Re: [Xen-users] Grant iomem access and map IRQs to a domU guest in Xen for ARM targets

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 20:25 +0000, Kapania, Ashish wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am working on running a RTOS as a domU guest on a omap5 evm (Cortex-A15).
> As part of this effort, I need to create drivers for certain peripherals
> that are owned by the domU guest (basically make the domU a driver domain for
> certain peripherals). In order to achieve this I need to be able to grant
> domU access to certain memory mapped registers and map a SPI IRQ generated by
> the hw peripheral to it.
> 
> I went through the xl.cfg documentation and my understanding is that it
> supports 2 options called "iomem" and "irqs" that I can use to achieve the
> aforementioned purpose when creating a guest. However, it looks like these are
> not implemented in Xen-ARM. My question is that what is the recommended way of
> achieving this in Xen for ARM targets ?

Support for iomem= is being worked on right now. See patches from
Arianna Avanzini on xen-devel over the last few months. Julien Grall is
also working on irq passthrough which I think will integrate irqs=
support but also a "higher level" ability to passthrough a device based
on e.g. device tree nodes without having to worry about the specific
resources. I'm not sure when this will be ready though.

In the meantime (and with the Xen 4.4 release) people who want this
functionality have just been hacking the hypervisor to add the specific
mappings which they need to the domU domains. The key functions in the
hypervisor are map_mmio_regions and route_irq_to_guest (see
xen/arch/arm/platforms/*.c for examples of using these to route devices
which are not described in devicetree to dom0, which is a bit similar to
what you want)

I'm not sure how people have been triggering these extra mappings. I
suppose you could either do it statically for each domid==N e.g. in
arch_domain_create (but then you can't easily restart the guests) or you
could add a custom domctl and add a call in the toolstack, or a new
DOMCRF_ flag (which gets passed to arch_domain_create).

Are the devices you wish to pass through DMA capable? Unless they are
being an SMMU that will make things more complex.

Hope that helps,

Ian.


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