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diff --git a/doc/README.virtio b/doc/README.virtio new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..d3652f2e2f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/README.virtio @@ -0,0 +1,253 @@ +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ +# +# Copyright (C) 2018, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> + +VirtIO Support +============== + +This document describes the information about U-Boot support for VirtIO [1] +devices, including supported boards, build instructions, driver details etc. + +What's VirtIO? +-------------- +VirtIO is a virtualization standard for network and disk device drivers where +just the guest's device driver "knows" it is running in a virtual environment, +and cooperates with the hypervisor. This enables guests to get high performance +network and disk operations, and gives most of the performance benefits of +paravirtualization. In the U-Boot case, the guest is U-Boot itself, while the +virtual environment are normally QEMU [2] targets like ARM, RISC-V and x86. + +Status +------ +VirtIO can use various different buses, aka transports as described in the +spec. While VirtIO devices are commonly implemented as PCI devices on x86, +embedded devices models like ARM/RISC-V, which does not normally come with +PCI support might use simple memory mapped device (MMIO) instead of the PCI +device. The memory mapped virtio device behaviour is based on the PCI device +specification. Therefore most operations including device initialization, +queues configuration and buffer transfers are nearly identical. Both MMIO +and PCI transport options are supported in U-Boot. + +The VirtIO spec defines a lots of VirtIO device types, however at present only +network and block device, the most two commonly used devices, are supported. + +The following QEMU targets are supported. + + - qemu_arm_defconfig + - qemu_arm64_defconfig + - qemu-riscv32_defconfig + - qemu-riscv64_defconfig + - qemu-x86_defconfig + - qemu-x86_64_defconfig + +Note ARM and RISC-V targets are configured with VirtIO MMIO transport driver, +and on x86 it's the PCI transport driver. + +Build Instructions +------------------ +Building U-Boot for pre-configured QEMU targets is no different from others. +For example, we can do the following with the CROSS_COMPILE environment +variable being properly set to a working toolchain for ARM: + + $ make qemu_arm_defconfig + $ make + +You can even create a QEMU ARM target with VirtIO devices showing up on both +MMIO and PCI buses. In this case, you can enable the PCI transport driver +from 'make menuconfig': + +Device Drivers ---> + ... + VirtIO Drivers ---> + ... + [*] PCI driver for virtio devices + +Other drivers are at the same location and can be tuned to suit the needs. + +Requirements +------------ +It is required that QEMU v2.5.0+ should be used to test U-Boot VirtIO support +on QEMU ARM and x86, and v2.12.0+ on QEMU RISC-V. + +Testing +------- +The following QEMU command line is used to get U-Boot up and running with +VirtIO net and block devices on ARM. + + $ qemu-system-arm -nographic -machine virt -bios u-boot.bin \ + -netdev tap,ifname=tap0,id=net0 \ + -device virtio-net-device,netdev=net0 \ + -drive if=none,file=test.img,format=raw,id=hd0 \ + -device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 + +On x86, command is slightly different to create PCI VirtIO devices. + + $ qemu-system-i386 -nographic -bios u-boot.rom \ + -netdev tap,ifname=tap0,id=net0 \ + -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0 \ + -drive if=none,file=test.img,format=raw,id=hd0 \ + -device virtio-blk-pci,drive=hd0 + +Additional net and block devices can be created by appending more '-device' +parameters. It is also possible to specify both MMIO and PCI VirtIO devices. +For example, the following commnad creates 3 VirtIO devices, with 1 on MMIO +and 2 on PCI bus. + + $ qemu-system-arm -nographic -machine virt -bios u-boot.bin \ + -netdev tap,ifname=tap0,id=net0 \ + -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0 \ + -drive if=none,file=test0.img,format=raw,id=hd0 \ + -device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 \ + -drive if=none,file=test1.img,format=raw,id=hd1 \ + -device virtio-blk-pci,drive=hd1 + +By default QEMU creates VirtIO legacy devices by default. To create non-legacy +(aka modern) devices, pass additional device property/value pairs like below: + + $ qemu-system-i386 -nographic -bios u-boot.rom \ + -netdev tap,ifname=tap0,id=net0 \ + -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0,disable-legacy=true,disable-modern=false \ + -drive if=none,file=test.img,format=raw,id=hd0 \ + -device virtio-blk-pci,drive=hd0,disable-legacy=true,disable-modern=false + +A 'virtio' command is provided in U-Boot shell. + + => virtio + virtio - virtio block devices sub-system + + Usage: + virtio scan - initialize virtio bus + virtio info - show all available virtio block devices + virtio device [dev] - show or set current virtio block device + virtio part [dev] - print partition table of one or all virtio block devices + virtio read addr blk# cnt - read `cnt' blocks starting at block + `blk#' to memory address `addr' + virtio write addr blk# cnt - write `cnt' blocks starting at block + `blk#' from memory address `addr' + +To probe all the VirtIO devices, type: + + => virtio scan + +Then we can show the connected block device details by: + + => virtio info + Device 0: QEMU VirtIO Block Device + Type: Hard Disk + Capacity: 4096.0 MB = 4.0 GB (8388608 x 512) + +And list the directories and files on the disk by: + + => ls virtio 0 / + <DIR> 4096 . + <DIR> 4096 .. + <DIR> 16384 lost+found + <DIR> 4096 dev + <DIR> 4096 proc + <DIR> 4096 sys + <DIR> 4096 var + <DIR> 4096 etc + <DIR> 4096 usr + <SYM> 7 bin + <SYM> 8 sbin + <SYM> 7 lib + <SYM> 9 lib64 + <DIR> 4096 run + <DIR> 4096 boot + <DIR> 4096 home + <DIR> 4096 media + <DIR> 4096 mnt + <DIR> 4096 opt + <DIR> 4096 root + <DIR> 4096 srv + <DIR> 4096 tmp + 0 .autorelabel + +Driver Internals +---------------- +There are 3 level of drivers in the VirtIO driver family. + + +---------------------------------------+ + | virtio device drivers | + | +-------------+ +------------+ | + | | virtio-net | | virtio-blk | | + | +-------------+ +------------+ | + +---------------------------------------+ + +---------------------------------------+ + | virtio transport drivers | + | +-------------+ +------------+ | + | | virtio-mmio | | virtio-pci | | + | +-------------+ +------------+ | + +---------------------------------------+ + +----------------------+ + | virtio uclass driver | + +----------------------+ + +The root one is the virtio uclass driver (virtio-uclass.c), which does lots of +common stuff for the transport drivers (virtio_mmio.c, virtio_pci.c). The real +virtio device is discovered in the transport driver's probe() method, and its +device ID is saved in the virtio uclass's private data of the transport device. +Then in the virtio uclass's post_probe() method, the real virtio device driver +(virtio_net.c, virtio_blk.c) is bound if there is a match on the device ID. + +The child_post_bind(), child_pre_probe() and child_post_probe() methods of the +virtio uclass driver help bring the virtio device driver online. They do things +like acknowledging device, feature negotiation, etc, which are really common +for all virtio devices. + +The transport drivers provide a set of ops (struct dm_virtio_ops) for the real +virtio device driver to call. These ops APIs's parameter is designed to remind +the caller to pass the correct 'struct udevice' id of the virtio device, eg: + +int virtio_get_status(struct udevice *vdev, u8 *status) + +So the parameter 'vdev' indicates the device should be the real virtio device. +But we also have an API like: + +struct virtqueue *vring_create_virtqueue(unsigned int index, unsigned int num, + unsigned int vring_align, + struct udevice *udev) + +Here the parameter 'udev' indicates the device should be the transport device. +Similar naming is applied in other functions that are even not APIs, eg: + +static int virtio_uclass_post_probe(struct udevice *udev) +static int virtio_uclass_child_pre_probe(struct udevice *vdev) + +So it's easy to tell which device these functions are operating on. + +Development Flow +---------------- +At present only VirtIO network card (device ID 1) and block device (device +ID 2) are supported. If you want to develop new driver for new devices, +please follow the guideline below. + +1. add new device ID in virtio.h +#define VIRTIO_ID_XXX X + +2. update VIRTIO_ID_MAX_NUM to be the largest device ID plus 1 + +3. add new driver name string in virtio.h +#define VIRTIO_XXX_DRV_NAME "virtio-xxx" + +4. create a new driver with name set to the name string above +U_BOOT_DRIVER(virtio_xxx) = { + .name = VIRTIO_XXX_DRV_NAME, + ... + .remove = virtio_reset, + .flags = DM_FLAG_ACTIVE_DMA, +} + +Note the driver needs to provide the remove method and normally this can be +hooked to virtio_reset(). The driver flags should contain DM_FLAG_ACTIVE_DMA +for the remove method to be called before jumping to OS. + +5. provide bind() method in the driver, where virtio_driver_features_init() + should be called for driver to negotiate feature support with the device. + +6. do funny stuff with the driver + +References +---------- +[1] http://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.0/virtio-v1.0.pdf +[2] https://www.qemu.org |