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by Mike Holmes

Hi All The Stratos call will be upon us again next week; we don't have a key agenda item yet [1] I added a back of the envelope summary of the work happening Linaro, which is relevant to Stratos primarily from an Automotive context [2]. This is subject to a large number of caveats. Does anyone have a topic to raise? Mike [1] https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/STR/pages/28503343751/2021-06-10+P… [2] https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/STR/pages/28503377401/Demonstrable… -- Mike Holmes (he / him / his) | Director, Foundation Technologies, Linaro Mike.Holmes(a)linaro.org <mike.holmes(a)linaro.org> "Work should be fun and collaborative; the rest follows."

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[PATCH 0/5] virtio: Add vhost-user based RNG service

by Mathieu Poirier

Hi all, This sets adds a vhost-user based random number generator (RNG), similar to what has been done for i2c and virtiofsd. In fact the implementation for vhost-user-rng and vhost-user-rng-pci follow what was done for vhost-user-i2c. Applies cleanly to git://git.qemu.org/qemu.git master (52848929b70d). Regards, Mathieu Mathieu Poirier (5): vhost-user-rng: Add vhost-user-rng implementation vhost-user-rng-pci: Add vhost-user-rng-pci implementation vhost-user-rng: backend: Add RNG vhost-user daemon implementation docs: Add documentation for vhost based RNG implementation MAINTAINERS: Add maintainer for vhost-user RNG implementation MAINTAINERS | 9 + docs/tools/vhost-user-rng.rst | 74 +++++ hw/virtio/Kconfig | 5 + hw/virtio/meson.build | 2 + hw/virtio/vhost-user-rng-pci.c | 79 +++++ hw/virtio/vhost-user-rng.c | 294 +++++++++++++++++ include/hw/virtio/vhost-user-rng.h | 33 ++ tools/meson.build | 8 + tools/vhost-user-rng/50-qemu-rng.json.in | 5 + tools/vhost-user-rng/main.c | 403 +++++++++++++++++++++++ tools/vhost-user-rng/meson.build | 10 + 11 files changed, 922 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/tools/vhost-user-rng.rst create mode 100644 hw/virtio/vhost-user-rng-pci.c create mode 100644 hw/virtio/vhost-user-rng.c create mode 100644 include/hw/virtio/vhost-user-rng.h create mode 100644 tools/vhost-user-rng/50-qemu-rng.json.in create mode 100644 tools/vhost-user-rng/main.c create mode 100644 tools/vhost-user-rng/meson.build -- 2.25.1

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[RUST] Add crate for generic vhost-user-i2c backend daemon

by Viresh Kumar

Hello, In my earlier attempt [1], I implemented the vhost-user-i2c backend deamon for QEMU (though the code was generic enough to be used with any hypervisor). And here is a Rust implementation of the vhost-user-i2c backend daemon. Again this is generic enough to be used with any hypervisor and can live in its own repository now: https://github.com/vireshk/vhost-user-i2c I am not sure what's the process to get this merged to Rust-vmm. Can someone help ? Is that the right thing to do ? -------------------------8<------------------------- Here are other details (which are same since the earlier Qemu attempt): This is an initial implementation of a generic vhost-user backend for the I2C bus. This is based of the virtio specifications (already merged) for the I2C bus. The kernel virtio I2C driver is still under review, here [2] is the latest version (v10): The backend is implemented as a vhost-user device because we want to experiment in making portable backends that can be used with multiple hypervisors. We also want to support backends isolated in their own separate service VMs with limited memory cross-sections with the principle guest. This is part of a wider initiative by Linaro called "project Stratos" for which you can find information here: https://collaborate.linaro.org/display/STR/Stratos+Home I2C Testing: ------------ I didn't have access to a real hardware where I can play with a I2C client device (like RTC, eeprom, etc) to verify the working of the backend daemon, so I decided to test it on my x86 box itself with hierarchy of two ARM64 guests. The first ARM64 guest was passed "-device ds1338,address=0x20" option, so it could emulate a ds1338 RTC device, which connects to an I2C bus. Once the guest came up, ds1338 device instance was created within the guest kernel by doing: echo ds1338 0x20 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-0/new_device [ Note that this may end up binding the ds1338 device to its driver, which won't let our i2c daemon talk to the device. For that we need to manually unbind the device from the driver: echo 0-0020 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/0-0020/driver/unbind ] After this is done, you will get /dev/rtc1. This is the device we wanted to emulate, which will be accessed by the vhost-user-i2c backend daemon via the /dev/i2c-0 file present in the guest VM. At this point we need to start the backend daemon and give it a socket-path to talk to from qemu (you can pass -v to it to get more detailed messages): target/debug/vhost-user-i2c --socket-path=vi2c.sock -l 0:32 [ Here, 0:32 is the bus/device mapping, 0 for /dev/i2c-0 and 32 (i.e. 0x20) is client address of ds1338 that we used while creating the device. ] Now we need to start the second level ARM64 guest (from within the first guest) to get the i2c-virtio.c Linux driver up. The second level guest is passed the following options to connect to the same socket: -chardev socket,path=vi2c.sock,id=vi2c \ -device vhost-user-i2c-pci,chardev=vi2c,id=i2c Once the second level guest boots up, we will see the i2c-virtio bus at /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-X/. From there we can now make it emulate the ds1338 device again by doing: echo ds1338 0x20 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-0/new_device [ This time we want ds1338's driver to be bound to the device, so it should be enabled in the kernel as well. ] And we will get /dev/rtc1 device again here in the second level guest. Now we can play with the rtc device with help of hwclock utility and we can see the following sequence of transfers happening if we try to update rtc's time from system time. hwclock -w -f /dev/rtc1 (in guest2) -> Reaches i2c-virtio.c (Linux bus driver in guest2) -> transfer over virtio -> Reaches the qemu's vhost-i2c device emulation (running over guest1) -> Reaches the backend daemon vhost-user-i2c started earlier (in guest1) -> ioctl(/dev/i2c-0, I2C_RDWR, ..); (in guest1) -> reaches qemu's hw/rtc/ds1338.c (running over host) SMBUS Testing: -------------- I wasn't required to have such a tedious setup for testing out with SMBUS devices. I was able to emulate a SMBUS device on my x86 machine using i2c-stub driver. $ modprobe i2c-stub chip_addr=0x20 //Boot the arm64 guest now with i2c-virtio driver and then do: $ echo al3320a 0x20 > /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/new_device $ cat /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:device0/in_illuminance_raw That's it. I hope I was able to give a clear picture of my test setup here :) -- viresh [1] https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/cover.1617278395.git.viresh.kumar@linaro… [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/226a8d5663b7bb6f5d06ede7701eedb18d1bafa1.16164…

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*change of time* for next weeks Stratos Sync meeting

by Alex Bennée

Hi Everyone, (apologies to anyone missed from the wide bcc list) For next weeks sync we'll have the postponed presentation on Qualcomm's Gunyah hypervisor which has been recently open sourced: https://github.com/quic/gunyah-hypervisor as you may be aware the name of the project comes from an Australian Aboriginal word and has been developed by a team in Sydney. For the next meeting only I've moved it to 9:30 London time it's not too late for our friends on the other side of the world. I appreciate this makes it harder for some to attend from the Americas. I shall see if it's possible to record the session for those who need to catch up. I've updated the project calendar and would like to take this opportunity to remind you of it's URL: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=c_j7ngi1o8rlofkped4r5ch98mvg… by subscribing to that you won't be subject to the whims of any individuals diary changes. -- Alex Bennée

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by Alex Bennée

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Re: [Stratos-dev] Linaro Stratos virtio discussions Agenda

by Trilok Soni

Hi Peter, Thanks for noticing the announcement. We will arrange the presentation in two weeks and intersect w/ Project Stratos call. In the meantime you can try the QEMU based release and provide feedback. ---Trilok Soni -----Original Message----- From: Stratos-dev <stratos-dev-bounces(a)op-lists.linaro.org> On Behalf Of Peter Griffin via Stratos-dev Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2021 2:48 AM To: Mike Holmes <mike.holmes(a)linaro.org> Cc: Stratos Mailing List <stratos-dev(a)op-lists.linaro.org> Subject: Re: [Stratos-dev] Linaro Stratos virtio discussions Agenda ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi folks, On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 at 08:52, Mike Holmes via Stratos-dev < stratos-dev(a)op-lists.linaro.org> wrote: > Hi All > > It is time to generate an agendahttps:// > collaborate.linaro.org/display/STR/Stratos+Home > Do we have any topics for the call? > I noticed on LinkedIn (from Trilok) that QUIC has pushed https://github.com/quic/gunyah-hypervisor open source. So maybe an overview of what the plans / roadmap are for that project might be useful, either for this call or a future one if it is possible to talk about publicly? Thanks, Peter. > > Mike > > -- > Mike Holmes | Director, Foundation Technologies, Linaro > Mike.Holmes(a)linaro.org <mike.holmes(a)linaro.org> "Work should be fun > and collaborative; the rest follows." > -- > Stratos-dev mailing list > Stratos-dev(a)op-lists.linaro.org > https://op-lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/stratos-dev > -- Stratos-dev mailing list Stratos-dev(a)op-lists.linaro.org https://op-lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/stratos-dev

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Re: [Stratos-dev] Linaro Stratos virtio discussions Agenda

by Peter Griffin

Hi folks, On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 at 08:52, Mike Holmes via Stratos-dev < stratos-dev(a)op-lists.linaro.org> wrote: > Hi All > > It is time to generate an agendahttps:// > collaborate.linaro.org/display/STR/Stratos+Home > Do we have any topics for the call? > I noticed on LinkedIn (from Trilok) that QUIC has pushed https://github.com/quic/gunyah-hypervisor open source. So maybe an overview of what the plans / roadmap are for that project might be useful, either for this call or a future one if it is possible to talk about publicly? Thanks, Peter. > > Mike > > -- > Mike Holmes | Director, Foundation Technologies, Linaro > Mike.Holmes(a)linaro.org <mike.holmes(a)linaro.org> > "Work should be fun and collaborative; the rest follows." > -- > Stratos-dev mailing list > Stratos-dev(a)op-lists.linaro.org > https://op-lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/stratos-dev >

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Linaro Stratos virtio discussions Agenda

by Mike Holmes

Hi All It is time to generate an agendahttps:// collaborate.linaro.org/display/STR/Stratos+Home Do we have any topics for the call? Mike -- Mike Holmes | Director, Foundation Technologies, Linaro Mike.Holmes(a)linaro.org <mike.holmes(a)linaro.org> "Work should be fun and collaborative; the rest follows."

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Re: [Stratos-dev] virtio-scmi backend on Zephyr as both Xen DomU and Jailhouse Partition demo suggestion

by AKASHI Takahiro

Hi Alex, On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 08:34:54AM +0000, Alex Benn??e via Stratos-dev wrote: > > Alex Bennée via Stratos-dev <stratos-dev(a)op-lists.linaro.org> writes: > > > Hi All, > > > > We've been discussing various ideas for Stratos in and around STR-7 > > (common virtio library). I'd originally de-emphasised the STR-7 work > > because I wasn't sure if this was duplicate effort given we already had > > libvhost-user as well as interest in rust-vmm for portable backends in > > user-space. However we have seen from the Windriver hypervisor-less > > virtio, NXP's Zephyr/Jailhouse and the requirements for the SCMI server > > that there is a use-case for a small, liberally licensed C library that > > is suitable for embedding in lightweight backends without a full Linux > > stack behind it. These workloads would run in either simple command > > loops, RTOSes or Unikernels. > > > > Given the multiple interested parties I'm hoping we have enough people > > who can devote time to collaborate on the project to make the following > > realistic over the next cycle and culminate in the following demo in 6 > > months: > > > > Components > > ========== > > > > portable virtio backend library > > ------------------------------- > > > > * source based library (so you include directly in your project) > > * liberally licensed (Apache? to facilitate above) > > * tailored for non-POSIX, limited resource setups > > - e.g. avoid malloc/free, provide abstraction hooks where needed > > - not assume OS facilities (so embeddable in RTOS or Unikernel) > > - static virtio configuration supplied from outside library (location > > of queues etc) > > * hypervisor agnostic > > - provide a hook to signal when queues need processing > > Following on from a discussion with Vincent and Akashi-san last week we > need to think more about how to make this hypervisor agnostic. There > will always be some code that has to live outside the library but if it > ends up being the same amount again what have we gained? > > > I suspect this should be a from scratch implementation but it's > > certainly worth investigating the BSD implementation as Windriver have > > suggested. > > > > > > SCMI server > > ----------- > > > > This is the work product of STR-4, embedded in an RTOS. I'm suggesting > > Zephyr makes the most sense here given the previous work done by Peng > > and Akashi-san but I guess an argument could be made for a unikernel. I > > would suggest demonstrating portability to a unikernel would be a > > stretch goal for the demo. > > > > The server would be *build* time selectable to deploy either in a > > Jailhouse partition or a Xen Dom U deployment. Either way there will > > need to be an out-of-band communication of location of virtual queues > > and memory maps - I assume via DTB. > > From our discussion last week Zephry's DTB support is very limited and > not designed to cope with dynamic setups. So rather than having two > build time selectable configurations we should opt for a single binary > with a fixed expectation of where the remote guests memory and > virtqueues will exist in it's memory space. I'm still a bit skeptical about "single binary with a fixed expectation" concept. - Is it feasible to expect that all the hypervisors would configure a BE domain in the same way (in respect of assigning a memory region or an interrupt number)? - what if we want a BE domain to - provide different type of virtio devices - support more than one frontend demains at the same time? How can a single binary without ability of dynamic configuration deal with those requirements? > It will then be up to the > VMM setting things up to ensure everything is mapped in the appropriate > place in the RTOS memory map. There would also be a fixed IRQ map for > signalling when things are changes to the RTOS and a fixed doorbell for > signalling the other way. We should think of two different phases: 1) virtio setup/negotiation via MMIO configuration space 2) (virtio device specific) operation via virtqueue Anyway, signaling mechanism can be different from hypervisor to hypervisor; On Xen, for example, - the notification of MMIO's to the configuration space by FE will be trapped and delivered via an event channel + dedicated "shared IO page" - the notification of virtqueue update from BE to FE will be done via another event channel, not by interrupt. Another topic is "virtio device specific configuration parameters," for instance, a file path as backend storage for a virtio block. We might need out-of-band(side-band?) communication channel to feed those information to a BE domain. (For Xen, xenstore is used for this purpose in EPAM's virtio-disk implemenetation.) > > > > I'm unfamiliar with the RTOS build process but I guess this would be a > > single git repository with the RTOS and glue code and git sub-projects > > for the virtio and scmi libraries? I think that Zephyr's build process (cmake) allows us to import a library from an external repository. > > Deployments > > =========== > > > > To demonstrate portability we would have: > > > > - Xen hypervisor > > - Dom0 with Linux/xen tools > > - DomU with Linux with a virtio-scmi front-end > > - DomU with RTOS/SCMI server with virtio-scmi back-end > > > > The Dom0 in this case is just for convenience of the demo as we don't > > currently have a fully working dom0-less setup. The key communication is > > between the two DomU guests. > > However the Dom0 will need also the glue code to setup the communication > and memory mapping between the two DomU guests. I initially thought so, but after looking into Xen api's, I found that we have to call IOREQ-related hypervisor calls directly on a BE domain. At least under the current implementation, dom0 cannot call them on behalf of a BE domain. > This could happily link > with the existing Xen library for setting up the guest table mappings. > > > > > - Jailhouse > > - Linux kernel partition with virtio-scmi front-end > > - RTOS/SCMI server partition with a virtio-scmi back-end > > The RTOS/SCMI server would be the same binary blob as for Xen. Again > some glue setup code would be required. I'm still unsure on how this > would work for Jailhouse so if we don't have any Jailhouse expertise > joining the project we could do this with KVM instead. > > Linux/KVM host > - setup code in main host (kvmtool/QEMU launch) > - KVM guest with Linux with a virtio-scmi front-end > - KVM guest with RTOS/SCMI server with virtio-scmi back-end The easiest way of implementing BE for kvm is to utilize vhost-user library, but please note that this library internally uses socket(AF_UNIX) eventfd and mmap(), which are in some sense hypervisor-specific interfaces given that linux works as type-2 hypervisor :) Then it's not quite straightforward to port it to RTOS like Zephyr and I don't think a single binary would work both on Xen and kvm. -Takahiro Akashi > > This is closer to Windrivers' hypervisor-less virtio deployment as > > Jailhouse is not a "proper" hypervisor in this case just a way of > > partitioning up the resources. There will need to be some way for the > > kernel and server partitions to signal each other when queues are > > updated. > > > > Platform > > ======== > > > > We know we have working Xen on Synquacer and Jailhouse on the iMX. > > Should we target those as well as a QEMU -M virt for those who wish to > > play without hardware? > > > > > > Stretch Goals > > ============= > > > > * Integrate Arnd's fat virtqueues > > > > Hopefully this will be ready soon enough in the cycle that we can add > > this to the library and prototype the minimal memory cross section. > > This is dependant on having something at least sketched out early in the > cycle. It would allow us to simplify the shared memory mapping to just > plain virtqueus. > > > * Port the server/library to another RTOS/unikernel > > > > This would demonstrate the core code hasn't grown any assumptions > > about what it is running in. > > > > * Run the server blob on another hypervisor > > > > Running in KVM is probably boring at this point. Maybe investigate > > having it Hafnium? Or in a R-profile safety island setup? > > > > So what do people think? Thoughts? Comments? Volunteers? > > > -- > Alex Bennée > -- > Stratos-dev mailing list > Stratos-dev(a)op-lists.linaro.org > https://op-lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/stratos-dev

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Re: [Stratos-dev] Linaro Stratos Call this Thursday

by Mike Holmes

All, The meeting minutes are up, thanks for a lively discussion https://collaborate.linaro.org/display/STR/2021-04-15+Project+Stratos+Sync+… Mike On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 11:21 AM Mike Holmes via Stratos-dev < stratos-dev(a)op-lists.linaro.org> wrote: > Hi All > > We have a new agenda item > > > - Vincent: Should we consider static vs dynamic users of a backend > > > On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 12:51 PM Mike Holmes <mike.holmes(a)linaro.org> > wrote: > > > Hi All > > > > Do we have any topic proposals for this week? > > > > https://collaborate.linaro.org/display/STR/Stratos+Home > > > > Thanks Mike > > > > -- > > Mike Holmes | Director, Foundation Technologies, Linaro > > Mike.Holmes(a)linaro.org <mike.holmes(a)linaro.org> > > "Work should be fun and collaborative; the rest follows." > > > > > > -- > Mike Holmes | Director, Foundation Technologies, Linaro > Mike.Holmes(a)linaro.org <mike.holmes(a)linaro.org> > "Work should be fun and collaborative; the rest follows." > -- > Stratos-dev mailing list > Stratos-dev(a)op-lists.linaro.org > https://op-lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/stratos-dev > -- Mike Holmes | Director, Foundation Technologies, Linaro Mike.Holmes(a)linaro.org <mike.holmes(a)linaro.org> "Work should be fun and collaborative; the rest follows."

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