Document the ioctls and usage of Gunyah VM Manager driver. Signed-off-by: Elliot Berman <quic_eberman@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/virt/gunyah/index.rst | 1 + Documentation/virt/gunyah/vm-manager.rst | 83 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 84 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/virt/gunyah/vm-manager.rst diff --git a/Documentation/virt/gunyah/index.rst b/Documentation/virt/gunyah/index.rst index 74aa345e0a144..7058249825b16 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/gunyah/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/gunyah/index.rst @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Gunyah Hypervisor .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 + vm-manager message-queue Gunyah is a Type-1 hypervisor which is independent of any OS kernel, and runs in diff --git a/Documentation/virt/gunyah/vm-manager.rst b/Documentation/virt/gunyah/vm-manager.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..df0e1a8279bf5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/virt/gunyah/vm-manager.rst @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +======================= +Virtual Machine Manager +======================= + +The Gunyah Virtual Machine Manager is a Linux driver to support launching +virtual machines using Gunyah. It presently supports launching virtual machines +scheduled by Gunyah's scheduler. + +Configuration of a Gunyah virtual machine is done via a devicetree. When the VM +is launched, memory is provided by the host VM which contains the devictree. +Gunyah reads the devicetree to configure the memory map and create resources +such as vCPUs for the VM. Memory can be shared with the VM with +`GH_VM_SET_USER_MEM_REGION`_. Userspace can interact with the resources in Linux +by adding "functions" to the VM. + +Sample Userspace VMM +==================== + +A sample userspace VMM is included in samples/gunyah/ along with a minimal +devicetree that can be used to launch a VM. To build this sample, enable +CONFIG_SAMPLE_GUNYAH. + +IOCTLs and userspace VMM flows +============================== + +The kernel exposes a char device interface at /dev/gunyah. + +To create a VM, use the `GH_CREATE_VM`_ ioctl. A successful call will return a +"Gunyah VM" file descriptor. + +/dev/gunyah API Descriptions +---------------------------- + +GH_CREATE_VM +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Creates a Gunyah VM. The argument is reserved for future use and must be 0. +A successful call will return a Gunyah VM file descriptor. See +`Gunyah VM API Descriptions`_ for list of IOCTLs that can be made on this file +file descriptor. + +Gunyah VM API Descriptions +-------------------------- + +GH_VM_SET_USER_MEM_REGION +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +This ioctl allows the user to create or delete a memory parcel for a guest +virtual machine. Each memory region is uniquely identified by a label; +attempting to create two regions with the same label is not allowed. Labels are +unique per virtual machine. + +While VMM is guest-agnostic and allows runtime addition of memory regions, +Linux guest virtual machines do not support accepting memory regions at runtime. +Thus, for Linux guests, memory regions should be provided before starting the VM +and the VM must be configured via the devicetree to accept these at boot-up. + +The guest physical address is used by Linux kernel to check that the requested +user regions do not overlap and to help find the corresponding memory region +for calls like `GH_VM_SET_DTB_CONFIG`_. It must be page aligned. + +To add a memory region, call `GH_VM_SET_USER_MEM_REGION`_ with fields set as +described above. + +.. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/linux/gunyah.h + :identifiers: gh_userspace_memory_region gh_mem_flags + +GH_VM_SET_DTB_CONFIG +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +This ioctl sets the location of the VM's devicetree blob and is used by Gunyah +Resource Manager to allocate resources. The guest physical memory must be part +of the primary memory parcel provided to the VM prior to GH_VM_START. + +.. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/linux/gunyah.h + :identifiers: gh_vm_dtb_config + +GH_VM_START +~~~~~~~~~~~ + +This ioctl starts the VM. -- 2.40.0