RE: [RFC PATCH 0/2] x86: allow to notify host about guest entering s2idle
From: Limonciello, Mario
Date: Thu Jul 07 2022 - 11:27:42 EST
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> Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/2] x86: allow to notify host about guest entering s2idle
>
> According to the mailing list discussion [1] about the preferred approach
> for notifying hypervisor/VMM about guest entering s2idle state this RFC was
> implemented.
>
> Instead of original hypercall based approach, which involves KVM change [2]
> and makes it hypervisor specific, implement different mechanism, which
> takes advantage of MMIO/PIO trapping and makes it hypervisor independent.
>
> Patch #1 extends S2Idle ops by new notify handler which will be invoked as
> a very last command before system actually enters S2Idle states. It also
> allows to register and use driver specific notification hook which is used
> in patch #2.
>
> Patch #2 introduces new driver for virtual PMC, which registers
> acpi_s2idle_dev_ops's notify handler. Its implementation is based on an
> ACPI _DSM evaluation, which in turn can perform MMIO access and allow to
> trap and therefore notify the VMM about guest entering S2Idle state.
>
> Please see individual patches and commit logs for more verbose description.
>
> This patchset is marked as RFC since patch #2 implements driver for non
> existing device "HYPE0001", which ACPI ID was not registered yet.
> Furthermore the required registration process [3] will not be started
> before getting positive feedback about this patchset.
>
> [1]
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> [2]
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> ork.kernel.org%2Fproject%2Flinux-pm%2Fpatch%2F20220609110337.1238762-
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> Grzegorz Jaszczyk (2):
> suspend: extend S2Idle ops by new notify handler
> platform/x86: Add virtual PMC driver used for S2Idle
>
> drivers/acpi/x86/s2idle.c | 11 +++++
> drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig | 7 ++++
> drivers/platform/x86/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/platform/x86/virt_pmc.c | 73 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/acpi.h | 1 +
> include/linux/suspend.h | 1 +
> kernel/power/suspend.c | 4 ++
> 7 files changed, 98 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/virt_pmc.c
>
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> 2.37.0.rc0.161.g10f37bed90-goog
Thanks, you matched the implementation I was expecting.
This looks fine by me.