NVIDIA V100 GPUs have on-board RAM which is mapped into the host memory
space and accessible as normal RAM via an NVLink bus. The VFIO-PCI driver
implements special regions for such GPUs and emulates an NVLink bridge.
NVLink2-enabled POWER9 CPUs also provide address translation services
which includes an ATS shootdown (ATSD) register exported via the NVLink
bridge device.
This adds a quirk to VFIO to map the GPU memory and create an MR;
the new MR is stored in a PCI device as a QOM link. The sPAPR PCI uses
this to get the MR and map it to the system address space.
Another quirk does the same for ATSD.
This adds additional steps to sPAPR PHB setup:
1. Search for specific GPUs and NPUs, collect findings in
sPAPRPHBState::nvgpus, manage system address space mappings;
2. Add device-specific properties such as "ibm,npu", "ibm,gpu",
"memory-block", "link-speed" to advertise the NVLink2 function to
the guest;
3. Add "mmio-atsd" to vPHB to advertise the ATSD capability;
4. Add new memory blocks (with extra "linux,memory-usable" to prevent
the guest OS from accessing the new memory until it is onlined) and
npuphb# nodes representing an NPU unit for every vPHB as the GPU driver
uses it for link discovery.
This allocates space for GPU RAM and ATSD like we do for MMIOs by
adding 2 new parameters to the phb_placement() hook. Older machine types
set these to zero.
This puts new memory nodes in a separate NUMA node to as the GPU RAM
needs to be configured equally distant from any other node in the system.
Unlike the host setup which assigns numa ids from 255 downwards, this
adds new NUMA nodes after the user configures nodes or from 1 if none
were configured.
This adds requirement similar to EEH - one IOMMU group per vPHB.
The reason for this is that ATSD registers belong to a physical NPU
so they cannot invalidate translations on GPUs attached to another NPU.
It is guaranteed by the host platform as it does not mix NVLink bridges
or GPUs from different NPU in the same IOMMU group. If more than one
IOMMU group is detected on a vPHB, this disables ATSD support for that
vPHB and prints a warning.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
[aw: for vfio portions]
Acked-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20190312082103.130561-1-aik@ozlabs.ru>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
QEMU README
===========
QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
virtualizer.
QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any
need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation,
it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen
and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the
hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve
near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is
capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7
board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board).
QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux
and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one
architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a
different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not
involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation.
QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly
by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings.
It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management
layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API.
It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using
open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager.
QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file.
Building
========
QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern
Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety
of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are:
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website:
https://qemu.org/Hosts/Linux
https://qemu.org/Hosts/Mac
https://qemu.org/Hosts/W32
Submitting patches
==================
The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system.
git clone https://git.qemu.org/git/qemu.git
When submitting patches, one common approach is to use 'git
format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the
qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain
a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the
guidelines set out in the HACKING and CODING_STYLE files.
Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via
the QEMU website
https://qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
https://qemu.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches
The QEMU website is also maintained under source control.
git clone https://git.qemu.org/git/qemu-web.git
https://www.qemu.org/2017/02/04/the-new-qemu-website-is-up/
A 'git-publish' utility was created to make above process less
cumbersome, and is highly recommended for making regular contributions,
or even just for sending consecutive patch series revisions. It also
requires a working 'git send-email' setup, and by default doesn't
automate everything, so you may want to go through the above steps
manually for once.
For installation instructions, please go to
https://github.com/stefanha/git-publish
The workflow with 'git-publish' is:
$ git checkout master -b my-feature
$ # work on new commits, add your 'Signed-off-by' lines to each
$ git publish
Your patch series will be sent and tagged as my-feature-v1 if you need to refer
back to it in the future.
Sending v2:
$ git checkout my-feature # same topic branch
$ # making changes to the commits (using 'git rebase', for example)
$ git publish
Your patch series will be sent with 'v2' tag in the subject and the git tip
will be tagged as my-feature-v2.
Bug reporting
=============
The QEMU project uses Launchpad as its primary upstream bug tracker. Bugs
found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources
should be reported via:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/
If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it
is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If
the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be
reported via launchpad.
For additional information on bug reporting consult:
https://qemu.org/Contribute/ReportABug
Contact
=======
The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two
main methods being email and IRC
- qemu-devel@nongnu.org
https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
- #qemu on irc.oftc.net
Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be
found online via the QEMU website:
https://qemu.org/Contribute/StartHere
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