/*P:200 This contains all the /dev/lguest code, whereby the userspace launcher
* controls and communicates with the Guest. For example, the first write will
* tell us the Guest's memory layout and entry point. A read will run the
* Guest until something happens, such as a signal or the Guest doing a NOTIFY
* out to the Launcher.
:*/
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <linux/miscdevice.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/eventfd.h>
#include <linux/file.h>
#include "lg.h"
/*L:056
* Before we move on, let's jump ahead and look at what the kernel does when
* it needs to look up the eventfds. That will complete our picture of how we
* use RCU.
*
* The notification value is in cpu->pending_notify: we return true if it went
* to an eventfd.
*/
bool send_notify_to_eventfd(struct lg_cpu *cpu)
{
unsigned int i;
struct lg_eventfd_map *map;
/*
* This "rcu_read_lock()" helps track when someone is still looking at
* the (RCU-using) eventfds array. It's not actually a lock at all;
* indeed it's a noop in many configurations. (You didn't expect me to
* explain all the RCU secrets here, did you?)
*/
rcu_read_lock();
/*
* rcu_dereference is the counter-side of rcu_assign_pointer(); it
* makes sure we don't access the memory pointed to by
* cpu->lg->eventfds before cpu->lg->eventfds is set. Sounds crazy,
* but Alpha allows this! Paul McKenney points out that a really
* aggressive compiler could have the same effect:
* http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/lguest/2009-July/001560.html
*
* So play safe, use rcu_dereference to get the rcu-protected pointer:
*/
map = rcu_dereference(cpu->lg->eventfds);
/*
* Simple array search: even if they add an eventfd while we do this,
* we'll continue to use the old array and just won't see the new one.
*/
for (i = 0; i < map->num; i++) {
if (map->map[i].addr == cpu->pending_notify) {
eventfd_signal(map->map[i].event, 1);
cpu->pending_notify = 0;
break;
}
}
/* We're done with the rcu-protected variable cpu->lg->eventfds. */
rcu_read_unlock();
/* If we cleared the notification, it's because we found a match. */
return cpu->pending_notify == 0;
}
/*L:055
* One of the more tricksy tricks in the Linux Kernel is a technique called
* Read Copy Update. Since one point of lguest is to teach lguest journeyers
* about kernel coding, I use it here. (In case you're curious, other purposes
* include learning about virtualization and instilling a deep appreciation for
* simplicity and puppies).
*
* We keep a simple array which maps LHCALL_NOTIFY values to eventfds, but we
* add new eventfds without ever blocking readers from accessing the array.
* The current Launcher only does this during boot, so that never happens. But
* Read Copy Update is cool, and adding a lock risks damaging even more puppies
* than this code does.
*
* We allocate a brand new one-larger array, copy the old one and add our new
* element. Then we make the lg eventfd pointer point to the new array.
* That's the easy part: now we need to free the old one, but we need to make
* sure no slow CPU somewhere is still looking at it. That's what
* synchronize_rcu does for us: waits until every CPU has indicated that it has
* moved on to know it's no longer using the old one.
*
* If that's unclear, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read-copy-update.
*/
static int add_eventfd(struct lguest *lg, unsigned long addr, int fd)
{
struct lg_eventfd_map *new, *old = lg->eventfds;
/*
* We don't allow notifications on value 0 anyway (pending_notify of
* 0 means "nothing pending").
*/
if (!addr)
return -EINVAL;
/*
* Replace the old array with the new one, carefully: others can
* be accessing it at the same time.
*/
new = kmalloc(sizeof(*new) + sizeof(new->map[0]) * (old->num + 1),
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!new)
return -ENOMEM;
/* First make identical copy. */
memcpy(new->map, old->map, sizeof(old->map[0]) * old->num);
new->num = old->num;
/* Now append new entry. */
new->map[new->num].addr = addr;
new->map[new->num].event = eventfd_ctx_fdget(fd);
if (IS_ERR(new->map[new->num].event)) {
int err = PTR_ERR(new->map[new->num].event);
kfree(new);
return err;
}
new->num++;
/*
* Now put new one in place: rcu_assign_pointer() is a fancy way of
* doing "lg->eventfds = new", but it uses memory barriers to make
* absolutely sure that the contents of "new" written above is nailed
* down before we actually do the assignment.
*
* We have to think about these kinds of things when we're operating on
* live data without locks.
*/
rcu_assign_pointer(lg->eventfds, new);
/*
* We're not in a big hurry. Wait until noone's looking at old
* version, then free it.
*/
synchronize_rcu();
kfree(old);
return 0;
}
/*L:052
* Receiving notifications from the Guest is usually done by attaching a
* particular LHCALL_NOTIFY value to an event filedescriptor. The eventfd will
* become readable when the Guest does an LHCALL_NOTIFY with that value.
*
* This is really convenient for processing each virtqueue in a separate
* thread.
*/
static int attach_eventfd(struct lguest *lg, const unsigned long __user *input)
{
unsigned long addr, fd;
int err;
if (get_user(addr, input) != 0)
return -EFAULT;
input++;
if (get_user(fd, input) != 0)
return -EFAULT;
/*
* Just make sure two callers don't add eventfds at once. We really
* only need to lock against callers adding to the same Guest, so using
* the Big Lguest Lock is overkill. But this is setup, not a fast path.
*/
mutex_lock(&lguest_lock);
err = add_eventfd(lg, addr, fd);
mutex_unlock(&lguest_lock);
return err;
}
/*L:050
* Sending an interrupt is done by writing LHREQ_IRQ and an interrupt
* number to /dev/lguest.
*/
static int user_send_irq(struct lg_cpu *cpu, const unsigned long __user *input)
{
unsigned long irq;
if (get_user(irq, input) != 0)
return -EFAULT;
if (irq >= LGUEST_IRQS)
return -EINVAL;
/*
* Next time the Guest runs, the core code will see if it can deliver
* this interrupt.
*/
set_interrupt(cpu, irq);
return 0;
}
/*L:040
* Once our Guest is initialized, the Launcher makes it run by reading
* from /dev/lguest.
*/
static ssize_t read(struct file *file, char __user *user, size_t size,loff_t*o)
{
struct lguest *lg = file->private_data;
struct lg_cpu *cpu;
unsigned int cpu_id = *o;
/* You must write LHREQ_INITIALIZE first! */
if (!lg)
return -EINVAL;
/* Watch out for arbitrary vcpu indexes! */
if (cpu_id >= lg->nr_cpus)
return -EINVAL;
cpu = &lg->cpus[cpu_id];
/* If you're not the task which owns the Guest, go away. */
if (current != cpu->tsk)
return -EPERM;
/* If the Guest is already dead, we indicate why */
if (lg->dead) {
size_t len;
/* lg->dead either contains an error code, or a string. */
if (IS_ERR(lg->dead))
return PTR_ERR(lg->dead);
/* We can only return as much as the buffer they read with. */
len = min(size, strlen(lg->dead)+1);
if (copy_to_user(user, lg->dead, len) != 0)
return -EFAULT;
return len;
}
/*
* If we returned from read() last time because the Guest sent I/O,
* clear the flag.
*/
if (cpu->pending_notify)
cpu->pending_notify = 0;
/* Run the Guest until something interesting happens. */
return run_guest(cpu, (unsigned long __user *)user);
}
/*L:025
* This actually initializes a CPU. For the moment, a Guest is only
* uniprocessor, so "id" is always 0.
*/
static int lg_cpu_start(struct lg_cpu *cpu, unsigned id, unsigned long start_ip)
{
/* We have a limited number the number of CPUs in the lguest struct. */
if (id >= ARRAY_SIZE(cpu->lg->cpus))
return -EINVAL;
/* Set up this CPU's id, and pointer back to the lguest struct. */
cpu->id = id;
cpu->lg = container_of((cpu - id), struct lguest, cpus[0]);
cpu->lg->nr_cpus++;
/* Each CPU has a timer it can set. */
init_clockdev(cpu);
/*
* We need a complete page for the Guest registers: they are accessible
* to the Guest and we can only grant it access to whole pages.
*/
cpu->regs_page = get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);
if (!cpu->regs_page)
return -ENOMEM;
/* We actually put the registers at the bottom of the page. */
cpu->regs = (void *)cpu->regs_page + PAGE_SIZE - sizeof(*cpu->regs);
/*
* Now we initialize the Guest's registers, handing it the start
* address.
*/
lguest_arch_setup_regs(cpu, start_ip);
/*
* We keep a pointer to the Launcher task (ie. current task) for when
* other Guests want to wake this one (eg. console input).
*/
cpu->tsk = current;
/*
* We need to keep a pointer to the Launcher's memory map, because if
* the Launcher dies we need to clean it up. If we don't keep a
* reference, it is destroyed before close() is called.
*/
cpu->mm = get_task_mm(cpu->tsk);
/*
* We remember which CPU's pages this Guest used last, for optimization
* when the same Guest runs on the same CPU twice.
*/
cpu->last_pages = NULL;
/* No error == success. */
return 0;
}
/*L:020
* The initialization write supplies 3 pointer sized (32 or 64 bit) values (in
* addition to the LHREQ_INITIALIZE value). These are:
*
* base: The start of the Guest-physical memory inside the Launcher memory.
*
* pfnlimit: The highest (Guest-physical) page number the Guest should be
* allowed to access. The Guest memory lives inside the Launcher, so it sets
* this to ensure the Guest can only reach its own memory.
*
* start: The first instruction to execute ("eip" in x86-speak).
*/
static int initialize(struct file *file, const unsigned long __user *input)
{
/* "struct lguest" contains all we (the Host) know about a Guest. */
struct lguest *lg;
int err;
unsigned long args[3];
/*
* We grab the Big Lguest lock, which protects against multiple
* simultaneous initializations.
*/
mutex_lock(&lguest_lock);
/* You can't initialize twice! Close the device and start again... */
if (file->private_data) {
err = -EBUSY;
goto unlock;
}
if (copy_from_user(args, input, sizeof(args)) != 0) {
err = -EFAULT;
goto unlock;
}
lg = kzalloc(sizeof(*lg), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!lg) {
err = -ENOMEM;
goto unlock;
}
lg->eventfds = kmalloc(sizeof(*lg->eventfds), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!lg->eventfds) {
err = -ENOMEM;
goto free_lg;
}
lg->eventfds->num = 0;
/* Populate the easy fields of our "struct lguest" */
lg->mem_base = (void __user *)args[0];
lg->pfn_limit = args[1];
/* This is the first cpu (cpu 0) and it will start booting at args[2] */
err = lg_cpu_start(&lg->cpus[0], 0, args[2]);
if (err)
goto free_eventfds;
/*
* Initialize the Guest's shadow page tables, using the toplevel
* address the Launcher gave us. This allocates memory, so can fail.
*/
err = init_guest_pagetable(lg);
if (err)
goto free_regs;
/* We keep our "struct lguest" in the file's private_data. */
file->private_data = lg;
mutex_unlock(&lguest_lock);
/* And because this is a write() call, we return the length used. */
return sizeof(args);
free_regs:
/* FIXME: This should be in free_vcpu */
free_page(lg->cpus[0].regs_page);
free_eventfds:
kfree(lg->eventfds);
free_lg:
kfree(lg);
unlock:
mutex_unlock(&lguest_lock);
return err;
}
/*L:010
* The first operation the Launcher does must be a write. All writes
* start with an unsigned long number: for the first write this must be
* LHREQ_INITIALIZE to set up the Guest. After that the Launcher can use
* writes of other values to send interrupts or set up receipt of notifications.
*
* Note that we overload the "offset" in the /dev/lguest file to indicate what
* CPU number we're dealing with. Currently this is always 0 since we only
* support uniprocessor Guests, but you can see the beginnings of SMP support
* here.
*/
static ssize_t write(struct file *file, const char __user *in,
size_t size, loff_t *off)
{
/*
* Once the Guest is initialized, we hold the "struct lguest" in the
* file private data.
*/
struct lguest *lg = file->private_data;
const unsigned long __user *input = (const unsigned long __user *)in;
unsigned long req;
struct lg_cpu *uninitialized_var(cpu);
unsigned int cpu_id = *off;
/* The first value tells us what this request is. */
if (get_user(req, input) != 0)
return -EFAULT;
input++;
/* If you haven't initialized, you must do that first. */
if (req != LHREQ_INITIALIZE) {
if (!lg || (cpu_id >= lg->nr_cpus))
return -EINVAL;
cpu = &lg->cpus[cpu_id];
/* Once the Guest is dead, you can only read() why it died. */
if (lg->dead)
return -ENOENT;
}
switch (req) {
case LHREQ_INITIALIZE:
return initialize(file, input);
case LHREQ_IRQ:
return user_send_irq(cpu, input);
case LHREQ_EVENTFD:
return attach_eventfd(lg, input);
default:
return -EINVAL;
}
}
/*L:060
* The final piece of interface code is the close() routine. It reverses
* everything done in initialize(). This is usually called because the
* Launcher exited.
*
* Note that the close routine returns 0 or a negative error number: it can't
* really fail, but it can whine. I blame Sun for this wart, and K&R C for
* letting them do it.
:*/
static int close(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
struct lguest *lg = file->private_data;
unsigned int i;
/* If we never successfully initialized, there's nothing to clean up */
if (!lg)
return 0;
/*
* We need the big lock, to protect from inter-guest I/O and other
* Launchers initializing guests.
*/
mutex_lock(&lguest_lock);
/* Free up the shadow page tables for the Guest. */
free_guest_pagetable(lg);
for (i = 0; i < lg->nr_cpus; i++) {
/* Cancels the hrtimer set via LHCALL_SET_CLOCKEVENT. */
hrtimer_cancel(&lg->cpus[i].hrt);
/* We can free up the register page we allocated. */
free_page(lg->cpus[i].regs_page);
/*
* Now all the memory cleanups are done, it's safe to release
* the Launcher's memory management structure.
*/
mmput(lg->cpus[i].mm);
}
/* Release any eventfds they registered. */
for (i = 0; i < lg->eventfds->num; i++)
eventfd_ctx_put(lg->eventfds->map[i].event);
kfree(lg->eventfds);
/*
* If lg->dead doesn't contain an error code it will be NULL or a
* kmalloc()ed string, either of which is ok to hand to kfree().
*/
if (!IS_ERR(lg->dead))
kfree(lg->dead);
/* Free the memory allocated to the lguest_struct */
kfree(lg);
/* Release lock and exit. */
mutex_unlock(&lguest_lock);
return 0;
}
/*L:000
* Welcome to our journey through the Launcher!
*
* The Launcher is the Host userspace program which sets up, runs and services
* the Guest. In fact, many comments in the Drivers which refer to "the Host"
* doing things are inaccurate: the Launcher does all the device handling for
* the Guest, but the Guest can't know that.
*
* Just to confuse you: to the Host kernel, the Launcher *is* the Guest and we
* shall see more of that later.
*
* We begin our understanding with the Host kernel interface which the Launcher
* uses: reading and writing a character device called /dev/lguest. All the
* work happens in the read(), write() and close() routines:
*/
static struct file_operations lguest_fops = {
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
.release = close,
.write = write,
.read = read,
};
/*
* This is a textbook example of a "misc" character device. Populate a "struct
* miscdevice" and register it with misc_register().
*/
static struct miscdevice lguest_dev = {
.minor = MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR,
.name = "lguest",
.fops = &lguest_fops,
};
int __init lguest_device_init(void)
{
return misc_register(&lguest_dev);
}
void __exit lguest_device_remove(void)
{
misc_deregister(&lguest_dev);
}
