Re: [iGVT-g] [ANNOUNCE][RFC] KVMGT - the implementation of Intel GVT-g(full GPU virtualization) for KVM
by Jike Song
Hi all,
We are pleased to announce another update of Intel GVT-g for KVM.
Intel GVT-g is a full GPU virtualization solution with mediated pass-through, starting from 4th generation Intel Core(TM) processors with Intel Graphics processors. A virtual GPU instance is maintained for each VM, with part of performance critical resources directly assigned. The capability of running native graphics driver inside a VM, without hypervisor intervention in performance critical paths, achieves a good balance among performance, feature, and sharing capability. KVM is supported by Intel GVT-g(a.k.a. KVMGT).
Repositories
Kernel: https://github.com/01org/igvtg-kernel (2015q3-3.18.0 branch)
Qemu: https://github.com/01org/igvtg-qemu (kvmgt_public2015q3 branch)
This update consists of:
- KVMGT is now merged with XenGT in unified repositories(kernel and qemu), but currently
different branches for qemu. KVMGT and XenGT share same iGVT-g core logic.
- PPGTT supported, hence the Windows guest support
- KVMGT now supports both 4th generation (Haswell) and 5th generation (Broadwell) Intel Core(TM) processors
- 2D/3D/Media decoding have been validated on Ubuntu 14.04 and Windows7/Windows 8.1
Next update will be around early Jan, 2016.
Known issues:
- At least 2GB memory is suggested for VM to run most 3D workloads.
- 3Dmark06 running in Windows VM may have some stability issue.
- Using VLC to play .ogg file may cause mosaic or slow response.
Please subscribe the mailing list to report BUGs, discuss, and/or contribute:
https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/igvt-g
More information about Intel GVT-g background, architecture, etc can be found at(may not be up-to-date):
https://01.org/igvt-g
http://www.linux-kvm.org/images/f/f3/01x08b-KVMGT-a.pdf
https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc14/technical-sessions/presentation/tian
Note:
The KVMGT project should be considered a work in progress. As such it is not a complete product nor should it be considered one. Extra care should be taken when testing and configuring a system to use the KVMGT project.
--
Thanks,
Jike
On 12/04/2014 10:24 AM, Jike Song wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We are pleased to announce the first release of KVMGT project. KVMGT is the implementation of Intel GVT-g technology, a full GPU virtualization solution. Under Intel GVT-g, a virtual GPU instance is maintained for each VM, with part of performance critical resources directly assigned. The capability of running native graphics driver inside a VM, without hypervisor intervention in performance critical paths, achieves a good balance of performance, feature, and sharing capability.
>
>
> KVMGT is still in the early stage:
>
> - Basic functions of full GPU virtualization works, guest can see a full-featured vGPU.
> We ran several 3D workloads such as lightsmark, nexuiz, urbanterror and warsow.
>
> - Only Linux guest supported so far, and PPGTT must be disabled in guest through a
> kernel parameter(see README.kvmgt in QEMU).
>
> - This drop also includes some Xen specific changes, which will be cleaned up later.
>
> - Our end goal is to upstream both XenGT and KVMGT, which shares ~90% logic for vGPU
> device model (will be part of i915 driver), with only difference in hypervisor
> specific services
>
> - insufficient test coverage, so please bear with stability issues :)
>
>
>
> There are things need to be improved, esp. the KVM interfacing part:
>
> 1 a domid was added to each KVMGT guest
>
> An ID is needed for foreground OS switching, e.g.
>
> # echo <domid> > /sys/kernel/vgt/control/foreground_vm
>
> domid 0 is reserved for host OS.
>
>
> 2 SRCU workarounds.
>
> Some KVM functions, such as:
>
> kvm_io_bus_register_dev
> install_new_memslots
>
> must be called *without* &kvm->srcu read-locked. Otherwise it hangs.
>
> In KVMGT, we need to register an iodev only *after* BAR registers are
> written by guest. That means, we already have &kvm->srcu hold -
> trapping/emulating PIO(BAR registers) makes us in such a condition.
> That will make kvm_io_bus_register_dev hangs.
>
> Currently we have to disable rcu_assign_pointer() in such functions.
>
> These were dirty workarounds, your suggestions are high welcome!
>
>
> 3 syscalls were called to access "/dev/mem" from kernel
>
> An in-kernel memslot was added for aperture, but using syscalls like
> open and mmap to open and access the character device "/dev/mem",
> for pass-through.
>
>
>
>
> The source codes(kernel, qemu as well as seabios) are available at github:
>
> git://github.com/01org/KVMGT-kernel
> git://github.com/01org/KVMGT-qemu
> git://github.com/01org/KVMGT-seabios
>
> In the KVMGT-qemu repository, there is a "README.kvmgt" to be referred.
>
>
>
> More information about Intel GVT-g and KVMGT can be found at:
>
> https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc14/technical-sessions/presentation/tian
> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/KVMGT-a%20Ful...
>
>
> Appreciate your comments, BUG reports, and contributions!
>
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Jike
>
4 years, 4 months
Re: [iGVT-g] [Intel-gfx] [Announcement] 2015-Q3 release of XenGT - a Mediated Graphics Passthrough Solution from Intel
by Jike Song
Hi all,
We are pleased to announce another update of Intel GVT-g for Xen.
Intel GVT-g is a full GPU virtualization solution with mediated pass-through, starting from 4th generation Intel Core(TM) processors with Intel Graphics processors. A virtual GPU instance is maintained for each VM, with part of performance critical resources directly assigned. The capability of running native graphics driver inside a VM, without hypervisor intervention in performance critical paths, achieves a good balance among performance, feature, and sharing capability. Xen is currently supported on Intel Processor Graphics (a.k.a. XenGT); and the core logic can be easily ported to other hypervisors.
Repositories
Kernel: https://github.com/01org/igvtg-kernel (2015q3-3.18.0 branch)
Xen: https://github.com/01org/igvtg-xen (2015q3-4.5 branch)
Qemu: https://github.com/01org/igvtg-qemu (xengt_public2015q3 branch)
This update consists of:
- XenGT is now merged with KVMGT in unified repositories(kernel and qemu), but currently
different branches for qemu. XenGT and KVMGT share same iGVT-g core logic.
- fix sysfs/debugfs access seldom crash issue
- fix a BUG in XenGT I/O emulation logic
- improve 3d workload stability
Next update will be around early Jan, 2016.
Known issues:
- At least 2GB memory is suggested for VM to run most 3D workloads.
- Keymap might be incorrect in guest. Config file may need to explicitly specify "keymap='en-us'". Although it looks like the default value, earlier we saw the problem of wrong keymap code if it is not explicitly set.
- When using three monitors, doing hotplug between Guest pause/unpause may not be able to lightup all monitors automatically. Some specific monitor issues.
- Cannot move mouse pointer smoothly in guest by default launched by VNC mode. Configuration file need to explicitly specify "usb=1" to enable a USB bus, and "usbdevice='tablet'" to add pointer device using absolute coordinates.
- Resume dom0 from S3 may cause some error message.
- i915 unload/reload cannot works well with less than 3 vcpu when upowerd service was running
- Unigen Tropics running in multiple guests will cause dom0 and guests tdr.
Please subscribe the mailing list to report BUGs, discuss, and/or contribute:
https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/igvt-g
More information about Intel GVT-g background, architecture, etc can be found at(may not be up-to-date):
https://01.org/igvt-g
https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc14/technical-sessions/presentation/tian
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/XenGT-Xen%20S...
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/XenGT-Xen%20S...
https://01.org/xen/blogs/srclarkx/2013/graphics-virtualization-xengt
Note:
The XenGT project should be considered a work in progress. As such it is not a complete product nor should it be considered one. Extra care should be taken when testing and configuring a system to use the XenGT project.
--
Thanks,
Jike
On 07/07/2015 10:49 AM, Jike Song wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We're pleased to announce a public update to Intel Graphics Virtualization Technology(Intel GVT-g, formerly known as XenGT).
>
> Intel GVT-g is a full GPU virtualization solution with mediated pass-through, starting from 4th generation Intel Core(TM) processors with Intel Graphics processors. A virtual GPU instance is maintained for each VM, with part of performance critical resources directly assigned. The capability of running native graphics driver inside a VM, without hypervisor intervention in performance critical paths, achieves a good balance among performance, feature, and sharing capability. Xen is currently supported on Intel Processor Graphics (a.k.a. XenGT); and the core logic can be easily ported to other hypervisors, for example, the experimental code has been released to support GVT-g running on a KVM hypervisor (a.k.a KVMGT).
>
> Tip of repositories
> -------------------------
>
> Kernel: 5b73653d5ca, Branch: master-2015Q2-3.18.0
> Qemu: 2a75bbff62c1, Branch: master
> Xen: 38c36f0f511b1, Branch: master-2015Q2-4.5
>
> This update consists of:
> - Change time based scheduler timer to be configurable to enhance stability
> - Fix stability issues that VM/Dom0 got tdr when hang up at some specific instruction on BDW
> - Optimize the emulation of el_status register to enhance stability
> - 2D/3D performance in linux VMs has been improved about 50% on BDW
> - Fix abnormal idle power consumption issue due to wrong forcewake policy
> - Fix tdr issue when running 2D/3D/Media workloads in Windows VMs simultaneously
> - KVM support is still in a separate branch as prototype work. We plan to integrate KVM/Xen support together in the future releases
> - Next update will be around early Oct, 2015
>
> Notice that this release can support both Intel 4th generation Core CPU(code name: Haswell) and Intel 5th generation Core CPU (code name: Broadwell), while the limitation of the latter include:
> * 3D conformance may have some failure
> * Under high demand 3D workloads, stability issues are detected
> * Multi-monitor scenario is not fully tested, while single monitor of VGA/HDMI/DP/eDP should just work
> * Hotplug DP may cause black screen even on native environment
>
> Where to get
>
> kernel: https://github.com/01org/XenGT-Preview-kernel.git
> xen: https://github.com/01org/XenGT-Preview-xen.git
> qemu: https://github.com/01org/XenGT-Preview-qemu.git
>
>
> We have a mailing list for GVT-g development, bug report and technical discussion:
>
> https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/igvt-g
>
> More information about Intel GVT-g background, architecture, etc can be found at:
>
> https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc14/technical-sessions/presentation/tian
> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/XenGT-Xen%20S...
> https://01.org/xen/blogs/srclarkx/2013/graphics-virtualization-xengt
>
>
> Note: The XenGT project should be considered a work in progress. As such it is not a complete product nor should it be considered one. Extra care should be taken when testing and configuring a system to use the XenGT project.
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Jike
>
> On 04/10/2015 09:23 PM, Jike Song wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We're pleased to announce a public update to Intel Graphics Virtualization Technology (Intel GVT-g, formerly known as XenGT). Intel GVT-g is a complete vGPU solution with mediated pass-through, supported today on 4th generation Intel Core(TM) processors with Intel Graphics processors. A virtual GPU instance is maintained for each VM, with part of performance critical resources directly assigned. The capability of running native graphics driver inside a VM, without hypervisor intervention in performance critical paths, achieves a good balance among performance, feature, and sharing capability. Though we only support Xen on Intel Processor Graphics so far, the core logic can be easily ported to other hypervisors.
>>
>> Tip of repositories
>> -------------------------
>>
>> Kernel: a011c9f953e, Branch: master-2015Q1-3.18.0
>> Qemu: 2a75bbff62c1, Branch: master
>> Xen: 38c36f0f511b1, Branch: master-2015Q1-4.5
>>
>> Summary this update
>> -------------------------
>> - Preliminary Broadwell support.
>> - kernel update from drm-intel 3.17.0 to drm-intel 3.18.0(tag: drm-intel-next-fixes-2014-12-17, notice that i915 driver code is much newer than kernel stable version).
>> - Next update will be around early July, 2015.
>> - KVM support is still in a separate branch as prototype work. We plan to integrate KVM/Xen support together in future releases.
>>
>> This update consists of:
>> - gvt-g core logic code was moved into i915 driver directory.
>> - Host mediation is used for dom0 i915 driver access, instead of de-privileged dom0.
>> - The Xen-specific code was separated from vgt core logic into a new file "driver/xen/xengt.c".
>> - Broadwell is preliminarily supported in this release. Users could start multiple linux/windows 64-bit virtual machines simultaneously, and perform display switch among them.
>>
>> Notice that it is still preliminary release for BDW, which is not yet in the same level of HSW release. Differences include:
>> * Power/performance tuning on BDW is not yet done.
>> * Stability needs to be improved.
>> * No 32-bit guest OS support.
>> * Multi-monitor scenario is not fully tested, while single monitor of VGA/HDMI/DP/eDP should just work.
>>
>>
>> Where to get:
>> -----------------
>> kerenl: https://github.com/01org/XenGT-Preview-kernel.git
>> Xen: https://github.com/01org/XenGT-Preview-xen.git
>> Qemu: https://github.com/01org/XenGT-Preview-qemu.git
>>
>> Please refer to the new setup guide, which provides step-to-step details about building/configuring/running Intel GVT-g:
>> https://github.com/01org/XenGT-Preview-kernel/blob/master-2015Q1-3.18.0/X...
>>
>> More information about Intel GVT-g background, architecture, etc can be found at:
>> https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc14/technical-sessions/presentation/tian
>> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/XenGT-Xen%20S...
>> https://01.org/xen/blogs/srclarkx/2013/graphics-virtualization-xengt
>>
>> The previous update can be found here:
>> http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-12/msg00474.html
>>
>>
>> Note
>> ---------------
>> The XenGT project should be considered a work in progress, As such it is not a complete product nor should it be considered one., Extra care should be taken when testing and configuring a system to use the XenGT project.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Thanks,
>> Jike
>>
>> On 01/09/2015 04:51 PM, Jike Song wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> We're pleased to announce a public update to Intel Graphics Virtualization Technology (Intel GVT-g, formerly known as XenGT). Intel GVT-g is a complete vGPU solution with mediated pass-through, supported today on 4th generation Intel Core(TM) processors with Intel Graphics processors. A virtual GPU instance is maintained for each VM, with part of performance critical resources directly assigned. The capability of running native graphics driver inside a VM, without hypervisor intervention in performance critical paths, achieves a good balance among performance, feature, and sharing capability. Though we only support Xen on Intel Processor Graphics so far, the core logic can be easily ported to other hypervisors. The XenGT project should be considered a work in progress, As such it is not a complete product nor should it be considered one., Extra care should be taken when testing and configuring a system to use the XenGT project.
>>>
>>> The news of this update:
>>>
>>> - kernel update from 3.14.1 to drm-intel 3.17.0.
>>> - We plan to integrate Intel GVT-g as a feature in i915 driver. That effort is still under review, not included in this update yet.
>>> - Next update will be around early Apr, 2015.
>>>
>>> This update consists of:
>>>
>>> - Including some bug fixes and stability enhancement.
>>> - Making XenGT device model to be aware of Broadwell. In this version BDW is not yet functioning.
>>> - Available Fence registers number is changed to 32 from 16 to align with HSW hardware.
>>> - New cascade interrupt framework for supporting interrupt virtualization on both Haswell and Broadwell.
>>> - Add back the gem_vgtbuffer. The previous release did not build that module for 3.14 kernel. In this release, the module is back and rebased to 3.17.
>>> - Enable the irq based context switch in vgt driver, which will help reduce the cpu utilization while doing context switch, it is enabled by default, and can be turn off by kernel flag irq_based_ctx_switch.
>>>
>>>
>>> Please refer to the new setup guide, which provides step-to-step details about building/configuring/running Intel GVT-g:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/01org/XenGT-Preview-kernel/blob/master/XenGT_Setup_Gui...
>>>
>>> The new source codes are available at the updated github repos:
>>>
>>> Linux: https://github.com/01org/XenGT-Preview-kernel.git
>>> Xen: https://github.com/01org/XenGT-Preview-xen.git
>>> Qemu: https://github.com/01org/XenGT-Preview-qemu.git
>>>
>>>
>>> More information about Intel GVT-g background, architecture, etc can be found at:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc14/technical-sessions/presentation/tian
>>> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/XenGT-Xen%20S...
>>> https://01.org/xen/blogs/srclarkx/2013/graphics-virtualization-xengt
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The previous update can be found here:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-12/msg00474.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Appreciate your comments!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jike
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/04/2014 10:45 AM, Jike Song wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> We're pleased to announce a public release to Intel Graphics Virtualization Technology (Intel GVT-g, formerly known as XenGT). Intel GVT-g is a complete vGPU solution with mediated pass-through, supported today on 4th generation Intel Core(TM) processors with Intel Graphics processors. A virtual GPU instance is maintained for each VM, with part of performance critical resources directly assigned. The capability of running native graphics driver inside a VM, without hypervisor intervention in performance critical paths, achieves a good balance among performance, feature, and sharing capability. Though we only support Xen on Intel Processor Graphics so far, the core logic can be easily ported to other hypervisors.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The news of this update:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> - kernel update from 3.11.6 to 3.14.1
>>>>
>>>> - We plan to integrate Intel GVT-g as a feature in i915 driver. That effort is still under review, not included in this update yet
>>>>
>>>> - Next update will be around early Jan, 2015
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This update consists of:
>>>>
>>>> - Windows HVM support with driver version 15.33.3910
>>>>
>>>> - Stability fixes, e.g. stabilize GPU, the GPU hang occurrence rate becomes rare now
>>>>
>>>> - Hardware Media Acceleration for Decoding/Encoding/Transcoding, VC1, H264 etc. format supporting
>>>>
>>>> - Display enhancements, e.g. DP type is supported for virtual PORT
>>>>
>>>> - Display port capability virtualization: with this feature, dom0 manager could freely assign virtual DDI ports to VM, not necessary to check whether the corresponding physical DDI ports are available
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Please refer to the new setup guide, which provides step-to-step details about building/configuring/running Intel GVT-g:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/01org/XenGT-Preview-kernel/blob/master/XenGT_Setup_Gui...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The new source codes are available at the updated github repos:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Linux: https://github.com/01org/XenGT-Preview-kernel.git
>>>>
>>>> Xen: https://github.com/01org/XenGT-Preview-xen.git
>>>>
>>>> Qemu: https://github.com/01org/XenGT-Preview-qemu.git
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> More information about Intel GVT-g background, architecture, etc can be found at:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc14/technical-sessions/presentation/tian
>>>>
>>>> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/XenGT-Xen%20S...
>>>>
>>>> https://01.org/xen/blogs/srclarkx/2013/graphics-virtualization-xengt
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The previous update can be found here:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-07/msg03248.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Appreciate your comments!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Jike
>>>>
>>>> On 07/25/2014 04:31 PM, Jike Song wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> We're pleased to announce an update to Intel Graphics Virtualization Technology (Intel GVT-g, formerly known as XenGT). Intel GVT-g is a complete vGPU solution with mediated pass-through, supported today on 4th generation Intel Core(TM) processors with Intel Graphics processors. A virtual GPU instance is maintained for each VM, with part of performance critical resources directly assigned. The capability of running native graphics driver inside a VM, without hypervisor intervention in performance critical paths, achieves a good balance among performance, feature, and sharing capability. Though we only support Xen on Intel Processor Graphics so far, the core logic can be easily ported to other hypervisors.
>>>>>
>>>>> The news of this update:
>>>>>
>>>>> - Project code name is "XenGT", now official name is Intel Graphics Virtualization Technology (Intel GVT-g)
>>>>> - Currently Intel GVT-g supports Intel Processor Graphics built into 4th generation Intel Core processors - Haswell platform
>>>>> - Moving forward, XenGT will change to quarterly release cadence. Next update will be around early October, 2014.
>>>>>
>>>>> This update consists of:
>>>>>
>>>>> - Stability fixes, e.g. stable DP support
>>>>> - Display enhancements, e.g. virtual monitor support. Users can define a virtual monitor type with customized EDID for virtual machines, not necessarily the same as physical monitors.
>>>>> - Improved support for GPU recovery
>>>>> - Experimental Windows HVM support. To download the experimental version, see setup guide for details
>>>>> - Experimental Hardware Media Acceleration for decoding.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Please refer to the new setup guide, which provides step-to-step details about building/configuring/running Intel GVT-g:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://github.com/01org/XenGT-Preview-kernel/blob/master/XenGT_Setup_Gui...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The new source codes are available at the updated github repos:
>>>>>
>>>>> Linux: https://github.com/01org/XenGT-Preview-kernel.git
>>>>> Xen: https://github.com/01org/XenGT-Preview-xen.git
>>>>> Qemu: https://github.com/01org/XenGT-Preview-qemu.git
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> More information about Intel GVT-g background, architecture, etc can be found at:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc14/technical-sessions/presentation/tian
>>>>> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/XenGT-Xen%20S...
>>>>> https://01.org/xen/blogs/srclarkx/2013/graphics-virtualization-xengt
>>>>>
>>>>> The previous update can be found here:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-02/msg01848.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Appreciate your comments!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Jike
>>>>>
4 years, 4 months
intel vgpu / pass-through chipset requirements
by Gerd Hoffmann
Hi,
I'm looking over the tweaks the kvmgt qemu code is doing to the intel
chipset emulation, for vgpu (and IIRC the requirements for pass-through
are very simliar). I know you guys are working on untangling chipset
and graphics devices on the hardware and guest driver side to make all
this less messy, so I want go over this and check what is actually
needed and what can possibly go away ...
(1) Host bridge
===============
Starts as i440fx device. seabios signals when POST is done. Device
changes identity then, some config space registers (device id, gfx
config) are filled from host then.
Is there anything beside the config space bits?
I've seen vgpu simply copies over the gfx config registers too instead
of filling in there something virtual, are there any differences between
vgpu and pass-through?
The hack to change device identity needs to go away for merging stuff
upstream. So seabios needs some way to figure what the hostbridge
really is (i440fx / q35) to initialize it properly, without playing
masquerade games. One possible option would be a special subsystem id.
Comments? Other suggestions?
(2) ISA bridge
==============
Lives at 1f.0. Device id filled from host. Looks pretty much like a
dummy device, seems it doesn't actually do anything. Did I miss
something? If not: What this is needed for? Get past guest driver
sanity checks?
(3) opregion
============
what is this exactly? Paravirtual communication path between host and
guest igd driver? If so: Can this be moved to vfio?
cheers,
Gerd
5 years, 1 month
XenGT for PV guest
by Oleksii Kurochko
Hi all,
I am trying to enable XenGT for Android on board vtc1010 in PV mode.
Used:
- Intel® Atom™ processor E3827
- Xen 4.3.1 on branch "byt_experiment".
- dom0: ubuntu 14-04 with linux vgt 3.11.6-vgt+ kernel version
- domU: Android-IA 5.1 with 3.11.6-vgt+ (added Android configs) kernel
version
vgt was successfully started in dom0.
vgt does not start in domU. After registration of pci dev in i915_init()
there is no call of i915_pci_driver.probe(). Inte HD Graphics is on pci
bus, but it is not passthrough to domU. When tried to passtrough it to domU
than dom0 crashes in drm_framebuffer_remove(). More than that it is not my
case because of intel hd graphics need to be working in dom0 and domU.
So could U give advice how to probe i915 driver in domU?
With best,
Oleksii
--
Oleksii Kurochko | Embedded Dev
GlobalLogic
www.globallogic.com
5 years, 3 months
[PATCH] drm/i915: more virtual south bridge detection
by Gerd Hoffmann
Commit "30c964a drm/i915: Detect virtual south bridge" detects and
handles the southbridge emulated by vmware esx. Add the ich9 south
bridge emulated by 'qemu -M q35'.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel(a)redhat.com>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c | 3 ++-
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
index 760e0ce..a3c482e 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
@@ -531,7 +531,8 @@ void intel_detect_pch(struct drm_device *dev)
dev_priv->pch_type = PCH_SPT;
DRM_DEBUG_KMS("Found SunrisePoint LP PCH\n");
WARN_ON(!IS_SKYLAKE(dev));
- } else if (id == INTEL_PCH_P2X_DEVICE_ID_TYPE) {
+ } else if ((id == INTEL_PCH_P2X_DEVICE_ID_TYPE) ||
+ (id == INTEL_PCH_QEMU_DEVICE_ID_TYPE)) {
dev_priv->pch_type = intel_virt_detect_pch(dev);
} else
continue;
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
index 95bb27d..463ab22 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
@@ -2604,6 +2604,7 @@ struct drm_i915_cmd_table {
#define INTEL_PCH_SPT_DEVICE_ID_TYPE 0xA100
#define INTEL_PCH_SPT_LP_DEVICE_ID_TYPE 0x9D00
#define INTEL_PCH_P2X_DEVICE_ID_TYPE 0x7100
+#define INTEL_PCH_QEMU_DEVICE_ID_TYPE 0x2900 /* qemu q35 has 2918 */
#define INTEL_PCH_TYPE(dev) (__I915__(dev)->pch_type)
#define HAS_PCH_SPT(dev) (INTEL_PCH_TYPE(dev) == PCH_SPT)
--
1.8.3.1
5 years, 3 months
XenGT on Broadwell: "hda-i915: get_power symbol get fail"
by Joseph Kogut
I have XenGT up and running on a Haswell machine, but when I use the
same packages on a Broadwell machine of mine, the i915 driver does not
load. During boot, the text console flashes a few times, and the boot
process freezes for a minute.
The message I get is:
> hda-i915: get_power symbol get fail
> snd_hda_intel 0000:00:03.0: Error request power-well from i915
When booting the iGVT-g enabled kernel without Xen, the i915 module
loads fine, and I can get to the desktop.
I've tried both enabling and disabling i915.disable_power_well, and
blacklisting snd_hda_intel.
5 years, 3 months
Re: [iGVT-g] [Intel-gfx] [Announcement] 2015-Q3 release of XenGT - a Mediated Graphics Passthrough Solution from Intel
by Gerd Hoffmann
Hi,
> But there's some work to add generic mmap support to dma-bufs, and for
> really simple case (where we don't have a gl driver to handle the dma-buf
> specially) for untiled framebuffers that would be all we need?
Not requiring gl is certainly a bonus, people might want build qemu
without opengl support to reduce the attach surface and/or package
dependency chain.
And, yes, requirements for the non-gl rendering path are pretty low.
qemu needs something it can mmap, and which it can ask pixman to handle.
Preferred format is PIXMAN_x8r8g8b8 (qemu uses that internally in alot
of places so this avoids conversions).
Current plan is to have a special vfio region (not visible to the guest)
where the framebuffer lives, with one or two pages at the end for meta
data (format and size). Status field is there too and will be used by
qemu to request updates and the kernel to signal update completion.
Guess I should write that down as vfio rfc patch ...
I don't think it makes sense to have fields to notify qemu about which
framebuffer regions have been updated, I'd expect with full-screen
composing we have these days this information isn't available anyway.
Maybe a flag telling whenever there have been updates or not, so qemu
can skip update processing in case we have the screensaver showing a
black screen all day long.
cheers,
Gerd
5 years, 3 months
Re: [iGVT-g] [Intel-gfx] [Announcement] 2015-Q3 release of XenGT - a Mediated Graphics Passthrough Solution from Intel
by Gerd Hoffmann
Hi,
> > Yes, vGPU may have additional features, like a framebuffer area, that
> > aren't present or optional for direct assignment. Obviously we support
> > direct assignment of GPUs for some vendors already without this feature.
>
> For exposing framebuffers for spice/vnc I highly recommend against
> anything that looks like a bar/fixed mmio range mapping. First this means
> the kernel driver needs to internally fake remapping, which isn't fun.
Sure. I don't think we should remap here. More below.
> My recoomendation is to build the actual memory access for underlying
> framebuffers on top of dma-buf, so that it can be vacuumed up by e.g. the
> host gpu driver again for rendering.
We want that too ;)
Some more background:
OpenGL support in qemu is still young and emerging, and we are actually
building on dma-bufs here. There are a bunch of different ways how
guest display output is handled. At the end of the day it boils down to
only two fundamental cases though:
(a) Where qemu doesn't need access to the guest framebuffer
- qemu directly renders via opengl (works today with virtio-gpu
and will be in the qemu 2.5 release)
- qemu passed on the dma-buf to spice client for local display
(experimental code exists).
- qemu feeds the guest display into gpu-assisted video encoder
to send a stream over the network (no code yet).
(b) Where qemu must read the guest framebuffer.
- qemu's builtin vnc server.
- qemu writing screenshots to file.
- (non-opengl legacy code paths for local display, will
hopefully disappear long-term though ...)
So, the question is how to support (b) best. Even with OpenGL support
in qemu improving over time I don't expect this going away completely
anytime soon.
I think it makes sense to have a special vfio region for that. I don't
think remapping makes sense there. It doesn't need to be "live", it
doesn't need support high refresh rates. Placing a copy of the guest
framebuffer there on request (and convert from tiled to linear while
being at it) is perfectly fine. qemu has a adaptive update rate and
will stop doing frequent update requests when the vnc client
disconnects, so there will be nothing to do if nobody wants actually see
the guest display.
Possible alternative approach would be to import a dma-buf, then use
glReadPixels(). I suspect when doing the copy in the kernel the driver
could ask just the gpu to blit the guest framebuffer. Don't know gfx
hardware good enough to be sure though, comments are welcome.
cheers,
Gerd
5 years, 3 months
Arch Linux AUR Packages
by Joseph Kogut
For those who want to try iGVT-g and are running Arch, I've made a
couple of PKGBUILDs for the kernel and Xen components of the project.
Patches are included to automatically fix incompatibilities with the
latest version of GCC (5.2.0).
The repos can be found here:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linux-igvtg/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xen-igvtg/
Because of a recent change in the binutils project which breaks
x86_64-pep emulation, the efi binary build process does not work. If
you are booting an efi system, GRUB 2 is recommended.
A package for the KVMGT version of Qemu should be forthcoming.
5 years, 3 months
