: gunyah: msgq: Add hypercalls to send and receive messages
   mailbox: Add Gunyah message queue mailbox
   gunyah: rsc_mgr: Add resource manager RPC core
   gunyah: rsc_mgr: Add VM lifecycle RPC
   gunyah: vm_mgr: Introduce basic VM Manager
   gunyah: rsc_mgr: Add RPC for sharing memory
   gunyah: vm_mgr: Add/remove user memory regions
   gunyah: vm_mgr: Add ioctls to support basic non-proxy VM boot
   samples: Add sample userspace Gunyah VM Manager
   gunyah: rsc_mgr: Add platform ops on mem_lend/mem_reclaim
   firmware: qcom_scm: Use fixed width src vm bitmap
   firmware: qcom_scm: Register Gunyah platform ops
   docs: gunyah: Document Gunyah VM Manager
   virt: gunyah: Translate gh_rm_hyp_resource into gunyah_resource
   gunyah: vm_mgr: Add framework to add VM Functions
   virt: gunyah: Add resource tickets
   virt: gunyah: Add IO handlers
   virt: gunyah: Add proxy-scheduled vCPUs
   virt: gunyah: Add hypercalls for sending doorbell
   virt: gunyah: Add irqfd interface
   virt: gunyah: Add ioeventfd

  .../bindings/firmware/gunyah-hypervisor.yaml  |  82 ++
  .../userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst      |   1 +
  Documentation/virt/gunyah/index.rst           | 115 +++
  Documentation/virt/gunyah/message-queue.rst   |  64 ++
  Documentation/virt/gunyah/vm-manager.rst      | 187 ++++
  Documentation/virt/index.rst                  |   1 +
  MAINTAINERS                                   |  13 +
  arch/arm64/Kbuild                             |   1 +
  arch/arm64/gunyah/Makefile                    |   1 +
  arch/arm64/gunyah/gunyah_hypercall.c          | 157 ++++
  arch/arm64/include/asm/gunyah.h               |  23 +
  drivers/firmware/Kconfig                      |   2 +
  drivers/firmware/qcom_scm.c                   | 107 ++-
  drivers/mailbox/Kconfig                       |  10 +
  drivers/mailbox/Makefile                      |   2 +
  drivers/mailbox/gunyah-msgq.c                 | 229 +++++
  drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c                     |  96 ++-
  drivers/mailbox/omap-mailbox.c                |  18 +-
  drivers/mailbox/pcc.c                         |  18 +-
  drivers/misc/fastrpc.c                        |   6 +-
  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/qmi.c         |   4 +-
  drivers/remoteproc/qcom_q6v5_mss.c            |   8 +-
  drivers/soc/qcom/rmtfs_mem.c                  |   2 +-
  drivers/virt/Kconfig                          |   1 +
  drivers/virt/Makefile                         |   1 +
  drivers/virt/gunyah/Kconfig                   |  73 ++
  drivers/virt/gunyah/Makefile                  |  10 +
  drivers/virt/gunyah/gunyah.c                  |  46 +
  drivers/virt/gunyah/gunyah_ioeventfd.c        | 109 +++
  drivers/virt/gunyah/gunyah_irqfd.c            | 180 ++++
  drivers/virt/gunyah/gunyah_platform_hooks.c   |  63 ++
  drivers/virt/gunyah/gunyah_vcpu.c             | 350 ++++++++
  drivers/virt/gunyah/rsc_mgr.c                 | 795 ++++++++++++++++++
  drivers/virt/gunyah/rsc_mgr.h                 | 124 +++
  drivers/virt/gunyah/rsc_mgr_rpc.c             | 428 ++++++++++
  drivers/virt/gunyah/vm_mgr.c                  | 594 +++++++++++++
  drivers/virt/gunyah/vm_mgr.h                  |  76 ++
  drivers/virt/gunyah/vm_mgr_mm.c               | 245 ++++++
  include/linux/arm-smccc.h                     |   1 +
  include/linux/gunyah.h                        | 186 ++++
  include/linux/gunyah_rsc_mgr.h                | 136 +++
  include/linux/gunyah_vm_mgr.h                 | 107 +++
  include/linux/mailbox_client.h                |   1 +
  include/linux/qcom_scm.h                      |   2 +-
  include/uapi/linux/gunyah.h                   | 114 +++
  samples/Kconfig                               |  10 +
  samples/Makefile                              |   1 +
  samples/gunyah/.gitignore                     |   2 +
  samples/gunyah/Makefile                       |   6 +
  samples/gunyah/gunyah_vmm.c                   | 270 ++++++
  samples/gunyah/sample_vm.dts                  |  69 ++
  51 files changed, 5075 insertions(+), 72 deletions(-)
  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/gunyah-hypervisor.yaml
  create mode 100644 Documentation/virt/gunyah/index.rst
  create mode 100644 Documentation/virt/gunyah/message-queue.rst
  create mode 100644 Documentation/virt/gunyah/vm-manager.rst
  create mode 100644 arch/arm64/gunyah/Makefile
  create mode 100644 arch/arm64/gunyah/gunyah_hypercall.c
  create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/gunyah.h
  create mode 100644 drivers/mailbox/gunyah-msgq.c
  create mode 100644 drivers/virt/gunyah/Kconfig
  create mode 100644 drivers/virt/gunyah/Makefile
  create mode 100644 drivers/virt/gunyah/gunyah.c
  create mode 100644 drivers/virt/gunyah/gunyah_ioeventfd.c
  create mode 100644 drivers/virt/gunyah/gunyah_irqfd.c
  create mode 100644 drivers/virt/gunyah/gunyah_platform_hooks.c
  create mode 100644 drivers/virt/gunyah/gunyah_vcpu.c
  create mode 100644 drivers/virt/gunyah/rsc_mgr.c
  create mode 100644 drivers/virt/gunyah/rsc_mgr.h
  create mode 100644 drivers/virt/gunyah/rsc_mgr_rpc.c
  create mode 100644 drivers/virt/gunyah/vm_mgr.c
  create mode 100644 drivers/virt/gunyah/vm_mgr.h
  create mode 100644 drivers/virt/gunyah/vm_mgr_mm.c
  create mode 100644 include/linux/gunyah.h
  create mode 100644 include/linux/gunyah_rsc_mgr.h
  create mode 100644 include/linux/gunyah_vm_mgr.h
  create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/gunyah.h
  create mode 100644 samples/gunyah/.gitignore
  create mode 100644 samples/gunyah/Makefile
  create mode 100644 samples/gunyah/gunyah_vmm.c
  create mode 100644 samples/gunyah/sample_vm.dts


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