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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/32] implement vNVDIMM
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Bharata B Rao |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/32] implement vNVDIMM |
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Mon, 12 Oct 2015 08:29:52 +0530 |
Xiao,
Are these patches present in any git tree so that they can be easily tried out.
Regards,
Bharata.
On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Xiao Guangrong
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Changelog in v3:
> There is huge change in this version, thank Igor, Stefan, Paolo, Eduardo,
> Michael for their valuable comments, the patchset finally gets better shape.
> - changes from Igor's comments:
> 1) abstract dimm device type from pc-dimm and create nvdimm device based on
> dimm, then it uses memory backend device as nvdimm's memory and NUMA has
> easily been implemented.
> 2) let file-backend device support any kind of filesystem not only for
> hugetlbfs and let it work on file not only for directory which is
> achieved by extending 'mem-path' - if it's a directory then it works as
> current behavior, otherwise if it's file then directly allocates memory
> from it.
> 3) we figure out a unused memory hole below 4G that is 0xFF00000 ~
> 0xFFF00000, this range is large enough for NVDIMM ACPI as build 64-bit
> ACPI SSDT/DSDT table will break windows XP.
> BTW, only make SSDT.rev = 2 can not work since the width is only depended
> on DSDT.rev based on 19.6.28 DefinitionBlock (Declare Definition Block)
> in ACPI spec:
> | Note: For compatibility with ACPI versions before ACPI 2.0, the bit
> | width of Integer objects is dependent on the ComplianceRevision of the DSDT.
> | If the ComplianceRevision is less than 2, all integers are restricted to 32
> | bits. Otherwise, full 64-bit integers are used. The version of the DSDT sets
> | the global integer width for all integers, including integers in SSDTs.
> 4) use the lowest ACPI spec version to document AML terms.
> 5) use "nvdimm" as nvdimm device name instead of "pc-nvdimm"
>
> - changes from Stefan's comments:
> 1) do not do endian adjustment in-place since _DSM memory is visible to
> guest
> 2) use target platform's target page size instead of fixed PAGE_SIZE
> definition
> 3) lots of code style improvement and typo fixes.
> 4) live migration fix
> - changes from Paolo's comments:
> 1) improve the name of memory region
>
> - other changes:
> 1) return exact buffer size for _DSM method instead of the page size.
> 2) introduce mutex in NVDIMM ACPI as the _DSM memory is shared by all nvdimm
> devices.
> 3) NUMA support
> 4) implement _FIT method
> 5) rename "configdata" to "reserve-label-data"
> 6) simplify _DSM arg3 determination
> 7) main changelog update to let it reflect v3.
>
> Changlog in v2:
> - Use litten endian for DSM method, thanks for Stefan's suggestion
>
> - introduce a new parameter, @configdata, if it's false, Qemu will
> build a static and readonly namespace in memory and use it serveing
> for DSM GET_CONFIG_SIZE/GET_CONFIG_DATA requests. In this case, no
> reserved region is needed at the end of the @file, it is good for
> the user who want to pass whole nvdimm device and make its data
> completely be visible to guest
>
> - divide the source code into separated files and add maintain info
>
> BTW, PCOMMIT virtualization on KVM side is work in progress, hopefully will
> be posted on next week
>
> ====== Background ======
> NVDIMM (A Non-Volatile Dual In-line Memory Module) is going to be supported
> on Intel's platform. They are discovered via ACPI and configured by _DSM
> method of NVDIMM device in ACPI. There has some supporting documents which
> can be found at:
> ACPI 6: http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_6.0.pdf
> NVDIMM Namespace: http://pmem.io/documents/NVDIMM_Namespace_Spec.pdf
> DSM Interface Example:
> http://pmem.io/documents/NVDIMM_DSM_Interface_Example.pdf
> Driver Writer's Guide:
> http://pmem.io/documents/NVDIMM_Driver_Writers_Guide.pdf
>
> Currently, the NVDIMM driver has been merged into upstream Linux Kernel and
> this patchset tries to enable it in virtualization field
>
> ====== Design ======
> NVDIMM supports two mode accesses, one is PMEM which maps NVDIMM into CPU's
> address space then CPU can directly access it as normal memory, another is
> BLK which is used as block device to reduce the occupying of CPU address
> space
>
> BLK mode accesses NVDIMM via Command Register window and Data Register window.
> BLK virtualization has high workload since each sector access will cause at
> least two VM-EXIT. So we currently only imperilment vPMEM in this patchset
>
> --- vPMEM design ---
> We introduce a new device named "nvdimm", it uses memory backend device as
> NVDIMM memory. The file in file-backend device can be a regular file and block
> device. We can use any file when we do test or emulation, however,
> in the real word, the files passed to guest are:
> - the regular file in the filesystem with DAX enabled created on NVDIMM device
> on host
> - the raw PMEM device on host, e,g /dev/pmem0
> Memory access on the address created by mmap on these kinds of files can
> directly reach NVDIMM device on host.
>
> --- vConfigure data area design ---
> Each NVDIMM device has a configure data area which is used to store label
> namespace data. In order to emulating this area, we divide the file into two
> parts:
> - first parts is (0, size - 128K], which is used as PMEM
> - 128K at the end of the file, which is used as Label Data Area
> So that the label namespace data can be persistent during power lose or system
> failure.
>
> We also support passing the whole file to guest without reserve any region for
> label data area which is achieved by "reserve-label-data" parameter - if it's
> false then QEMU will build static and readonly namespace in memory and that
> namespace contains the whole file size. The parameter is false on default.
>
> --- _DSM method design ---
> _DSM in ACPI is used to configure NVDIMM, currently we only allow access of
> label namespace data, i.e, Get Namespace Label Size (Function Index 4),
> Get Namespace Label Data (Function Index 5) and Set Namespace Label Data
> (Function Index 6)
>
> _DSM uses two pages to transfer data between ACPI and Qemu, the first page
> is RAM-based used to save the input info of _DSM method and Qemu reuse it
> store output info and another page is MMIO-based, ACPI write data to this
> page to transfer the control to Qemu
>
> ====== Test ======
> In host
> 1) create memory backed file, e.g # dd if=zero of=/tmp/nvdimm bs=1G count=10
> 2) append "-object memory-backend-file,share,id=mem1,
> mem-path=/tmp/nvdimm -device nvdimm,memdev=mem1,reserve-label-data,
> id=nv1" in QEMU command line
>
> In guest, download the latest upsteam kernel (4.2 merge window) and enable
> ACPI_NFIT, LIBNVDIMM and BLK_DEV_PMEM.
> 1) insmod drivers/nvdimm/libnvdimm.ko
> 2) insmod drivers/acpi/nfit.ko
> 3) insmod drivers/nvdimm/nd_btt.ko
> 4) insmod drivers/nvdimm/nd_pmem.ko
> You can see the whole nvdimm device used as a single namespace and /dev/pmem0
> appears. You can do whatever on /dev/pmem0 including DAX access.
>
> Currently Linux NVDIMM driver does not support namespace operation on this
> kind of PMEM, apply below changes to support dynamical namespace:
>
> @@ -798,7 +823,8 @@ static int acpi_nfit_register_dimms(struct acpi_nfit_desc
> *a
> continue;
> }
>
> - if (nfit_mem->bdw && nfit_mem->memdev_pmem)
> + //if (nfit_mem->bdw && nfit_mem->memdev_pmem)
> + if (nfit_mem->memdev_pmem)
> flags |= NDD_ALIASING;
>
> You can append another NVDIMM device in guest and do:
> # cd /sys/bus/nd/devices/
> # cd namespace1.0/
> # echo `uuidgen` > uuid
> # echo `expr 1024 \* 1024 \* 128` > size
> then reload nd.pmem.ko
>
> You can see /dev/pmem1 appears
>
> ====== TODO ======
> NVDIMM hotplug support
>
> Xiao Guangrong (32):
> acpi: add aml_derefof
> acpi: add aml_sizeof
> acpi: add aml_create_field
> acpi: add aml_mutex, aml_acquire, aml_release
> acpi: add aml_concatenate
> acpi: add aml_object_type
> util: introduce qemu_file_get_page_size()
> exec: allow memory to be allocated from any kind of path
> exec: allow file_ram_alloc to work on file
> hostmem-file: clean up memory allocation
> hostmem-file: use whole file size if possible
> pc-dimm: remove DEFAULT_PC_DIMMSIZE
> pc-dimm: make pc_existing_dimms_capacity static and rename it
> pc-dimm: drop the prefix of pc-dimm
> stubs: rename qmp_pc_dimm_device_list.c
> pc-dimm: rename pc-dimm.c and pc-dimm.h
> dimm: abstract dimm device from pc-dimm
> dimm: get mapped memory region from DIMMDeviceClass->get_memory_region
> dimm: keep the state of the whole backend memory
> dimm: introduce realize callback
> nvdimm: implement NVDIMM device abstract
> nvdimm: init the address region used by NVDIMM ACPI
> nvdimm: build ACPI NFIT table
> nvdimm: init the address region used by DSM method
> nvdimm: build ACPI nvdimm devices
> nvdimm: save arg3 for NVDIMM device _DSM method
> nvdimm: support DSM_CMD_IMPLEMENTED function
> nvdimm: support DSM_CMD_NAMESPACE_LABEL_SIZE function
> nvdimm: support DSM_CMD_GET_NAMESPACE_LABEL_DATA
> nvdimm: support DSM_CMD_SET_NAMESPACE_LABEL_DATA
> nvdimm: allow using whole backend memory as pmem
> nvdimm: add maintain info
>
> MAINTAINERS | 6 +
> backends/hostmem-file.c | 58 +-
> default-configs/i386-softmmu.mak | 2 +
> default-configs/x86_64-softmmu.mak | 2 +
> exec.c | 113 ++-
> hmp.c | 2 +-
> hw/Makefile.objs | 2 +-
> hw/acpi/aml-build.c | 83 ++
> hw/acpi/ich9.c | 8 +-
> hw/acpi/memory_hotplug.c | 26 +-
> hw/acpi/piix4.c | 8 +-
> hw/i386/acpi-build.c | 4 +
> hw/i386/pc.c | 37 +-
> hw/mem/Makefile.objs | 3 +
> hw/mem/{pc-dimm.c => dimm.c} | 240 ++---
> hw/mem/nvdimm/acpi.c | 961
> +++++++++++++++++++++
> hw/mem/nvdimm/internal.h | 41 +
> hw/mem/nvdimm/namespace.c | 309 +++++++
> hw/mem/nvdimm/nvdimm.c | 136 +++
> hw/mem/pc-dimm.c | 506 +----------
> hw/ppc/spapr.c | 20 +-
> include/hw/acpi/aml-build.h | 8 +
> include/hw/i386/pc.h | 4 +-
> include/hw/mem/{pc-dimm.h => dimm.h} | 68 +-
> include/hw/mem/nvdimm.h | 58 ++
> include/hw/mem/pc-dimm.h | 105 +--
> include/hw/ppc/spapr.h | 2 +-
> include/qemu/osdep.h | 1 +
> numa.c | 4 +-
> qapi-schema.json | 8 +-
> qmp.c | 4 +-
> stubs/Makefile.objs | 2 +-
> ...c_dimm_device_list.c => qmp_dimm_device_list.c} | 4 +-
> target-ppc/kvm.c | 21 +-
> trace-events | 8 +-
> util/oslib-posix.c | 16 +
> util/oslib-win32.c | 5 +
> 37 files changed, 2023 insertions(+), 862 deletions(-)
> rename hw/mem/{pc-dimm.c => dimm.c} (65%)
> create mode 100644 hw/mem/nvdimm/acpi.c
> create mode 100644 hw/mem/nvdimm/internal.h
> create mode 100644 hw/mem/nvdimm/namespace.c
> create mode 100644 hw/mem/nvdimm/nvdimm.c
> rewrite hw/mem/pc-dimm.c (91%)
> rename include/hw/mem/{pc-dimm.h => dimm.h} (50%)
> create mode 100644 include/hw/mem/nvdimm.h
> rewrite include/hw/mem/pc-dimm.h (97%)
> rename stubs/{qmp_pc_dimm_device_list.c => qmp_dimm_device_list.c} (56%)
>
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[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 16/32] pc-dimm: rename pc-dimm.c and pc-dimm.h, Xiao Guangrong, 2015/10/10
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 29/32] nvdimm: support DSM_CMD_GET_NAMESPACE_LABEL_DATA, Xiao Guangrong, 2015/10/10
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/32] implement vNVDIMM,
Bharata B Rao <=
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/32] implement vNVDIMM, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2015/10/12
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/32] implement vNVDIMM, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2015/10/19