Re: [PATCH 0/15] KVM: MIPS: Add Loongson-3 support (Host Side)

[Jiaxun Yang]

On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 15:30:09 +0800
Huacai Chen <address@hidden> wrote:

> We are preparing to add KVM support for Loongson-3. VZ extension is
> fully supported in Loongson-3A R4+, and we will not care about old
> CPUs (at least now). We already have a full functional Linux kernel
> (based on Linux-5.4.x LTS) and QEMU (based on 5.0.0-rc2) and their git
> repositories are here:
> 
> QEMU: https://github.com/chenhuacai/qemu
> Kernel: https://github.com/chenhuacai/linux
> 
> Of course these two repositories need to be rework and not suitable
> for upstream (especially the commits need to be splitted). We show
> them here is just to tell others what we have done, and how
> KVM/Loongson will look like.
> 
> Our plan is make the KVM host side be upstream first, and after that,
> we will make the KVM guest side and QEMU emulator be upstream.

+ Aleksandar as QEMU/MIPS mainatiner

I was involved in KVM/Loongson development a bit and also intend to
help with mainline these works.

After dealing with basic LS7A PCH kernel support, I'm going to
cooperate with Huacai and anyone who interested in to deal with
following stuff:

- Basic QEMU/TCG support for Loongson64 instructions.
        Well, it seems unrelated with KVM, but that would make
        development easier with cross ISA emulation. I'm not going to
        implement all the features like Loongson's page table fast walk
        extension and binary translation extension but I'll ensure any
        binary compiled with march=loongson3a can run flawlessly on
        TCG.

- Design of Loongson-VIRT QEMU machine
        It is nearly impossible to bring a real Loongson system into
        QEMU. Both RS780E and LS7A PCH have tons of unreasonable design
        that would make the emulation extremely complex, Loongson
        company's KVM implementation[1] has already proofed that,
        thay're now in the hell. So we all agreed that we should build
        a machine from draft. I think we should reuse existing infra as
        far as possible to reduce our work load. I'm planing to use
        pci-host-cam-generic together with VIRTIO PCI devices and a
        a strip down version of loongson,liointc-1.0a to build a pure
        PCI based system. But if any one have better idea please just
        tell us, I'm still considering how to implement SMP-IPI and ACPI
        stuff.

- BIOS in VM
        This has a lower priority. But BIOS is required to make a
        emulated machine looks like a real machine. Loongson have their
        open-sourced PMON and close-sourced UEFI(Based on tianocore).
        I'd really with Loongson or Lemote will open-source their UEFI
        but PMON is also a option.

Any kind of feedback is appreciated.

Thanks.

Wish you good health :-)


[1]: http://cgit.loongnix.org/cgit/linux-3.10/ &
http://cgit.loongnix.org/cgit/qemu-2.7.0/

Btw: I think Cc qemu-devel for the whole series is a little bit
disturb, probably we should only Cc qemu-devel for the cover letter.

> 
> Mike Rapoport(1):
>  mips: define pud_index() regardless of page table folding
> 
> Xing Li(2):
>  KVM: MIPS: Define KVM_ENTRYHI_ASID to cpu_asid_mask(&boot_cpu_data)
>  KVM: MIPS: Fix VPN2_MASK definition for variable cpu_vmbits
> 
> Huacai Chen(12):
>  KVM: MIPS: Increase KVM_MAX_VCPUS and KVM_USER_MEM_SLOTS to 16
>  KVM: MIPS: Add EVENTFD support which is needed by VHOST
>  KVM: MIPS: Use lddir/ldpte instructions to lookup gpa_mm.pgd
>  KVM: MIPS: Introduce and use cpu_guest_has_ldpte
>  KVM: MIPS: Use root tlb to control guest's CCA for Loongson-3
>  KVM: MIPS: Let indexed cacheops cause guest exit on Loongson-3
>  KVM: MIPS: Add more types of virtual interrupts
>  KVM: MIPS: Add Loongson-3 Virtual IPI interrupt support
>  KVM: MIPS: Add CPUCFG emulation for Loongson-3
>  KVM: MIPS: Add CONFIG6 and DIAG registers emulation
>  KVM: MIPS: Add more MMIO load/store instructions emulation
>  KVM: MIPS: Enable KVM support for Loongson-3
> 
> Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <address@hidden>
> ---
>  arch/mips/Kconfig                    |   1 +
>  arch/mips/include/asm/cpu-features.h |   3 +
>  arch/mips/include/asm/kvm_host.h     |  50 +++-
>  arch/mips/include/asm/mipsregs.h     |   7 +
>  arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-64.h   |   4 +-
>  arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/inst.h    |  11 +
>  arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c         |   2 +
>  arch/mips/kvm/Kconfig                |   1 +
>  arch/mips/kvm/Makefile               |   5 +-
>  arch/mips/kvm/emulate.c              | 461
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- arch/mips/kvm/entry.c
>    |  19 +- arch/mips/kvm/interrupt.c            |  93 +------
>  arch/mips/kvm/interrupt.h            |  14 +-
>  arch/mips/kvm/loongson_ipi.c         | 215 ++++++++++++++++
>  arch/mips/kvm/mips.c                 |  49 +++-
>  arch/mips/kvm/tlb.c                  |  39 +++
>  arch/mips/kvm/trap_emul.c            |   3 +
>  arch/mips/kvm/vz.c                   | 204 +++++++++++-----
>  18 files changed, 1013 insertions(+), 168 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 arch/mips/kvm/loongson_ipi.c
> --
> 2.7.0