linux/include/kvm/arm_arch_timer.h

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KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Enlighten arch timer for GICv5 Now that GICv5 has arrived, the arch timer requires some TLC to address some of the key differences introduced with GICv5. For PPIs on GICv5, the queue_irq_unlock irq_op is used as AP lists are not required at all for GICv5. The arch timer also introduces an irq_op - get_input_level. Extend the arch-timer-provided irq_ops to include the PPI op for vgic_v5 guests. When possible, DVI (Direct Virtual Interrupt) is set for PPIs when using a vgic_v5, which directly inject the pending state into the guest. This means that the host never sees the interrupt for the guest for these interrupts. This has three impacts. * First of all, the kvm_cpu_has_pending_timer check is updated to explicitly check if the timers are expected to fire. * Secondly, for mapped timers (which use DVI) they must be masked on the host prior to entering a GICv5 guest, and unmasked on the return path. This is handled in set_timer_irq_phys_masked. * Thirdly, it makes zero sense to attempt to inject state for a DVI'd interrupt. Track which timers are direct, and skip the call to kvm_vgic_inject_irq() for these. The final, but rather important, change is that the architected PPIs for the timers are made mandatory for a GICv5 guest. Attempts to set them to anything else are actively rejected. Once a vgic_v5 is initialised, the arch timer PPIs are also explicitly reinitialised to ensure the correct GICv5-compatible PPIs are used - this also adds in the GICv5 PPI type to the intid. Signed-off-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260319154937.3619520-32-sascha.bischoff@arm.com Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
2026-03-19 15:57:45 +00:00
KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Enlighten arch timer for GICv5 Now that GICv5 has arrived, the arch timer requires some TLC to address some of the key differences introduced with GICv5. For PPIs on GICv5, the queue_irq_unlock irq_op is used as AP lists are not required at all for GICv5. The arch timer also introduces an irq_op - get_input_level. Extend the arch-timer-provided irq_ops to include the PPI op for vgic_v5 guests. When possible, DVI (Direct Virtual Interrupt) is set for PPIs when using a vgic_v5, which directly inject the pending state into the guest. This means that the host never sees the interrupt for the guest for these interrupts. This has three impacts. * First of all, the kvm_cpu_has_pending_timer check is updated to explicitly check if the timers are expected to fire. * Secondly, for mapped timers (which use DVI) they must be masked on the host prior to entering a GICv5 guest, and unmasked on the return path. This is handled in set_timer_irq_phys_masked. * Thirdly, it makes zero sense to attempt to inject state for a DVI'd interrupt. Track which timers are direct, and skip the call to kvm_vgic_inject_irq() for these. The final, but rather important, change is that the architected PPIs for the timers are made mandatory for a GICv5 guest. Attempts to set them to anything else are actively rejected. Once a vgic_v5 is initialised, the arch timer PPIs are also explicitly reinitialised to ensure the correct GICv5-compatible PPIs are used - this also adds in the GICv5 PPI type to the intid. Signed-off-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260319154937.3619520-32-sascha.bischoff@arm.com Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
2026-03-19 15:57:45 +00:00
KVM: arm/arm64: Support arch timers with a userspace gic If you're running with a userspace gic or other interrupt controller (that is no vgic in the kernel), then you have so far not been able to use the architected timers, because the output of the architected timers, which are driven inside the kernel, was a kernel-only construct between the arch timer code and the vgic. This patch implements the new KVM_CAP_ARM_USER_IRQ feature, where we use a side channel on the kvm_run structure, run->s.regs.device_irq_level, to always notify userspace of the timer output levels when using a userspace irqchip. This works by ensuring that before we enter the guest, if the timer output level has changed compared to what we last told userspace, we don't enter the guest, but instead return to userspace to notify it of the new level. If we are exiting, because of an MMIO for example, and the level changed at the same time, the value is also updated and userspace can sample the line as it needs. This is nicely achieved simply always updating the timer_irq_level field after the main run loop. Note that the kvm_timer_update_irq trace event is changed to show the host IRQ number for the timer instead of the guest IRQ number, because the kernel no longer know which IRQ userspace wires up the timer signal to. Also note that this patch implements all required functionality but does not yet advertise the capability. Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
2016-09-27 21:08:06 +02:00
KVM: arm/arm64: Avoid timer save/restore in vcpu entry/exit We don't need to save and restore the hardware timer state and examine if it generates interrupts on on every entry/exit to the guest. The timer hardware is perfectly capable of telling us when it has expired by signaling interrupts. When taking a vtimer interrupt in the host, we don't want to mess with the timer configuration, we just want to forward the physical interrupt to the guest as a virtual interrupt. We can use the split priority drop and deactivate feature of the GIC to do this, which leaves an EOI'ed interrupt active on the physical distributor, making sure we don't keep taking timer interrupts which would prevent the guest from running. We can then forward the physical interrupt to the VM using the HW bit in the LR of the GIC, like we do already, which lets the guest directly deactivate both the physical and virtual timer simultaneously, allowing the timer hardware to exit the VM and generate a new physical interrupt when the timer output is again asserted later on. We do need to capture this state when migrating VCPUs between physical CPUs, however, which we use the vcpu put/load functions for, which are called through preempt notifiers whenever the thread is scheduled away from the CPU or called directly if we return from the ioctl to userspace. One caveat is that we have to save and restore the timer state in both kvm_timer_vcpu_[put/load] and kvm_timer_[schedule/unschedule], because we can have the following flows: 1. kvm_vcpu_block 2. kvm_timer_schedule 3. schedule 4. kvm_timer_vcpu_put (preempt notifier) 5. schedule (vcpu thread gets scheduled back) 6. kvm_timer_vcpu_load (preempt notifier) 7. kvm_timer_unschedule And a version where we don't actually call schedule: 1. kvm_vcpu_block 2. kvm_timer_schedule 7. kvm_timer_unschedule Since kvm_timer_[schedule/unschedule] may not be followed by put/load, but put/load also may be called independently, we call the timer save/restore functions from both paths. Since they rely on the loaded flag to never save/restore when unnecessary, this doesn't cause any harm, and we ensure that all invokations of either set of functions work as intended. An added benefit beyond not having to read and write the timer sysregs on every entry and exit is that we no longer have to actively write the active state to the physical distributor, because we configured the irq for the vtimer to only get a priority drop when handling the interrupt in the GIC driver (we called irq_set_vcpu_affinity()), and the interrupt stays active after firing on the host. Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org>
2016-10-16 20:30:38 +02:00
KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Enlighten arch timer for GICv5 Now that GICv5 has arrived, the arch timer requires some TLC to address some of the key differences introduced with GICv5. For PPIs on GICv5, the queue_irq_unlock irq_op is used as AP lists are not required at all for GICv5. The arch timer also introduces an irq_op - get_input_level. Extend the arch-timer-provided irq_ops to include the PPI op for vgic_v5 guests. When possible, DVI (Direct Virtual Interrupt) is set for PPIs when using a vgic_v5, which directly inject the pending state into the guest. This means that the host never sees the interrupt for the guest for these interrupts. This has three impacts. * First of all, the kvm_cpu_has_pending_timer check is updated to explicitly check if the timers are expected to fire. * Secondly, for mapped timers (which use DVI) they must be masked on the host prior to entering a GICv5 guest, and unmasked on the return path. This is handled in set_timer_irq_phys_masked. * Thirdly, it makes zero sense to attempt to inject state for a DVI'd interrupt. Track which timers are direct, and skip the call to kvm_vgic_inject_irq() for these. The final, but rather important, change is that the architected PPIs for the timers are made mandatory for a GICv5 guest. Attempts to set them to anything else are actively rejected. Once a vgic_v5 is initialised, the arch timer PPIs are also explicitly reinitialised to ensure the correct GICv5-compatible PPIs are used - this also adds in the GICv5 PPI type to the intid. Signed-off-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260319154937.3619520-32-sascha.bischoff@arm.com Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
2026-03-19 15:57:45 +00:00
KVM: arm/arm64: Avoid timer save/restore in vcpu entry/exit We don't need to save and restore the hardware timer state and examine if it generates interrupts on on every entry/exit to the guest. The timer hardware is perfectly capable of telling us when it has expired by signaling interrupts. When taking a vtimer interrupt in the host, we don't want to mess with the timer configuration, we just want to forward the physical interrupt to the guest as a virtual interrupt. We can use the split priority drop and deactivate feature of the GIC to do this, which leaves an EOI'ed interrupt active on the physical distributor, making sure we don't keep taking timer interrupts which would prevent the guest from running. We can then forward the physical interrupt to the VM using the HW bit in the LR of the GIC, like we do already, which lets the guest directly deactivate both the physical and virtual timer simultaneously, allowing the timer hardware to exit the VM and generate a new physical interrupt when the timer output is again asserted later on. We do need to capture this state when migrating VCPUs between physical CPUs, however, which we use the vcpu put/load functions for, which are called through preempt notifiers whenever the thread is scheduled away from the CPU or called directly if we return from the ioctl to userspace. One caveat is that we have to save and restore the timer state in both kvm_timer_vcpu_[put/load] and kvm_timer_[schedule/unschedule], because we can have the following flows: 1. kvm_vcpu_block 2. kvm_timer_schedule 3. schedule 4. kvm_timer_vcpu_put (preempt notifier) 5. schedule (vcpu thread gets scheduled back) 6. kvm_timer_vcpu_load (preempt notifier) 7. kvm_timer_unschedule And a version where we don't actually call schedule: 1. kvm_vcpu_block 2. kvm_timer_schedule 7. kvm_timer_unschedule Since kvm_timer_[schedule/unschedule] may not be followed by put/load, but put/load also may be called independently, we call the timer save/restore functions from both paths. Since they rely on the loaded flag to never save/restore when unnecessary, this doesn't cause any harm, and we ensure that all invokations of either set of functions work as intended. An added benefit beyond not having to read and write the timer sysregs on every entry and exit is that we no longer have to actively write the active state to the physical distributor, because we configured the irq for the vtimer to only get a priority drop when handling the interrupt in the GIC driver (we called irq_set_vcpu_affinity()), and the interrupt stays active after firing on the host. Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org>
2016-10-16 20:30:38 +02:00