From: Oleksandr <olekstysh@gmail.com>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: "Julien Grall" <julien.grall@arm.com>,
"Andrew Cooper" <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
"Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>, "Wei Liu" <wl@xen.org>,
"George Dunlap" <george.dunlap@citrix.com>,
"Ian Jackson" <iwj@xenproject.org>,
"Julien Grall" <julien@xen.org>,
"Stefano Stabellini" <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
"Daniel De Graaf" <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>,
"Oleksandr Tyshchenko" <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 09/23] xen/dm: Make x86's DM feature common
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 16:54:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7d06c56-7f76-9ba7-6797-ebd9cf133479@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7c985117-2bb4-dd5b-53cf-e217e25b2e8e@suse.com>
On 08.12.20 11:30, Jan Beulich wrote:
Hi Jan
> On 07.12.2020 21:23, Oleksandr wrote:
>> On 07.12.20 14:08, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>> On 30.11.2020 11:31, Oleksandr Tyshchenko wrote:
>>>> From: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
>>>>
>>>> As a lot of x86 code can be re-used on Arm later on, this patch
>>>> splits devicemodel support into common and arch specific parts.
>>>>
>>>> The common DM feature is supposed to be built with IOREQ_SERVER
>>>> option enabled (as well as the IOREQ feature), which is selected
>>>> for x86's config HVM for now.
>>>>
>>>> Also update XSM code a bit to let DM op be used on Arm.
>>>>
>>>> This support is going to be used on Arm to be able run device
>>>> emulator outside of Xen hypervisor.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> Please note, this is a split/cleanup/hardening of Julien's PoC:
>>>> "Add support for Guest IO forwarding to a device emulator"
>>>>
>>>> Changes RFC -> V1:
>>>> - update XSM, related changes were pulled from:
>>>> [RFC PATCH V1 04/12] xen/arm: Introduce arch specific bits for IOREQ/DM features
>>>>
>>>> Changes V1 -> V2:
>>>> - update the author of a patch
>>>> - update patch description
>>>> - introduce xen/dm.h and move definitions here
>>>>
>>>> Changes V2 -> V3:
>>>> - no changes
>>> And my concern regarding the common vs arch nesting also hasn't
>>> changed.
>>
>> I am sorry, I might misread your comment, but I failed to see any
>> obvious to me request(s) for changes.
>> I have just re-read previous discussion...
>> So the question about considering doing it the other way around (top
>> level dm-op handling arch-specific
>> and call into e.g. ioreq_server_dm_op() for otherwise unhandled ops) is
>> exactly a concern which I should have addressed?
> Well, on v2 you replied you didn't consider the alternative. I would
> have expected that you would at least go through this consideration
> process, and see whether there are better reasons to stick with the
> apparently backwards arrangement than to change to the more
> conventional one. If there are such reasons, I would expect them to
> be called out in reply and perhaps also in the commit message; the
> latter because down the road more people may wonder why the more
> narrow / special set of cases gets handled at a higher layer than
> the wider set of remaining ones, and they would then be able to find
> an explanation without having to resort to searching through list
> archives.
Ah, will investigate. Sorry for not paying enough attention to it.
Yes, IOREQ (I mean "common") ops are 7 out of 18 right now. The
subsequent patch is adding one more DM op - XEN_DMOP_set_irq_level.
There are several PCI related ops which might want to be common in the
future (but I am not sure).
--
Regards,
Oleksandr Tyshchenko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-08 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 127+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-30 10:31 Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-11-30 10:31 ` [PATCH V3 01/23] x86/ioreq: Prepare IOREQ feature for making it common Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-12-01 11:03 ` Alex Bennée
2020-12-01 18:53 ` Oleksandr
2020-12-01 19:36 ` Alex Bennée
2020-12-02 8:00 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-02 11:19 ` Oleksandr
2020-12-07 11:13 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-07 15:27 ` Oleksandr
2020-12-07 16:29 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-07 17:21 ` Oleksandr
2020-11-30 10:31 ` [PATCH V3 02/23] x86/ioreq: Add IOREQ_STATUS_* #define-s and update code for moving Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-12-01 11:07 ` Alex Bennée
2020-12-07 11:19 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-07 15:37 ` Oleksandr
2020-11-30 10:31 ` [PATCH V3 03/23] x86/ioreq: Provide out-of-line wrapper for the handle_mmio() Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-12-07 11:27 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-07 15:39 ` Oleksandr
2020-11-30 10:31 ` [PATCH V3 04/23] xen/ioreq: Make x86's IOREQ feature common Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-12-07 11:41 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-07 19:43 ` Oleksandr
2020-12-08 9:21 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-08 13:56 ` Oleksandr
2020-12-08 15:02 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-08 17:24 ` Oleksandr
2020-11-30 10:31 ` [PATCH V3 05/23] xen/ioreq: Make x86's hvm_ioreq_needs_completion() common Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-12-07 11:47 ` Jan Beulich
2020-11-30 10:31 ` [PATCH V3 06/23] xen/ioreq: Make x86's hvm_mmio_first(last)_byte() common Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-12-07 11:48 ` Jan Beulich
2020-11-30 10:31 ` [PATCH V3 07/23] xen/ioreq: Make x86's hvm_ioreq_(page/vcpu/server) structs common Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-12-07 11:54 ` Jan Beulich
2020-11-30 10:31 ` [PATCH V3 08/23] xen/ioreq: Move x86's ioreq_server to struct domain Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-12-07 12:04 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-07 12:12 ` Paul Durrant
2020-12-07 19:52 ` Oleksandr
2020-11-30 10:31 ` [PATCH V3 09/23] xen/dm: Make x86's DM feature common Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-12-07 12:08 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-07 20:23 ` Oleksandr
2020-12-08 9:30 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-08 14:54 ` Oleksandr [this message]
2021-01-07 14:38 ` Oleksandr
2021-01-07 15:01 ` Jan Beulich
2021-01-07 16:49 ` Oleksandr
2021-01-12 22:23 ` Oleksandr
2020-11-30 10:31 ` [PATCH V3 10/23] xen/mm: Make x86's XENMEM_resource_ioreq_server handling common Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-12-07 11:35 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-07 12:11 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-07 21:06 ` Oleksandr
2020-11-30 10:31 ` [PATCH V3 11/23] xen/ioreq: Move x86's io_completion/io_req fields to struct vcpu Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-12-07 12:32 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-07 20:59 ` Oleksandr
2020-12-08 7:52 ` Paul Durrant
2020-12-08 9:35 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-08 18:21 ` Oleksandr
2020-11-30 10:31 ` [PATCH V3 12/23] xen/ioreq: Remove "hvm" prefixes from involved function names Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-12-07 12:45 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-07 20:28 ` Oleksandr
2020-11-30 10:31 ` [PATCH V3 13/23] xen/ioreq: Use guest_cmpxchg64() instead of cmpxchg() Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-12-09 21:32 ` Stefano Stabellini
2020-12-09 22:34 ` Oleksandr
2020-12-10 2:30 ` Stefano Stabellini
2020-11-30 10:31 ` [PATCH V3 14/23] arm/ioreq: Introduce arch specific bits for IOREQ/DM features Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-12-09 22:04 ` Stefano Stabellini
2020-12-09 22:49 ` Oleksandr
2020-12-10 2:30 ` Stefano Stabellini
2020-11-30 10:31 ` [PATCH V3 15/23] xen/arm: Stick around in leave_hypervisor_to_guest until I/O has completed Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-11-30 20:51 ` Volodymyr Babchuk
2020-12-01 12:46 ` Julien Grall
2020-12-09 23:18 ` Stefano Stabellini
2020-12-09 23:35 ` Stefano Stabellini
2020-12-09 23:47 ` Julien Grall
2020-12-10 2:30 ` Stefano Stabellini
2020-12-10 13:17 ` Julien Grall
2020-12-10 13:21 ` Oleksandr
2020-12-09 23:38 ` Julien Grall
2020-11-30 10:31 ` [PATCH V3 16/23] xen/mm: Handle properly reference in set_foreign_p2m_entry() on Arm Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-12-08 14:24 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-08 16:41 ` Oleksandr
2020-12-09 23:49 ` Stefano Stabellini
2021-01-15 1:18 ` Stefano Stabellini
2020-11-30 10:31 ` [PATCH V3 17/23] xen/ioreq: Introduce domain_has_ioreq_server() Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-12-08 15:11 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-08 15:33 ` Oleksandr
2020-12-08 16:56 ` Oleksandr
2020-12-08 19:43 ` Paul Durrant
2020-12-08 20:16 ` Oleksandr
2020-12-09 9:01 ` Paul Durrant
2020-12-09 18:58 ` Julien Grall
2020-12-09 21:05 ` Oleksandr
2020-12-09 20:36 ` Oleksandr
2020-12-10 8:38 ` Paul Durrant
2020-12-10 16:57 ` Oleksandr
2020-11-30 10:31 ` [PATCH V3 18/23] xen/dm: Introduce xendevicemodel_set_irq_level DM op Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-12-10 2:21 ` Stefano Stabellini
2020-12-10 12:58 ` Oleksandr
2020-12-10 13:38 ` Julien Grall
2020-11-30 10:31 ` [PATCH V3 19/23] xen/arm: io: Abstract sign-extension Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-11-30 21:03 ` Volodymyr Babchuk
2020-11-30 23:27 ` Oleksandr
2020-12-01 7:55 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-01 10:30 ` Julien Grall
2020-12-01 10:42 ` Oleksandr
2020-12-01 12:13 ` Julien Grall
2020-12-01 12:24 ` Oleksandr
2020-12-01 12:28 ` Julien Grall
2020-12-01 10:49 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-01 10:23 ` Julien Grall
2020-11-30 10:31 ` [PATCH V3 20/23] xen/ioreq: Make x86's send_invalidate_req() common Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-12-08 15:24 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-08 16:49 ` Oleksandr
2020-12-09 8:21 ` Jan Beulich
2020-11-30 10:31 ` [PATCH V3 21/23] xen/arm: Add mapcache invalidation handling Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-12-10 2:30 ` Stefano Stabellini
2020-12-10 18:50 ` Julien Grall
2020-12-11 1:28 ` Stefano Stabellini
2020-12-11 11:21 ` Oleksandr
2020-12-11 19:07 ` Stefano Stabellini
2020-12-11 19:37 ` Julien Grall
2020-12-11 19:27 ` Julien Grall
2020-11-30 10:31 ` [PATCH V3 22/23] libxl: Introduce basic virtio-mmio support on Arm Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-11-30 10:31 ` [PATCH V3 23/23] [RFC] libxl: Add support for virtio-disk configuration Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2020-11-30 11:22 ` [PATCH V3 00/23] IOREQ feature (+ virtio-mmio) on Arm Oleksandr
2020-12-07 13:03 ` Wei Chen
2020-12-07 21:03 ` Oleksandr
2020-11-30 16:21 ` Alex Bennée
2020-11-30 22:22 ` [PATCH V3 00/23] IOREQ feature (+ virtio-mmio) on Arm Oleksandr
2020-12-29 15:32 ` Roger Pau Monné
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