An I/O request of a User VM, which is constructed by the hypervisor, is
distributed by the ACRN Hypervisor Service Module to an I/O client
corresponding to the address range of the I/O request.
For each User VM, there is a shared 4-KByte memory region used for I/O
requests communication between the hypervisor and Service VM. An I/O
request is a 256-byte structure buffer, which is 'struct
acrn_io_request', that is filled by an I/O handler of the hypervisor
when a trapped I/O access happens in a User VM. ACRN userspace in the
Service VM first allocates a 4-KByte page and passes the GPA (Guest
Physical Address) of the buffer to the hypervisor. The buffer is used as
an array of 16 I/O request slots with each I/O request slot being 256
bytes. This array is indexed by vCPU ID.
An I/O client, which is 'struct acrn_ioreq_client', is responsible for
handling User VM I/O requests whose accessed GPA falls in a certain
range. Multiple I/O clients can be associated with each User VM. There
is a special client associated with each User VM, called the default
client, that handles all I/O requests that do not fit into the range of
any other I/O clients. The ACRN userspace acts as the default client for
each User VM.
The state transitions of a ACRN I/O request are as follows.
FREE -> PENDING -> PROCESSING -> COMPLETE -> FREE -> ...
FREE: this I/O request slot is empty
PENDING: a valid I/O request is pending in this slot
PROCESSING: the I/O request is being processed
COMPLETE: the I/O request has been processed
An I/O request in COMPLETE or FREE state is owned by the hypervisor. HSM
and ACRN userspace are in charge of processing the others.
The processing flow of I/O requests are listed as following:
a) The I/O handler of the hypervisor will fill an I/O request with
PENDING state when a trapped I/O access happens in a User VM.
b) The hypervisor makes an upcall, which is a notification interrupt, to
the Service VM.
c) The upcall handler schedules a worker to dispatch I/O requests.
d) The worker looks for the PENDING I/O requests, assigns them to
different registered clients based on the address of the I/O accesses,
updates their state to PROCESSING, and notifies the corresponding
client to handle.
e) The notified client handles the assigned I/O requests.
f) The HSM updates I/O requests states to COMPLETE and notifies the
hypervisor of the completion via hypercalls.
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Zhi Wang <zhi.a.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Yu Wang <yu1.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Zhi Wang <zhi.a.wang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Shuo Liu <shuo.a.liu@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210207031040.49576-10-shuo.a.liu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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