From: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@xxxxxxxxxxx> Update spelling from "VMbus" to "VMBus" to match Hyper-V product documentation. Also correct typo: "SNP-SEV" should be "SEV-SNP". Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Easwar Hariharan <eahariha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes in v2: None Documentation/virt/hyperv/overview.rst | 22 +++---- Documentation/virt/hyperv/vmbus.rst | 82 +++++++++++++------------- 2 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/virt/hyperv/overview.rst b/Documentation/virt/hyperv/overview.rst index cd493332c88a..77408a89d1a4 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/hyperv/overview.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/hyperv/overview.rst @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Linux guests communicate with Hyper-V in four different ways: arm64, these synthetic registers must be accessed using explicit hypercalls. -* VMbus: VMbus is a higher-level software construct that is built on +* VMBus: VMBus is a higher-level software construct that is built on the other 3 mechanisms. It is a message passing interface between the Hyper-V host and the Linux guest. It uses memory that is shared between Hyper-V and the guest, along with various signaling @@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ x86/x64 architecture only. .. _Hyper-V Top Level Functional Spec (TLFS): https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/tlfs/tlfs -VMbus is not documented. This documentation provides a high-level -overview of VMbus and how it works, but the details can be discerned +VMBus is not documented. This documentation provides a high-level +overview of VMBus and how it works, but the details can be discerned only from the code. Sharing Memory @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ follows: physical address space. How Hyper-V is told about the GPA or list of GPAs varies. In some cases, a single GPA is written to a synthetic register. In other cases, a GPA or list of GPAs is sent - in a VMbus message. + in a VMBus message. * Hyper-V translates the GPAs into "real" physical memory addresses, and creates a virtual mapping that it can use to access the memory. @@ -133,9 +133,9 @@ only the CPUs actually present in the VM, so Linux does not report any hot-add CPUs. A Linux guest CPU may be taken offline using the normal Linux -mechanisms, provided no VMbus channel interrupts are assigned to -the CPU. See the section on VMbus Interrupts for more details -on how VMbus channel interrupts can be re-assigned to permit +mechanisms, provided no VMBus channel interrupts are assigned to +the CPU. See the section on VMBus Interrupts for more details +on how VMBus channel interrupts can be re-assigned to permit taking a CPU offline. 32-bit and 64-bit @@ -169,14 +169,14 @@ and functionality. Hyper-V indicates feature/function availability via flags in synthetic MSRs that Hyper-V provides to the guest, and the guest code tests these flags. -VMbus has its own protocol version that is negotiated during the -initial VMbus connection from the guest to Hyper-V. This version +VMBus has its own protocol version that is negotiated during the +initial VMBus connection from the guest to Hyper-V. This version number is also output to dmesg during boot. This version number is checked in a few places in the code to determine if specific functionality is present. -Furthermore, each synthetic device on VMbus also has a protocol -version that is separate from the VMbus protocol version. Device +Furthermore, each synthetic device on VMBus also has a protocol +version that is separate from the VMBus protocol version. Device drivers for these synthetic devices typically negotiate the device protocol version, and may test that protocol version to determine if specific device functionality is present. diff --git a/Documentation/virt/hyperv/vmbus.rst b/Documentation/virt/hyperv/vmbus.rst index d2012d9022c5..f0d83ebda626 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/hyperv/vmbus.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/hyperv/vmbus.rst @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 -VMbus +VMBus ===== -VMbus is a software construct provided by Hyper-V to guest VMs. It +VMBus is a software construct provided by Hyper-V to guest VMs. It consists of a control path and common facilities used by synthetic devices that Hyper-V presents to guest VMs. The control path is used to offer synthetic devices to the guest VM and, in some cases, @@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ and the synthetic device implementation that is part of Hyper-V, and signaling primitives to allow Hyper-V and the guest to interrupt each other. -VMbus is modeled in Linux as a bus, with the expected /sys/bus/vmbus -entry in a running Linux guest. The VMbus driver (drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c) -establishes the VMbus control path with the Hyper-V host, then +VMBus is modeled in Linux as a bus, with the expected /sys/bus/vmbus +entry in a running Linux guest. The VMBus driver (drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c) +establishes the VMBus control path with the Hyper-V host, then registers itself as a Linux bus driver. It implements the standard bus functions for adding and removing devices to/from the bus. @@ -49,9 +49,9 @@ synthetic NIC is referred to as "netvsc" and the Linux driver for the synthetic SCSI controller is "storvsc". These drivers contain functions with names like "storvsc_connect_to_vsp". -VMbus channels +VMBus channels -------------- -An instance of a synthetic device uses VMbus channels to communicate +An instance of a synthetic device uses VMBus channels to communicate between the VSP and the VSC. Channels are bi-directional and used for passing messages. Most synthetic devices use a single channel, but the synthetic SCSI controller and synthetic NIC may use multiple @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ write indices and some control flags, followed by the memory for the actual ring. The size of the ring is determined by the VSC in the guest and is specific to each synthetic device. The list of GPAs making up the ring is communicated to the Hyper-V host over the -VMbus control path as a GPA Descriptor List (GPADL). See function +VMBus control path as a GPA Descriptor List (GPADL). See function vmbus_establish_gpadl(). Each ring buffer is mapped into contiguous Linux kernel virtual @@ -102,9 +102,9 @@ resources. For Windows Server 2019 and later, this limit is approximately 1280 Mbytes. For versions prior to Windows Server 2019, the limit is approximately 384 Mbytes. -VMbus messages +VMBus messages -------------- -All VMbus messages have a standard header that includes the message +All VMBus messages have a standard header that includes the message length, the offset of the message payload, some flags, and a transactionID. The portion of the message after the header is unique to each VSP/VSC pair. @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ control message contains a list of GPAs that describe the data buffer. For example, the storvsc driver uses this approach to specify the data buffers to/from which disk I/O is done. -Three functions exist to send VMbus messages: +Three functions exist to send VMBus messages: 1. vmbus_sendpacket(): Control-only messages and messages with embedded data -- no GPAs @@ -154,20 +154,20 @@ Historically, Linux guests have trusted Hyper-V to send well-formed and valid messages, and Linux drivers for synthetic devices did not fully validate messages. With the introduction of processor technologies that fully encrypt guest memory and that allow the -guest to not trust the hypervisor (AMD SNP-SEV, Intel TDX), trusting +guest to not trust the hypervisor (AMD SEV-SNP, Intel TDX), trusting the Hyper-V host is no longer a valid assumption. The drivers for -VMbus synthetic devices are being updated to fully validate any +VMBus synthetic devices are being updated to fully validate any values read from memory that is shared with Hyper-V, which includes -messages from VMbus devices. To facilitate such validation, +messages from VMBus devices. To facilitate such validation, messages read by the guest from the "in" ring buffer are copied to a temporary buffer that is not shared with Hyper-V. Validation is performed in this temporary buffer without the risk of Hyper-V maliciously modifying the message after it is validated but before it is used. -VMbus interrupts +VMBus interrupts ---------------- -VMbus provides a mechanism for the guest to interrupt the host when +VMBus provides a mechanism for the guest to interrupt the host when the guest has queued new messages in a ring buffer. The host expects that the guest will send an interrupt only when an "out" ring buffer transitions from empty to non-empty. If the guest sends @@ -177,62 +177,62 @@ interrupts, the host may throttle that guest by suspending its execution for a few seconds to prevent a denial-of-service attack. Similarly, the host will interrupt the guest when it sends a new -message on the VMbus control path, or when a VMbus channel "in" ring +message on the VMBus control path, or when a VMBus channel "in" ring buffer transitions from empty to non-empty. Each CPU in the guest -may receive VMbus interrupts, so they are best modeled as per-CPU +may receive VMBus interrupts, so they are best modeled as per-CPU interrupts in Linux. This model works well on arm64 where a single -per-CPU IRQ is allocated for VMbus. Since x86/x64 lacks support for +per-CPU IRQ is allocated for VMBus. Since x86/x64 lacks support for per-CPU IRQs, an x86 interrupt vector is statically allocated (see HYPERVISOR_CALLBACK_VECTOR) across all CPUs and explicitly coded to -call the VMbus interrupt service routine. These interrupts are +call the VMBus interrupt service routine. These interrupts are visible in /proc/interrupts on the "HYP" line. -The guest CPU that a VMbus channel will interrupt is selected by the +The guest CPU that a VMBus channel will interrupt is selected by the guest when the channel is created, and the host is informed of that -selection. VMbus devices are broadly grouped into two categories: +selection. VMBus devices are broadly grouped into two categories: -1. "Slow" devices that need only one VMbus channel. The devices +1. "Slow" devices that need only one VMBus channel. The devices (such as keyboard, mouse, heartbeat, and timesync) generate - relatively few interrupts. Their VMbus channels are all + relatively few interrupts. Their VMBus channels are all assigned to interrupt the VMBUS_CONNECT_CPU, which is always CPU 0. -2. "High speed" devices that may use multiple VMbus channels for +2. "High speed" devices that may use multiple VMBus channels for higher parallelism and performance. These devices include the - synthetic SCSI controller and synthetic NIC. Their VMbus + synthetic SCSI controller and synthetic NIC. Their VMBus channels interrupts are assigned to CPUs that are spread out among the available CPUs in the VM so that interrupts on multiple channels can be processed in parallel. -The assignment of VMbus channel interrupts to CPUs is done in the +The assignment of VMBus channel interrupts to CPUs is done in the function init_vp_index(). This assignment is done outside of the normal Linux interrupt affinity mechanism, so the interrupts are neither "unmanaged" nor "managed" interrupts. -The CPU that a VMbus channel will interrupt can be seen in +The CPU that a VMBus channel will interrupt can be seen in /sys/bus/vmbus/devices/<deviceGUID>/ channels/<channelRelID>/cpu. When running on later versions of Hyper-V, the CPU can be changed by writing a new value to this sysfs entry. Because the interrupt assignment is done outside of the normal Linux affinity mechanism, there are no entries in /proc/irq corresponding to individual -VMbus channel interrupts. +VMBus channel interrupts. An online CPU in a Linux guest may not be taken offline if it has -VMbus channel interrupts assigned to it. Any such channel +VMBus channel interrupts assigned to it. Any such channel interrupts must first be manually reassigned to another CPU as described above. When no channel interrupts are assigned to the CPU, it can be taken offline. -When a guest CPU receives a VMbus interrupt from the host, the +When a guest CPU receives a VMBus interrupt from the host, the function vmbus_isr() handles the interrupt. It first checks for channel interrupts by calling vmbus_chan_sched(), which looks at a bitmap setup by the host to determine which channels have pending interrupts on this CPU. If multiple channels have pending interrupts for this CPU, they are processed sequentially. When all channel interrupts have been processed, vmbus_isr() checks for and -processes any message received on the VMbus control path. +processes any message received on the VMBus control path. -The VMbus channel interrupt handling code is designed to work +The VMBus channel interrupt handling code is designed to work correctly even if an interrupt is received on a CPU other than the CPU assigned to the channel. Specifically, the code does not use CPU-based exclusion for correctness. In normal operation, Hyper-V @@ -242,23 +242,23 @@ when Hyper-V will make the transition. The code must work correctly even if there is a time lag before Hyper-V starts interrupting the new CPU. See comments in target_cpu_store(). -VMbus device creation/deletion +VMBus device creation/deletion ------------------------------ Hyper-V and the Linux guest have a separate message-passing path that is used for synthetic device creation and deletion. This -path does not use a VMbus channel. See vmbus_post_msg() and +path does not use a VMBus channel. See vmbus_post_msg() and vmbus_on_msg_dpc(). The first step is for the guest to connect to the generic -Hyper-V VMbus mechanism. As part of establishing this connection, -the guest and Hyper-V agree on a VMbus protocol version they will +Hyper-V VMBus mechanism. As part of establishing this connection, +the guest and Hyper-V agree on a VMBus protocol version they will use. This negotiation allows newer Linux kernels to run on older Hyper-V versions, and vice versa. The guest then tells Hyper-V to "send offers". Hyper-V sends an offer message to the guest for each synthetic device that the VM -is configured to have. Each VMbus device type has a fixed GUID -known as the "class ID", and each VMbus device instance is also +is configured to have. Each VMBus device type has a fixed GUID +known as the "class ID", and each VMBus device instance is also identified by a GUID. The offer message from Hyper-V contains both GUIDs to uniquely (within the VM) identify the device. There is one offer message for each device instance, so a VM with @@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ type based on the class ID, and invokes the correct driver to set up the device. Driver/device matching is performed using the standard Linux mechanism. -The device driver probe function opens the primary VMbus channel to +The device driver probe function opens the primary VMBus channel to the corresponding VSP. It allocates guest memory for the channel ring buffers and shares the ring buffer with the Hyper-V host by giving the host a list of GPAs for the ring buffer memory. See @@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ Once the ring buffer is set up, the device driver and VSP exchange setup messages via the primary channel. These messages may include negotiating the device protocol version to be used between the Linux VSC and the VSP on the Hyper-V host. The setup messages may also -include creating additional VMbus channels, which are somewhat +include creating additional VMBus channels, which are somewhat mis-named as "sub-channels" since they are functionally equivalent to the primary channel once they are created. -- 2.25.1
