linux/samples/vfio-mdev
Alex Williamson 2b88119e35 vfio/mtty: Enable migration support
The mtty driver exposes a PCI serial device to userspace and therefore
makes an easy target for a sample device supporting migration.  The device
does not make use of DMA, therefore we can easily claim support for the
migration P2P states, as well as dirty logging.  This implementation also
makes use of PRE_COPY support in order to provide migration stream
compatibility testing, which should generally be considered good practice.

Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231016224736.2575718-3-alex.williamson@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2023-10-24 15:03:10 -06:00
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Makefile treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
mbochs.c vfio: use __aligned_u64 in struct vfio_device_gfx_plane_info 2023-09-28 12:12:08 -06:00
mdpy-defs.h PCI: Move PCI_VENDOR_ID_REDHAT definition to pci_ids.h 2020-07-09 17:00:47 -05:00
mdpy-fb.c vfio-dev/mdpy-fb: Use fbdev I/O helpers 2023-08-04 15:54:39 +02:00
mdpy.c vfio: use __aligned_u64 in struct vfio_device_gfx_plane_info 2023-09-28 12:12:08 -06:00
mtty.c vfio/mtty: Enable migration support 2023-10-24 15:03:10 -06:00
README.rst vfio-mdev: move the mtty usage documentation 2023-01-23 11:26:29 -07:00

Using the mtty vfio-mdev sample code
====================================

mtty is a sample vfio-mdev driver that demonstrates how to use the mediated
device framework.

The sample driver creates an mdev device that simulates a serial port over a PCI
card.

1. Build and load the mtty.ko module.

   This step creates a dummy device, /sys/devices/virtual/mtty/mtty/

   Files in this device directory in sysfs are similar to the following::

     # tree /sys/devices/virtual/mtty/mtty/
        /sys/devices/virtual/mtty/mtty/
        |-- mdev_supported_types
        |   |-- mtty-1
        |   |   |-- available_instances
        |   |   |-- create
        |   |   |-- device_api
        |   |   |-- devices
        |   |   `-- name
        |   `-- mtty-2
        |       |-- available_instances
        |       |-- create
        |       |-- device_api
        |       |-- devices
        |       `-- name
        |-- mtty_dev
        |   `-- sample_mtty_dev
        |-- power
        |   |-- autosuspend_delay_ms
        |   |-- control
        |   |-- runtime_active_time
        |   |-- runtime_status
        |   `-- runtime_suspended_time
        |-- subsystem -> ../../../../class/mtty
        `-- uevent

2. Create a mediated device by using the dummy device that you created in the
   previous step::

     # echo "83b8f4f2-509f-382f-3c1e-e6bfe0fa1001" >	\
              /sys/devices/virtual/mtty/mtty/mdev_supported_types/mtty-2/create

3. Add parameters to qemu-kvm::

     -device vfio-pci,\
      sysfsdev=/sys/bus/mdev/devices/83b8f4f2-509f-382f-3c1e-e6bfe0fa1001

4. Boot the VM.

   In the Linux guest VM, with no hardware on the host, the device appears
   as  follows::

     # lspci -s 00:05.0 -xxvv
     00:05.0 Serial controller: Device 4348:3253 (rev 10) (prog-if 02 [16550])
             Subsystem: Device 4348:3253
             Physical Slot: 5
             Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
     Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
             Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
     <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
             Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
             Region 0: I/O ports at c150 [size=8]
             Region 1: I/O ports at c158 [size=8]
             Kernel driver in use: serial
     00: 48 43 53 32 01 00 00 02 10 02 00 07 00 00 00 00
     10: 51 c1 00 00 59 c1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
     20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 48 43 53 32
     30: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 01 00 00

     In the Linux guest VM, dmesg output for the device is as follows:

     serial 0000:00:05.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKA] -> GSI 10 (level, high) -> IRQ 10
     0000:00:05.0: ttyS1 at I/O 0xc150 (irq = 10) is a 16550A
     0000:00:05.0: ttyS2 at I/O 0xc158 (irq = 10) is a 16550A


5. In the Linux guest VM, check the serial ports::

     # setserial -g /dev/ttyS*
     /dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
     /dev/ttyS1, UART: 16550A, Port: 0xc150, IRQ: 10
     /dev/ttyS2, UART: 16550A, Port: 0xc158, IRQ: 10

6. Using minicom or any terminal emulation program, open port /dev/ttyS1 or
   /dev/ttyS2 with hardware flow control disabled.

7. Type data on the minicom terminal or send data to the terminal emulation
   program and read the data.

   Data is loop backed from hosts mtty driver.

8. Destroy the mediated device that you created::

     # echo 1 > /sys/bus/mdev/devices/83b8f4f2-509f-382f-3c1e-e6bfe0fa1001/remove