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authorStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>2016-11-15 19:50:06 +0000
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/mst/tags/for_upstream' into staging
virtio, vhost, pc, pci: documentation, fixes and cleanups Lots of fixes all over the place. Unfortunately, this does not yet fix a regression with vhost introduced by the last pull, the issue is typically this error: kvm_mem_ioeventfd_add: error adding ioeventfd: File exists followed by QEMU aborting. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> * remotes/mst/tags/for_upstream: (28 commits) docs: add PCIe devices placement guidelines virtio: drop virtio_queue_get_ring_{size,addr}() vhost: drop legacy vring layout bits vhost: adapt vhost_verify_ring_mappings() to virtio 1 ring layout nvdimm acpi: introduce NVDIMM_DSM_MEMORY_SIZE nvdimm acpi: use aml_name_decl to define named object nvdimm acpi: rename nvdimm_dsm_reserved_root nvdimm acpi: fix two comments nvdimm acpi: define DSM return codes nvdimm acpi: rename nvdimm_acpi_hotplug nvdimm acpi: cleanup nvdimm_build_fit nvdimm acpi: rename nvdimm_plugged_device_list docs: improve the doc of Read FIT method nvdimm acpi: clean up nvdimm_build_acpi pc: memhp: stop handling nvdimm hotplug in pc_dimm_unplug pc: memhp: move nvdimm hotplug out of memory hotplug nvdimm acpi: drop the lock of fit buffer qdev: hotplug: drop HotplugHandler.post_plug callback vhost: migration blocker only if shared log is used virtio-net: mark VIRTIO_NET_F_GSO as legacy ... Message-id: 1479237527-11846-1-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r--docs/specs/acpi_mem_hotplug.txt3
-rw-r--r--docs/specs/acpi_nvdimm.txt99
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diff --git a/docs/pcie.txt b/docs/pcie.txt
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+++ b/docs/pcie.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,310 @@
+PCI EXPRESS GUIDELINES
+======================
+
+1. Introduction
+================
+The doc proposes best practices on how to use PCI Express/PCI device
+in PCI Express based machines and explains the reasoning behind them.
+
+The following presentations accompany this document:
+ (1) Q35 overview.
+ http://wiki.qemu.org/images/4/4e/Q35.pdf
+ (2) A comparison between PCI and PCI Express technologies.
+ http://wiki.qemu.org/images/f/f6/PCIvsPCIe.pdf
+
+Note: The usage examples are not intended to replace the full
+documentation, please use QEMU help to retrieve all options.
+
+2. Device placement strategy
+============================
+QEMU does not have a clear socket-device matching mechanism
+and allows any PCI/PCI Express device to be plugged into any
+PCI/PCI Express slot.
+Plugging a PCI device into a PCI Express slot might not always work and
+is weird anyway since it cannot be done for "bare metal".
+Plugging a PCI Express device into a PCI slot will hide the Extended
+Configuration Space thus is also not recommended.
+
+The recommendation is to separate the PCI Express and PCI hierarchies.
+PCI Express devices should be plugged only into PCI Express Root Ports and
+PCI Express Downstream ports.
+
+2.1 Root Bus (pcie.0)
+=====================
+Place only the following kinds of devices directly on the Root Complex:
+ (1) PCI Devices (e.g. network card, graphics card, IDE controller),
+ not controllers. Place only legacy PCI devices on
+ the Root Complex. These will be considered Integrated Endpoints.
+ Note: Integrated Endpoints are not hot-pluggable.
+
+ Although the PCI Express spec does not forbid PCI Express devices as
+ Integrated Endpoints, existing hardware mostly integrates legacy PCI
+ devices with the Root Complex. Guest OSes are suspected to behave
+ strangely when PCI Express devices are integrated
+ with the Root Complex.
+
+ (2) PCI Express Root Ports (ioh3420), for starting exclusively PCI Express
+ hierarchies.
+
+ (3) DMI-PCI Bridges (i82801b11-bridge), for starting legacy PCI
+ hierarchies.
+
+ (4) Extra Root Complexes (pxb-pcie), if multiple PCI Express Root Buses
+ are needed.
+
+ pcie.0 bus
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ | | | |
+ ----------- ------------------ ------------------ --------------
+ | PCI Dev | | PCIe Root Port | | DMI-PCI Bridge | | pxb-pcie |
+ ----------- ------------------ ------------------ --------------
+
+2.1.1 To plug a device into pcie.0 as a Root Complex Integrated Endpoint use:
+ -device <dev>[,bus=pcie.0]
+2.1.2 To expose a new PCI Express Root Bus use:
+ -device pxb-pcie,id=pcie.1,bus_nr=x[,numa_node=y][,addr=z]
+ Only PCI Express Root Ports and DMI-PCI bridges can be connected
+ to the pcie.1 bus:
+ -device ioh3420,id=root_port1[,bus=pcie.1][,chassis=x][,slot=y][,addr=z] \
+ -device i82801b11-bridge,id=dmi_pci_bridge1,bus=pcie.1
+
+
+2.2 PCI Express only hierarchy
+==============================
+Always use PCI Express Root Ports to start PCI Express hierarchies.
+
+A PCI Express Root bus supports up to 32 devices. Since each
+PCI Express Root Port is a function and a multi-function
+device may support up to 8 functions, the maximum possible
+number of PCI Express Root Ports per PCI Express Root Bus is 256.
+
+Prefer grouping PCI Express Root Ports into multi-function devices
+to keep a simple flat hierarchy that is enough for most scenarios.
+Only use PCI Express Switches (x3130-upstream, xio3130-downstream)
+if there is no more room for PCI Express Root Ports.
+Please see section 4. for further justifications.
+
+Plug only PCI Express devices into PCI Express Ports.
+
+
+ pcie.0 bus
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ | | |
+ ------------- ------------- -------------
+ | Root Port | | Root Port | | Root Port |
+ ------------ ------------- -------------
+ | -------------------------|------------------------
+ ------------ | ----------------- |
+ | PCIe Dev | | PCI Express | Upstream Port | |
+ ------------ | Switch ----------------- |
+ | | | |
+ | ------------------- ------------------- |
+ | | Downstream Port | | Downstream Port | |
+ | ------------------- ------------------- |
+ -------------|-----------------------|------------
+ ------------
+ | PCIe Dev |
+ ------------
+
+2.2.1 Plugging a PCI Express device into a PCI Express Root Port:
+ -device ioh3420,id=root_port1,chassis=x,slot=y[,bus=pcie.0][,addr=z] \
+ -device <dev>,bus=root_port1
+2.2.2 Using multi-function PCI Express Root Ports:
+ -device ioh3420,id=root_port1,multifunction=on,chassis=x,slot=y[,bus=pcie.0][,addr=z.0] \
+ -device ioh3420,id=root_port2,chassis=x1,slot=y1[,bus=pcie.0][,addr=z.1] \
+ -device ioh3420,id=root_port3,chassis=x2,slot=y2[,bus=pcie.0][,addr=z.2] \
+2.2.2 Plugging a PCI Express device into a Switch:
+ -device ioh3420,id=root_port1,chassis=x,slot=y[,bus=pcie.0][,addr=z] \
+ -device x3130-upstream,id=upstream_port1,bus=root_port1[,addr=x] \
+ -device xio3130-downstream,id=downstream_port1,bus=upstream_port1,chassis=x1,slot=y1[,addr=z1]] \
+ -device <dev>,bus=downstream_port1
+
+Notes:
+ - (slot, chassis) pair is mandatory and must be
+ unique for each PCI Express Root Port.
+ - 'addr' parameter can be 0 for all the examples above.
+
+
+2.3 PCI only hierarchy
+======================
+Legacy PCI devices can be plugged into pcie.0 as Integrated Endpoints,
+but, as mentioned in section 5, doing so means the legacy PCI
+device in question will be incapable of hot-unplugging.
+Besides that use DMI-PCI Bridges (i82801b11-bridge) in combination
+with PCI-PCI Bridges (pci-bridge) to start PCI hierarchies.
+
+Prefer flat hierarchies. For most scenarios a single DMI-PCI Bridge
+(having 32 slots) and several PCI-PCI Bridges attached to it
+(each supporting also 32 slots) will support hundreds of legacy devices.
+The recommendation is to populate one PCI-PCI Bridge under the DMI-PCI Bridge
+until is full and then plug a new PCI-PCI Bridge...
+
+ pcie.0 bus
+ ----------------------------------------------
+ | |
+ ----------- ------------------
+ | PCI Dev | | DMI-PCI BRIDGE |
+ ---------- ------------------
+ | |
+ ------------------ ------------------
+ | PCI-PCI Bridge | | PCI-PCI Bridge | ...
+ ------------------ ------------------
+ | |
+ ----------- -----------
+ | PCI Dev | | PCI Dev |
+ ----------- -----------
+
+2.3.1 To plug a PCI device into pcie.0 as an Integrated Endpoint use:
+ -device <dev>[,bus=pcie.0]
+2.3.2 Plugging a PCI device into a PCI-PCI Bridge:
+ -device i82801b11-bridge,id=dmi_pci_bridge1[,bus=pcie.0] \
+ -device pci-bridge,id=pci_bridge1,bus=dmi_pci_bridge1[,chassis_nr=x][,addr=y] \
+ -device <dev>,bus=pci_bridge1[,addr=x]
+ Note that 'addr' cannot be 0 unless shpc=off parameter is passed to
+ the PCI Bridge.
+
+3. IO space issues
+===================
+The PCI Express Root Ports and PCI Express Downstream ports are seen by
+Firmware/Guest OS as PCI-PCI Bridges. As required by the PCI spec, each
+such Port should be reserved a 4K IO range for, even though only one
+(multifunction) device can be plugged into each Port. This results in
+poor IO space utilization.
+
+The firmware used by QEMU (SeaBIOS/OVMF) may try further optimizations
+by not allocating IO space for each PCI Express Root / PCI Express
+Downstream port if:
+ (1) the port is empty, or
+ (2) the device behind the port has no IO BARs.
+
+The IO space is very limited, to 65536 byte-wide IO ports, and may even be
+fragmented by fixed IO ports owned by platform devices resulting in at most
+10 PCI Express Root Ports or PCI Express Downstream Ports per system
+if devices with IO BARs are used in the PCI Express hierarchy. Using the
+proposed device placing strategy solves this issue by using only
+PCI Express devices within PCI Express hierarchy.
+
+The PCI Express spec requires that PCI Express devices work properly
+without using IO ports. The PCI hierarchy has no such limitations.
+
+
+4. Bus numbers issues
+======================
+Each PCI domain can have up to only 256 buses and the QEMU PCI Express
+machines do not support multiple PCI domains even if extra Root
+Complexes (pxb-pcie) are used.
+
+Each element of the PCI Express hierarchy (Root Complexes,
+PCI Express Root Ports, PCI Express Downstream/Upstream ports)
+uses one bus number. Since only one (multifunction) device
+can be attached to a PCI Express Root Port or PCI Express Downstream
+Port it is advised to plan in advance for the expected number of
+devices to prevent bus number starvation.
+
+Avoiding PCI Express Switches (and thereby striving for a 'flatter' PCI
+Express hierarchy) enables the hierarchy to not spend bus numbers on
+Upstream Ports.
+
+The bus_nr properties of the pxb-pcie devices partition the 0..255 bus
+number space. All bus numbers assigned to the buses recursively behind a
+given pxb-pcie device's root bus must fit between the bus_nr property of
+that pxb-pcie device, and the lowest of the higher bus_nr properties
+that the command line sets for other pxb-pcie devices.
+
+
+5. Hot-plug
+============
+The PCI Express root buses (pcie.0 and the buses exposed by pxb-pcie devices)
+do not support hot-plug, so any devices plugged into Root Complexes
+cannot be hot-plugged/hot-unplugged:
+ (1) PCI Express Integrated Endpoints
+ (2) PCI Express Root Ports
+ (3) DMI-PCI Bridges
+ (4) pxb-pcie
+
+Be aware that PCI Express Downstream Ports can't be hot-plugged into
+an existing PCI Express Upstream Port.
+
+PCI devices can be hot-plugged into PCI-PCI Bridges. The PCI hot-plug is ACPI
+based and can work side by side with the PCI Express native hot-plug.
+
+PCI Express devices can be natively hot-plugged/hot-unplugged into/from
+PCI Express Root Ports (and PCI Express Downstream Ports).
+
+5.1 Planning for hot-plug:
+ (1) PCI hierarchy
+ Leave enough PCI-PCI Bridge slots empty or add one
+ or more empty PCI-PCI Bridges to the DMI-PCI Bridge.
+
+ For each such PCI-PCI Bridge the Guest Firmware is expected to reserve
+ 4K IO space and 2M MMIO range to be used for all devices behind it.
+
+ Because of the hard IO limit of around 10 PCI Bridges (~ 40K space)
+ per system don't use more than 9 PCI-PCI Bridges, leaving 4K for the
+ Integrated Endpoints. (The PCI Express Hierarchy needs no IO space).
+
+ (2) PCI Express hierarchy:
+ Leave enough PCI Express Root Ports empty. Use multifunction
+ PCI Express Root Ports (up to 8 ports per pcie.0 slot)
+ on the Root Complex(es), for keeping the
+ hierarchy as flat as possible, thereby saving PCI bus numbers.
+ Don't use PCI Express Switches if you don't have
+ to, each one of those uses an extra PCI bus (for its Upstream Port)
+ that could be put to better use with another Root Port or Downstream
+ Port, which may come handy for hot-plugging another device.
+
+
+5.3 Hot-plug example:
+Using HMP: (add -monitor stdio to QEMU command line)
+ device_add <dev>,id=<id>,bus=<PCI Express Root Port Id/PCI Express Downstream Port Id/PCI-PCI Bridge Id/>
+
+
+6. Device assignment
+====================
+Host devices are mostly PCI Express and should be plugged only into
+PCI Express Root Ports or PCI Express Downstream Ports.
+PCI-PCI Bridge slots can be used for legacy PCI host devices.
+
+6.1 How to detect if a device is PCI Express:
+ > lspci -s 03:00.0 -v (as root)
+
+ 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev 83)
+ Subsystem: Intel Corporation Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260
+ Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 50
+ Memory at f0400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
+ Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 3
+ Capabilities: [d0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
+ Capabilities: [40] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
+ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+ Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
+ Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number 7c-7a-91-ff-ff-90-db-20
+ Capabilities: [14c] Latency Tolerance Reporting
+ Capabilities: [154] Vendor Specific Information: ID=cafe Rev=1 Len=014
+
+If you can see the "Express Endpoint" capability in the
+output, then the device is indeed PCI Express.
+
+
+7. Virtio devices
+=================
+Virtio devices plugged into the PCI hierarchy or as Integrated Endpoints
+will remain PCI and have transitional behaviour as default.
+Transitional virtio devices work in both IO and MMIO modes depending on
+the guest support. The Guest firmware will assign both IO and MMIO resources
+to transitional virtio devices.
+
+Virtio devices plugged into PCI Express ports are PCI Express devices and
+have "1.0" behavior by default without IO support.
+In both cases disable-legacy and disable-modern properties can be used
+to override the behaviour.
+
+Note that setting disable-legacy=off will enable legacy mode (enabling
+legacy behavior) for PCI Express virtio devices causing them to
+require IO space, which, given the limited available IO space, may quickly
+lead to resource exhaustion, and is therefore strongly discouraged.
+
+
+8. Conclusion
+==============
+The proposal offers a usage model that is easy to understand and follow
+and at the same time overcomes the PCI Express architecture limitations.
diff --git a/docs/specs/acpi_mem_hotplug.txt b/docs/specs/acpi_mem_hotplug.txt
index cb26dd27c4..3df3620ce4 100644
--- a/docs/specs/acpi_mem_hotplug.txt
+++ b/docs/specs/acpi_mem_hotplug.txt
@@ -4,9 +4,6 @@ QEMU<->ACPI BIOS memory hotplug interface
ACPI BIOS GPE.3 handler is dedicated for notifying OS about memory hot-add
and hot-remove events.
-ACPI BIOS GPE.4 handler is dedicated for notifying OS about nvdimm device
-hot-add and hot-remove events.
-
Memory hot-plug interface (IO port 0xa00-0xa17, 1-4 byte access):
---------------------------------------------------------------
0xa00:
diff --git a/docs/specs/acpi_nvdimm.txt b/docs/specs/acpi_nvdimm.txt
index 4aa5e3de29..3f322e6f55 100644
--- a/docs/specs/acpi_nvdimm.txt
+++ b/docs/specs/acpi_nvdimm.txt
@@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ _FIT(Firmware Interface Table)
The detailed definition of the structure can be found at ACPI 6.0: 5.2.25
NVDIMM Firmware Interface Table (NFIT).
-QEMU NVDIMM Implemention
-========================
+QEMU NVDIMM Implementation
+==========================
QEMU uses 4 bytes IO Port starting from 0x0a18 and a RAM-based memory page
for NVDIMM ACPI.
@@ -80,8 +80,17 @@ Memory:
emulates _DSM access and writes the output data to it.
ACPI writes _DSM Input Data (based on the offset in the page):
- [0x0 - 0x3]: 4 bytes, NVDIMM Device Handle, 0 is reserved for NVDIMM
- Root device.
+ [0x0 - 0x3]: 4 bytes, NVDIMM Device Handle.
+
+ The handle is completely QEMU internal thing, the values in
+ range [1, 0xFFFF] indicate nvdimm device. Other values are
+ reserved for other purposes.
+
+ Reserved handles:
+ 0 is reserved for nvdimm root device named NVDR.
+ 0x10000 is reserved for QEMU internal DSM function called on
+ the root device.
+
[0x4 - 0x7]: 4 bytes, Revision ID, that is the Arg1 of _DSM method.
[0x8 - 0xB]: 4 bytes. Function Index, that is the Arg2 of _DSM method.
[0xC - 0xFFF]: 4084 bytes, the Arg3 of _DSM method.
@@ -127,28 +136,17 @@ _DSM process diagram:
| result from the page | | |
+--------------------------+ +--------------+
-Device Handle Reservation
--------------------------
-As we mentioned above, byte 0 ~ byte 3 in the DSM memory save NVDIMM device
-handle. The handle is completely QEMU internal thing, the values in range
-[0, 0xFFFF] indicate nvdimm device (O means nvdimm root device named NVDR),
-other values are reserved by other purpose.
-
-Current reserved handle:
-0x10000 is reserved for QEMU internal DSM function called on the root
-device.
+NVDIMM hotplug
+--------------
+ACPI BIOS GPE.4 handler is dedicated for notifying OS about nvdimm device
+hot-add event.
QEMU internal use only _DSM function
------------------------------------
-UUID, 648B9CF2-CDA1-4312-8AD9-49C4AF32BD62, is reserved for QEMU internal
-DSM function.
-
-There is the function introduced by QEMU and only used by QEMU internal.
-
1) Read FIT
- As we only reserved one page for NVDIMM ACPI it is impossible to map the
- whole FIT data to guest's address space. This function is used by _FIT
- method to read a piece of FIT data from QEMU.
+ _FIT method uses _DSM method to fetch NFIT structures blob from QEMU
+ in 1 page sized increments which are then concatenated and returned
+ as _FIT method result.
Input parameters:
Arg0 – UUID {set to 648B9CF2-CDA1-4312-8AD9-49C4AF32BD62}
@@ -156,29 +154,34 @@ There is the function introduced by QEMU and only used by QEMU internal.
Arg2 - Function Index, 0x1
Arg3 - A package containing a buffer whose layout is as follows:
- +----------+-------------+-------------+-----------------------------------+
- | Filed | Byte Length | Byte Offset | Description |
- +----------+-------------+-------------+-----------------------------------+
- | offset | 4 | 0 | the offset of FIT buffer |
- +----------+-------------+-------------+-----------------------------------+
-
- Output:
- +----------+-------------+-------------+-----------------------------------+
- | Filed | Byte Length | Byte Offset | Description |
- +----------+-------------+-------------+-----------------------------------+
- | | | | return status codes |
- | | | | 0x100 indicates fit has been |
- | status | 4 | 0 | updated |
- | | | | other follows Chapter 3 in DSM |
- | | | | Spec Rev1 |
- +----------+-------------+-------------+-----------------------------------+
- | fit data | Varies | 4 | FIT data |
- | | | | |
- +----------+-------------+-------------+-----------------------------------+
-
- The FIT offset is maintained by the caller itself, current offset plugs
- the length returned by the function is the next offset we should read.
- When all the FIT data has been read out, zero length is returned.
-
- If it returns 0x100, OSPM should restart to read FIT (read from offset 0
- again).
+ +----------+--------+--------+-------------------------------------------+
+ | Field | Length | Offset | Description |
+ +----------+--------+--------+-------------------------------------------+
+ | offset | 4 | 0 | offset in QEMU's NFIT structures blob to |
+ | | | | read from |
+ +----------+--------+--------+-------------------------------------------+
+
+ Output layout in the dsm memory page:
+ +----------+--------+--------+-------------------------------------------+
+ | Field | Length | Offset | Description |
+ +----------+--------+--------+-------------------------------------------+
+ | length | 4 | 0 | length of entire returned data |
+ | | | | (including this header) |
+ +----------+-----------------+-------------------------------------------+
+ | | | | return status codes |
+ | | | | 0x0 - success |
+ | | | | 0x100 - error caused by NFIT update while |
+ | status | 4 | 4 | read by _FIT wasn't completed, other |
+ | | | | codes follow Chapter 3 in DSM Spec Rev1 |
+ +----------+-----------------+-------------------------------------------+
+ | fit data | Varies | 8 | contains FIT data, this field is present |
+ | | | | if status field is 0; |
+ +----------+--------+--------+-------------------------------------------+
+
+ The FIT offset is maintained by the OSPM itself, current offset plus
+ the size of the fit data returned by the function is the next offset
+ OSPM should read. When all FIT data has been read out, zero fit data
+ size is returned.
+
+ If it returns status code 0x100, OSPM should restart to read FIT (read
+ from offset 0 again).