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On 9/22/2020 19:42, shuo.a....@intel.com wrote:
> From: Shuo Liu <shuo.a....@intel.com>
> 
> ACRN is a Type 1 reference hypervisor stack, running directly on the 
> bare-metal
> hardware, and is suitable for a variety of IoT and embedded device solutions.
> 
> ACRN implements a hybrid VMM architecture, using a privileged Service VM. The
> Service VM manages the system resources (CPU, memory, etc.) and I/O devices of
> User VMs. Multiple User VMs are supported, with each of them running Linux,
> Android OS or Windows. Both Service VM and User VMs are guest VM.
> 
> Below figure shows the architecture.
> 
>                 Service VM                    User VM
>       +----------------------------+  |  +------------------+
>       |        +--------------+    |  |  |                  |
>       |        |ACRN userspace|    |  |  |                  |
>       |        +--------------+    |  |  |                  |
>       |-----------------ioctl------|  |  |                  |   ...
>       |kernel space   +----------+ |  |  |                  |
>       |               |   HSM    | |  |  | Drivers          |
>       |               +----------+ |  |  |                  |
>       +--------------------|-------+  |  +------------------+
>   +---------------------hypercall----------------------------------------+
>   |                       ACRN Hypervisor                                |
>   +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
>   |                          Hardware                                    |
>   +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
> 
> There is only one Service VM which could run Linux as OS.
> 
> In a typical case, the Service VM will be auto started when ACRN Hypervisor is
> booted. Then the ACRN userspace (an application running in Service VM) could 
> be
> used to start/stop User VMs by communicating with ACRN Hypervisor Service
> Module (HSM).
> 
> ACRN Hypervisor Service Module (HSM) is a middle layer that allows the ACRN
> userspace and Service VM OS kernel to communicate with ACRN Hypervisor
> and manage different User VMs. This middle layer provides the following
> functionalities,
>   - Issues hypercalls to the hypervisor to manage User VMs:
>       * VM/vCPU management
>       * Memory management
>       * Device passthrough
>       * Interrupts injection
>   - I/O requests handling from User VMs.
>   - Exports ioctl through HSM char device.
>   - Exports function calls for other kernel modules
> 
> ACRN is focused on embedded system. So it doesn't support some features.
> E.g.,
>   - ACRN doesn't support VM migration.
>   - ACRN doesn't support vCPU migration.
> 
> This patch set adds the HSM to the Linux kernel.
> 
> The basic ARCN support was merged to upstream already.
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1559108037-18813-3-git-send-email-yakui.z...@intel.com/
> 
> ChangeLog:
> v4:
>   - Used acrn_dev.this_device directly for dev_*() (Reinette)
>   - Removed the odd usage of {get|put}_device() on &acrn_dev->this_device 
> (Greg)
>   - Removed unused log code. (Greg)
>   - Corrected the return error values. (Greg)
>   - Mentioned that HSM relies hypervisor for sanity check in acrn_dev_ioctl() 
> comments (Greg)
> 
> v3:
>   - Used {get|put}_device() helpers on &acrn_dev->this_device
>   - Moved unused code from front patches to later ones.
>   - Removed self-defined pr_fmt() and dev_fmt()
>   - Provided comments for acrn_vm_list_lock.
> 
> v2:
>   - Removed API version related code. (Dave)
>   - Replaced pr_*() by dev_*(). (Greg)
>   - Used -ENOTTY as the error code of unsupported ioctl. (Greg)
> 
> Shuo Liu (16):
>   docs: acrn: Introduce ACRN
>   x86/acrn: Introduce acrn_{setup, remove}_intr_handler()
>   x86/acrn: Introduce hypercall interfaces
>   virt: acrn: Introduce ACRN HSM basic driver
>   virt: acrn: Introduce VM management interfaces
>   virt: acrn: Introduce an ioctl to set vCPU registers state
>   virt: acrn: Introduce EPT mapping management
>   virt: acrn: Introduce I/O request management
>   virt: acrn: Introduce PCI configuration space PIO accesses combiner
>   virt: acrn: Introduce interfaces for PCI device passthrough
>   virt: acrn: Introduce interrupt injection interfaces
>   virt: acrn: Introduce interfaces to query C-states and P-states
>     allowed by hypervisor
>   virt: acrn: Introduce I/O ranges operation interfaces
>   virt: acrn: Introduce ioeventfd
>   virt: acrn: Introduce irqfd
>   virt: acrn: Introduce an interface for Service VM to control vCPU
> 
> Yin Fengwei (1):
>   x86/acrn: Introduce an API to check if a VM is privileged
> 
>  .../userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst      |   1 +
>  Documentation/virt/acrn/index.rst             |  11 +
>  Documentation/virt/acrn/introduction.rst      |  40 ++
>  Documentation/virt/acrn/io-request.rst        |  97 +++
>  Documentation/virt/index.rst                  |   1 +
>  MAINTAINERS                                   |   9 +
>  arch/x86/include/asm/acrn.h                   |  74 ++
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/acrn.c                    |  35 +-
>  drivers/virt/Kconfig                          |   2 +
>  drivers/virt/Makefile                         |   1 +
>  drivers/virt/acrn/Kconfig                     |  15 +
>  drivers/virt/acrn/Makefile                    |   3 +
>  drivers/virt/acrn/acrn_drv.h                  | 229 +++++++
>  drivers/virt/acrn/hsm.c                       | 437 ++++++++++++
>  drivers/virt/acrn/hypercall.h                 | 254 +++++++
>  drivers/virt/acrn/ioeventfd.c                 | 273 ++++++++
>  drivers/virt/acrn/ioreq.c                     | 645 ++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/virt/acrn/irqfd.c                     | 235 +++++++
>  drivers/virt/acrn/mm.c                        | 305 +++++++++
>  drivers/virt/acrn/vm.c                        | 126 ++++
>  include/uapi/linux/acrn.h                     | 486 +++++++++++++
>  21 files changed, 3278 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/virt/acrn/index.rst
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/virt/acrn/introduction.rst
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/virt/acrn/io-request.rst
>  create mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/acrn.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/virt/acrn/Kconfig
>  create mode 100644 drivers/virt/acrn/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 drivers/virt/acrn/acrn_drv.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/virt/acrn/hsm.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/virt/acrn/hypercall.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/virt/acrn/ioeventfd.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/virt/acrn/ioreq.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/virt/acrn/irqfd.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/virt/acrn/mm.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/virt/acrn/vm.c
>  create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/acrn.h
> 
> 
> base-commit: 18445bf405cb331117bc98427b1ba6f12418ad17
> 

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