From: Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>
To: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
<kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu>, <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>,
Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>,
"Robert Richter" <rrichter@marvell.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Eric Auger" <eric.auger@redhat.com>,
James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
"Julien Thierry" <julien.thierry.kdev@gmail.com>,
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 01/23] irqchip/gic-v3: Use SGIs without active state if offered
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:39:08 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e20f3c3-0312-bd29-dcfc-2afee764ef19@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1bff1835ba7d6e22edb836d38cf16a14@kernel.org>
Hi Marc,
On 2020/3/12 20:05, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 2020-03-12 09:28, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> Hi Zenghui,
>>
>> On 2020-03-12 06:30, Zenghui Yu wrote:
>>> Hi Marc,
>>>
>>> On 2020/3/5 4:33, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>>> To allow the direct injection of SGIs into a guest, the GICv4.1
>>>> architecture has to sacrifice the Active state so that SGIs look
>>>> a lot like LPIs (they are injected by the same mechanism).
>>>>
>>>> In order not to break existing software, the architecture gives
>>>> offers guests OSs the choice: SGIs with or without an active
>>>> state. It is the hypervisors duty to honor the guest's choice.
>>>>
>>>> For this, the architecture offers a discovery bit indicating whether
>>>> the GIC supports GICv4.1 SGIs (GICD_TYPER2.nASSGIcap), and another
>>>> bit indicating whether the guest wants Active-less SGIs or not
>>>> (controlled by GICD_CTLR.nASSGIreq).
>>>
>>> I still can't find the description of these two bits in IHI0069F.
>>> Are they actually architected and will be available in the future
>>> version of the spec? I want to confirm it again since this has a
>>> great impact on the KVM code, any pointers?
>>
>> Damn. The bits *are* in the engineering spec version 19 (unfortunately
>> not a public document, but I believe you should have access to it).
>>
>> If the bits have effectively been removed from the spec, I'll drop the
>> GICv4.1 code from the 5.7 queue until we find a way to achieve the same
>> level of support.
>>
>> I've emailed people inside ARM to find out.
>
> I've now had written confirmation that the bits are still there.
>
> It is just that the current revision of the documentation was cut *before*
> they made it into the architecture (there seem to be a 6 month delay
> between
> the architecture being sampled and the documentation being released).
I see. Thanks for the confirmation!
Zenghui
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-13 1:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 114+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-04 20:33 [PATCH v5 00/23] irqchip/gic-v4: GICv4.1 architecture support Marc Zyngier
2020-03-04 20:33 ` [PATCH v5 01/23] irqchip/gic-v3: Use SGIs without active state if offered Marc Zyngier
2020-03-12 6:30 ` Zenghui Yu
2020-03-12 9:28 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-03-12 12:05 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-03-13 1:39 ` Zenghui Yu [this message]
2020-03-12 17:16 ` Auger Eric
2020-03-12 17:23 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-03-29 20:26 ` [tip: irq/core] " tip-bot2 for Marc Zyngier
2020-03-04 20:33 ` [PATCH v5 02/23] irqchip/gic-v4.1: Skip absent CPUs while iterating over redistributors Marc Zyngier
2020-03-16 17:10 ` Auger Eric
2020-03-29 20:26 ` [tip: irq/core] " tip-bot2 for Marc Zyngier
2020-03-04 20:33 ` [PATCH v5 03/23] irqchip/gic-v4.1: Ensure mutual exclusion between vPE affinity change and RD access Marc Zyngier
2020-03-12 6:56 ` Zenghui Yu
2020-03-29 20:26 ` [tip: irq/core] " tip-bot2 for Marc Zyngier
2020-03-04 20:33 ` [PATCH v5 04/23] irqchip/gic-v4.1: Wait for completion of redistributor's INVALL operation Marc Zyngier
2020-03-20 14:23 ` Auger Eric
2020-03-04 20:33 ` [PATCH v5 05/23] irqchip/gic-v4.1: Ensure mutual exclusion betwen invalidations on the same RD Marc Zyngier
2020-03-12 7:11 ` Zenghui Yu
2020-03-20 14:23 ` Auger Eric
2020-03-29 20:26 ` [tip: irq/core] " tip-bot2 for Marc Zyngier
2020-03-04 20:33 ` [PATCH v5 06/23] irqchip/gic-v4.1: Advertise support v4.1 to KVM Marc Zyngier
2020-03-16 17:10 ` Auger Eric
2020-03-29 20:26 ` [tip: irq/core] " tip-bot2 for Marc Zyngier
2020-03-04 20:33 ` [PATCH v5 07/23] irqchip/gic-v4.1: Map the ITS SGIR register page Marc Zyngier
2020-03-16 17:10 ` Auger Eric
2020-03-29 20:26 ` [tip: irq/core] " tip-bot2 for Marc Zyngier
2020-03-04 20:33 ` [PATCH v5 08/23] irqchip/gic-v4.1: Plumb skeletal VSGI irqchip Marc Zyngier
2020-03-16 17:10 ` Auger Eric
2020-03-19 10:03 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-03-29 20:26 ` [tip: irq/core] " tip-bot2 for Marc Zyngier
2020-03-04 20:33 ` [PATCH v5 09/23] irqchip/gic-v4.1: Add initial SGI configuration Marc Zyngier
2020-03-16 17:53 ` Auger Eric
2020-03-17 2:02 ` Zenghui Yu
2020-03-17 8:36 ` Auger Eric
2020-03-19 10:20 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-03-29 20:26 ` [tip: irq/core] " tip-bot2 for Marc Zyngier
2020-03-04 20:33 ` [PATCH v5 10/23] irqchip/gic-v4.1: Plumb mask/unmask SGI callbacks Marc Zyngier
2020-03-16 18:15 ` Auger Eric
2020-03-29 20:26 ` [tip: irq/core] " tip-bot2 for Marc Zyngier
2020-03-04 20:33 ` [PATCH v5 11/23] irqchip/gic-v4.1: Plumb get/set_irqchip_state " Marc Zyngier
2020-03-12 7:41 ` Zenghui Yu
2020-03-16 21:43 ` Auger Eric
2020-03-19 10:27 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-03-29 20:26 ` [tip: irq/core] " tip-bot2 for Marc Zyngier
2020-03-04 20:33 ` [PATCH v5 12/23] irqchip/gic-v4.1: Plumb set_vcpu_affinity " Marc Zyngier
2020-03-17 10:35 ` Auger Eric
2020-03-29 20:26 ` [tip: irq/core] " tip-bot2 for Marc Zyngier
2020-03-04 20:33 ` [PATCH v5 13/23] irqchip/gic-v4.1: Move doorbell management to the GICv4 abstraction layer Marc Zyngier
2020-03-12 8:20 ` Zenghui Yu
2020-03-29 20:26 ` [tip: irq/core] " tip-bot2 for Marc Zyngier
2020-03-04 20:33 ` [PATCH v5 14/23] irqchip/gic-v4.1: Add VSGI allocation/teardown Marc Zyngier
2020-03-12 8:06 ` Zenghui Yu
2020-03-29 20:26 ` [tip: irq/core] " tip-bot2 for Marc Zyngier
2020-03-04 20:33 ` [PATCH v5 15/23] irqchip/gic-v4.1: Add VSGI property setup Marc Zyngier
2020-03-12 8:09 ` Zenghui Yu
2020-03-17 10:30 ` Auger Eric
2020-03-19 10:57 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-03-29 20:26 ` [tip: irq/core] " tip-bot2 for Marc Zyngier
2020-03-04 20:33 ` [PATCH v5 16/23] irqchip/gic-v4.1: Eagerly vmap vPEs Marc Zyngier
2020-03-12 8:12 ` Zenghui Yu
2020-03-17 2:49 ` Zenghui Yu
2020-03-19 10:55 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-03-20 2:31 ` Zenghui Yu
2020-03-29 20:26 ` [tip: irq/core] " tip-bot2 for Marc Zyngier
2020-03-04 20:33 ` [PATCH v5 17/23] KVM: arm64: GICv4.1: Let doorbells be auto-enabled Marc Zyngier
2020-03-12 8:15 ` Zenghui Yu
2020-03-17 11:04 ` Auger Eric
2020-03-04 20:33 ` [PATCH v5 18/23] KVM: arm64: GICv4.1: Add direct injection capability to SGI registers Marc Zyngier
2020-03-18 3:28 ` Zenghui Yu
2020-03-20 8:11 ` Auger Eric
2020-03-20 10:05 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-03-20 10:56 ` Auger Eric
2020-03-04 20:33 ` [PATCH v5 19/23] KVM: arm64: GICv4.1: Allow SGIs to switch between HW and SW interrupts Marc Zyngier
2020-03-19 16:16 ` Auger Eric
2020-03-19 19:52 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-03-19 20:13 ` Auger Eric
2020-03-20 9:17 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-03-20 4:22 ` Zenghui Yu
2020-03-04 20:33 ` [PATCH v5 20/23] KVM: arm64: GICv4.1: Plumb SGI implementation selection in the distributor Marc Zyngier
2020-03-18 6:34 ` Zenghui Yu
2020-03-19 12:10 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-03-19 20:38 ` Auger Eric
2020-03-20 3:08 ` Zenghui Yu
2020-03-20 7:59 ` Auger Eric
2020-03-20 9:46 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-03-20 11:09 ` Auger Eric
2020-03-20 11:20 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-03-20 3:53 ` Zenghui Yu
2020-03-20 9:01 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-03-23 8:11 ` Zenghui Yu
2020-03-23 8:25 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-03-23 12:40 ` Zenghui Yu
2020-03-04 20:33 ` [PATCH v5 21/23] KVM: arm64: GICv4.1: Reload VLPI configuration on distributor enable/disable Marc Zyngier
2020-03-18 3:17 ` Zenghui Yu
2020-03-19 12:18 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-03-04 20:33 ` [PATCH v5 22/23] KVM: arm64: GICv4.1: Allow non-trapping WFI when using HW SGIs Marc Zyngier
2020-03-20 4:23 ` Zenghui Yu
2020-03-20 8:12 ` Auger Eric
2020-03-04 20:33 ` [PATCH v5 23/23] KVM: arm64: GICv4.1: Expose HW-based SGIs in debugfs Marc Zyngier
2020-03-18 3:19 ` Zenghui Yu
2020-03-19 15:05 ` Auger Eric
2020-03-19 15:21 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-03-19 15:43 ` Auger Eric
2020-03-19 16:16 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-03-19 16:17 ` Auger Eric
2020-03-20 4:38 ` Zenghui Yu
2020-03-20 9:09 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-03-20 11:35 ` Zenghui Yu
2020-03-20 11:46 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-03-20 12:09 ` Zenghui Yu
2020-03-05 3:39 ` [PATCH v5 00/23] irqchip/gic-v4: GICv4.1 architecture support Zenghui Yu
2020-03-09 8:17 ` Zenghui Yu
2020-03-09 8:46 ` Marc Zyngier
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