Re: [PATCH v11 00/26] Drivers for gunyah hypervisor
From: Alex Elder <hidden>
Date: 2023-03-31 14:24:46
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On 3/3/23 7:06 PM, Elliot Berman wrote:
Gunyah is a Type-1 hypervisor independent of any high-level OS kernel, and runs in a higher CPU privilege level. It does not depend on any lower-privileged OS kernel/code for its core functionality. This increases its security and can support a much smaller trusted computing base than a Type-2 hypervisor. Gunyah is an open source hypervisor. The source repo is available at https://github.com/quic/gunyah-hypervisor.
I've done a pretty detailed review again, and got further along than I did last time. Things are definitely looking better, but I have found some bugs that need to be addressed. I also make a lot of comments about grouping certain sets of definitions into enumerated types. Also I tend to notice when things aren't done consistently, and I mention that a lot. There are silly suggestions all over about alignment of things--these are mainly to make the code look prettier, though that's a matter of opinion. I still prefer having lines generally closer to 80 columns wide, but I've already mentioned that... I really focused on the code, and not the documentation. In fact I didn't even pay much attention to your patch headers either. I did not review the SCM calls yet. So in summary I have not reviewed patches 1, 2, 16, 17, and 26. I try to look at everything in my next review, which I hope will be final (or very close). -Alex
The diagram below shows the architecture.
::
VM A VM B
+-----+ +-----+ | +-----+ +-----+ +-----+
| | | | | | | | | | |
EL0 | APP | | APP | | | APP | | APP | | APP |
| | | | | | | | | | |
+-----+ +-----+ | +-----+ +-----+ +-----+
---------------------|-------------------------
+--------------+ | +----------------------+
| | | | |
EL1 | Linux Kernel | | |Linux kernel/Other OS | ...
| | | | |
+--------------+ | +----------------------+
--------hvc/smc------|------hvc/smc------------
+----------------------------------------+
| |
EL2 | Gunyah Hypervisor |
| |
+----------------------------------------+
Gunyah provides these following features.. . . _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel