Add support for virtio-pci transport #5240
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Instead of returning an `EventFd` type, which will actually force us to clone the file descriptor in the Firecracker side. Signed-off-by: Babis Chalios <bchalios@amazon.es>
This is code we are not going to use in Firecracker. Remove it, so we can keep the crates we vend as minimal as possible, including only things we are actually using. Signed-off-by: Babis Chalios <bchalios@amazon.es>
We'd like to be able to store Vm within an atomic reference so we can pass it around and share it with other components. The main issue with doing this change is that we need Vm to be `mut` during initialization and the builder.rs code was creating Vmm with Vm embedded in it. To solve this, we break down the initialization of the Vmm object. We first create its individual parts (Vm, Kvm and DeviceManager), perform any necessary initialization logic on Vm and once this done add it within an Arc. Signed-off-by: Babis Chalios <bchalios@amazon.es>
Add logic to track the device interrupts used by the microVM. This is not strictly needed right now, but we will need it when adding support for MSI-X interrupts. MSI-X interrupts are configured at runtime and we need to interact with KVM to set the interruput routes. To do it, we need to keep track all of the interrupts the VM is using. Signed-off-by: Babis Chalios <bchalios@amazon.es>
Enable Vm to vend and manage MSI/MSI-X interrupts. This adds the logic to create a set of MSI vectors and then handle their lifetime. Signed-off-by: Babis Chalios <bchalios@amazon.es>
Vm object is now maintaining information about the interrupts (both traditional IRQs and MSI-X vectors) that are being used by microVM devices. Derive Serialize/Deserialize add logic for recreating objects for relevant types. Signed-off-by: Babis Chalios <bchalios@amazon.es>
Commit d8c2714 (refactor: use VirtioInterrupt in VirtIO devices) which refactored devices to use new VirtioInterrupt type introduced a bug with the index used to trigger a queue interrupt. Instead of using the actual queue index, we were using the index of the used descriptor. Signed-off-by: Babis Chalios <bchalios@amazon.es>
Apparently, PCI needs Queue::size to be initialized to the maximum possible size supported by the device, otherwise initialization fails. Signed-off-by: Babis Chalios <bchalios@amazon.es>
Remove the flags in FADT that were declaring we do not support MSI and PCI ASPM. Signed-off-by: Babis Chalios <bchalios@amazon.es>
Merge the device-related errors that DeviceManager might return. This way, we can avoid adding yet another error type for PCI devices and reduce some the variants of StartMicrovmError. Suggested-by: Egor Lazarchuk <yegorlz@amazon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Babis Chalios <bchalios@amazon.es>
Add a VirtIO PCI transport implementation. When a Firecracker microVM is launched with --enable-pci, we will create all VirtIO devices using the PCI transport layer. Snapshotting of VirtIO PCI devices is not supported and we will add this functionality in later commit. Add a couple of tests that ensure that PCI configuration space is what expected. We read common fields and make sure the BAR we allocate for the VirtIO device is what expected. Signed-off-by: Babis Chalios <bchalios@amazon.es>
We are now calling KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION for checking the KVM_CAP_MSI_DEVID capability. We are also calling KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING to set the interrupts routes and KVM_IRQFD to set/unset interrupt lines. Signed-off-by: Babis Chalios <bchalios@amazon.es>
Add some unit tests to PciSegment. We now test that the next_device_bdf() method and the initialization logic work as expected. We also check that the configuration space of the PCI segment is correctly registered with the MMIO and, on x86, PIO bus. Signed-off-by: Babis Chalios <bchalios@amazon.es>
vm-allocator now allows us to (De)serialize IdAllocator and AddressAllocator types. Add ResourceAllocator in DeviceManager snapshot state and restore it when loading a snapshot. Like this we can avoid doing the ExactMatch allocations during snapshot resumes for reserving the exact same MMIO ranges. Moreover, change DeviceManager and PciDevices to provide save/restore functionality via the Persist trait. Like that we can avoid first creating the objects and then restoring their state, overwriting their fields. Signed-off-by: Babis Chalios <bchalios@amazon.es>
VirtIO MMIO restore logic activates the device the moment we restore the device state, if the device was activated when snapshotted. Move the activation responsibility to the logic the restores the MMIO transport. The reason for this change is that that's how it will be done for the PCI transport. Unifying this will allow us reusing the same types for restoring the non-transport state of devices. Note that we needed to change the way Net devices are saved/restored. RxBuffer type of Net devices holds RX descriptors that we have parsed from the Queue ahead of time. The way we restored this info was manipulating the queue to re-parse the RX descriptors during the restore phase. However, we need the device to be activated to do so, which now isn't. So, instead of storing this info inside the snapshot make sure we have flushed everything before taking the snapshot. Also, simplify a bit the types that we use for serializing/deserializing the state of a device. Signed-off-by: Babis Chalios <bchalios@amazon.es>
Support serializing the device-specific and transport state of a VirtIO device that uses the PCI transport. Signed-off-by: Babis Chalios <bchalios@amazon.es>
ResourceAllocator object was part of DeviceManager since it is (mainly) devices that use it. ResourceAllocator is as well the object that implements (in a dummy way, for the moment) the DeviceRelocation trait which PciDevices use to move the address space of a PciDevice when triggered from the guest. Problem with DeviceRelocation is that it also needs the Vm file descriptor to perform the relocation, because we need to move register the new IO event fd for VirtIO devices. To make things simpler, move ResourceAllocator inside the Vm object. In subsequent commit we will remove the DeviceRelocation from ResourceAllocator and move it to Vm instead. This has the nice secondary effect that we were able to simplify the signature of many device-related methods that received Vm and ResourceAllocator arguments. Signed-off-by: Babis Chalios <bchalios@amazon.es>
We had previously added MMIO and Port IO buses inside ResourceAllocator so that we could implement DeviceRelocation for the type. Now, we will delegate device relocation responsibilities to ArchVm instead. That is because device relocation requires access to the Vm file descriptor as well. As a result, we can move buses to the Vm object itself. Add MMIO bus to VmCommon as both architectures use it. Add PortIO bus for x86 architecture only. Not that we don't still support DeviceRelocation. VirtIO devices should not request us to relocate them. Also, for adding such support we would need to also support VirtIO reset. We will look into adding this functionaliyt later on. Signed-off-by: Babis Chalios <bchalios@amazon.es>
Add support for ITS device which provides support for MSI interrupts on ARM architecture. This is currently supported only on systems with GICv3 interrupt controller. In order to make saving/restore of ITS state work properly, we need to change the order in which we restore redistributor register GICR_CTLR. We need to make sure that this register is restored last. Otherwise, restoring GICR_PROPBASER doesn't have any effect and ITS depends on it in order to save/restore ITS tables to/from guest memory. Signed-off-by: Babis Chalios <bchalios@amazon.es>
Refactor the test code that inserts VirtIO devices in a Vmm object and then add a test which creates a Vmm with PCI devices and then serializes and deserializes the device manager and ensures that everything is as restored as expected. Signed-off-by: Babis Chalios <bchalios@amazon.es>
Use pci_enabled fixture for boot time, block, and network tests to create PCI microVM variants as well. Signed-off-by: Babis Chalios <bchalios@amazon.es>
We only pass pci=off if PCI is disabled in Firecracker. Adapt tests and comments to reflect that. Signed-off-by: Babis Chalios <bchalios@amazon.es>
So that we don't have to downcast VirtioDevice trait objects to the actual device type before calling the logic to process events for each device. Signed-off-by: Babis Chalios <bchalios@amazon.es>
Instead of storing internal allocators of ResourceAllocator within an Arc<Mutex<>> container, just store `ResourceAllocator` itself in an `Arc<Mutex<>>`. Apart from that, we get rid of the `ResourceAllocatorState` state object, and just clone `ResourceAllocator` itself when we want to save/restore. Also, make the creation of `ResourceAllocato` infallible, since we know that the ranges we are using are correct. Finally, fix saving/restoring the state of ResourceAllocator. We were actually not resetting it correctly upon snapshot restore. The reason why this was not a problem is that we don't actually need to perform any new allocations post restore at the moment. However, like this we are ready when we need to perform any hot-plugging operations. Also, add a unit-test to ensure that this logic works correctly. Signed-off-by: Babis Chalios <bchalios@amazon.es>
We were confusing queue indexex with event indexes, when passing the index of the queue that needed to be triggered after handling events. Fix the logic to pass the correct index. This refactors a bit the code to signal the queues in each event handler method. With MMIO we don't need to signal each queue independently (one signal will cause the guest to scan all queues). With PCI though, we are using MSI-X, so we need to signal each queue independently. Also, change vsock functional integration tests to also run for PCI-enabled microVMs. Signed-off-by: Babis Chalios <bchalios@amazon.es>
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This PR adds support for using a PCI transport for VirtIO devices. The PR adds PCI support for x86 and Aarch64 systems both for booted and snapshot-restored microVMs. The VirtIO-PCI transport is used whenever Firecracker is launched with PCI enabled. Otherwise, we fall back to the MMIO transport.
This PR also adds support for MSI-X interrupts for VirtIO devices. When using the PCI transport VirtIO devices always use MSI-X type of interrupts. MMIO devices still use the IRQ based ones.
Since we needed to change various things in order to support PCI along with MMIO transport the PR brings a few quality of life changes in the code base:
ResourceAllocator, so that we free old memory and allocate new one, the MMIO and Port IO buses, so that we register the device to its new allocated address range and the KVM Vm file descriptor so that we correctly set the new IO event fds. As a result, we move buses, and resource allocator inside theVmobject and make the latter responsible for the relocation when needed. This moves simplify the signatures of a lot of functions that were using a combination ofResourceAllocator,VmandBusobjects. In the future, we might want to even moveDeviceManagerinside theVmobject. This should simplify things even further.serdesupport in the new version ofvm-allocatorcrate, so that we don't have to perform allocations with fixed addresses upon snapshot restore.Reason
Support VirtIO devices with PCI transport
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