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author | Peter Maydell | 2020-07-20 16:58:07 +0200 |
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committer | Peter Maydell | 2020-07-20 16:58:07 +0200 |
commit | af3d69058e09bede9900f266a618ed11f76f49f3 (patch) | |
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parent | Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/dgibson/tags/ppc-for-5.1-20200720' into... (diff) | |
parent | docs/system: Document the arm virt board (diff) | |
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/pmaydell/tags/pull-target-arm-20200720' into staging
target-arm queue:
* virt: Don't enable MTE emulation by default
* virt: Diagnose attempts to use MTE with memory-hotplug or KVM
(rather than silently not working correctly)
* util: Implement qemu_get_thread_id() for OpenBSD
* qdev: Add doc comments for qdev_unrealize and GPIO functions,
and standardize on doc-comments-in-header-file
* hw/arm/armsse: Assert info->num_cpus is in-bounds in armsse_realize()
* docs/system: Document canon-a1100, collie, gumstix, virt boards
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* remotes/pmaydell/tags/pull-target-arm-20200720:
docs/system: Document the arm virt board
docs/system: Briefly document gumstix boards
docs/system: Briefly document collie board
docs/system: Briefly document canon-a1100 board
hw/arm/armsse: Assert info->num_cpus is in-bounds in armsse_realize()
qdev: Document GPIO related functions
qdev: Document qdev_unrealize()
qdev: Move doc comments from qdev.c to qdev-core.h
util: Implement qemu_get_thread_id() for OpenBSD
hw/arm/virt: Disable memory hotplug when MTE is enabled
hw/arm/virt: Error for MTE enabled with KVM
hw/arm/virt: Enable MTE via a machine property
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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diff --git a/docs/system/arm/virt.rst b/docs/system/arm/virt.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6621ab7205 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/system/arm/virt.rst @@ -0,0 +1,161 @@ +'virt' generic virtual platform (``virt``) +========================================== + +The `virt` board is a platform which does not correspond to any +real hardware; it is designed for use in virtual machines. +It is the recommended board type if you simply want to run +a guest such as Linux and do not care about reproducing the +idiosyncrasies and limitations of a particular bit of real-world +hardware. + +This is a "versioned" board model, so as well as the ``virt`` machine +type itself (which may have improvements, bugfixes and other minor +changes between QEMU versions) a version is provided that guarantees +to have the same behaviour as that of previous QEMU releases, so +that VM migration will work between QEMU versions. For instance the +``virt-5.0`` machine type will behave like the ``virt`` machine from +the QEMU 5.0 release, and migration should work between ``virt-5.0`` +of the 5.0 release and ``virt-5.0`` of the 5.1 release. Migration +is not guaranteed to work between different QEMU releases for +the non-versioned ``virt`` machine type. + +Supported devices +""""""""""""""""" + +The virt board supports: + +- PCI/PCIe devices +- Flash memory +- One PL011 UART +- An RTC +- The fw_cfg device that allows a guest to obtain data from QEMU +- A PL061 GPIO controller +- An optional SMMUv3 IOMMU +- hotpluggable DIMMs +- hotpluggable NVDIMMs +- An MSI controller (GICv2M or ITS). GICv2M is selected by default along + with GICv2. ITS is selected by default with GICv3 (>= virt-2.7). Note + that ITS is not modeled in TCG mode. +- 32 virtio-mmio transport devices +- running guests using the KVM accelerator on aarch64 hardware +- large amounts of RAM (at least 255GB, and more if using highmem) +- many CPUs (up to 512 if using a GICv3 and highmem) +- Secure-World-only devices if the CPU has TrustZone: + + - A second PL011 UART + - A secure flash memory + - 16MB of secure RAM + +Supported guest CPU types: + +- ``cortex-a7`` (32-bit) +- ``cortex-a15`` (32-bit; the default) +- ``cortex-a53`` (64-bit) +- ``cortex-a57`` (64-bit) +- ``cortex-a72`` (64-bit) +- ``host`` (with KVM only) +- ``max`` (same as ``host`` for KVM; best possible emulation with TCG) + +Note that the default is ``cortex-a15``, so for an AArch64 guest you must +specify a CPU type. + +Graphics output is available, but unlike the x86 PC machine types +there is no default display device enabled: you should select one from +the Display devices section of "-device help". The recommended option +is ``virtio-gpu-pci``; this is the only one which will work correctly +with KVM. You may also need to ensure your guest kernel is configured +with support for this; see below. + +Machine-specific options +"""""""""""""""""""""""" + +The following machine-specific options are supported: + +secure + Set ``on``/``off`` to enable/disable emulating a guest CPU which implements the + Arm Security Extensions (TrustZone). The default is ``off``. + +virtualization + Set ``on``/``off`` to enable/disable emulating a guest CPU which implements the + Arm Virtualization Extensions. The default is ``off``. + +highmem + Set ``on``/``off`` to enable/disable placing devices and RAM in physical + address space above 32 bits. The default is ``on`` for machine types + later than ``virt-2.12``. + +gic-version + Specify the version of the Generic Interrupt Controller (GIC) to provide. + Valid values are: + + ``2`` + GICv2 + ``3`` + GICv3 + ``host`` + Use the same GIC version the host provides, when using KVM + ``max`` + Use the best GIC version possible (same as host when using KVM; + currently same as ``3``` for TCG, but this may change in future) + +its + Set ``on``/``off`` to enable/disable ITS instantiation. The default is ``on`` + for machine types later than ``virt-2.7``. + +iommu + Set the IOMMU type to create for the guest. Valid values are: + + ``none`` + Don't create an IOMMU (the default) + ``smmuv3`` + Create an SMMUv3 + +ras + Set ``on``/``off`` to enable/disable reporting host memory errors to a guest + using ACPI and guest external abort exceptions. The default is off. + +Linux guest kernel configuration +"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" + +The 'defconfig' for Linux arm and arm64 kernels should include the +right device drivers for virtio and the PCI controller; however some older +kernel versions, especially for 32-bit Arm, did not have everything +enabled by default. If you're not seeing PCI devices that you expect, +then check that your guest config has:: + + CONFIG_PCI=y + CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI=y + CONFIG_PCI_HOST_GENERIC=y + +If you want to use the ``virtio-gpu-pci`` graphics device you will also +need:: + + CONFIG_DRM=y + CONFIG_DRM_VIRTIO_GPU=y + +Hardware configuration information for bare-metal programming +""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" + +The ``virt`` board automatically generates a device tree blob ("dtb") +which it passes to the guest. This provides information about the +addresses, interrupt lines and other configuration of the various devices +in the system. Guest code can rely on and hard-code the following +addresses: + +- Flash memory starts at address 0x0000_0000 + +- RAM starts at 0x4000_0000 + +All other information about device locations may change between +QEMU versions, so guest code must look in the DTB. + +QEMU supports two types of guest image boot for ``virt``, and +the way for the guest code to locate the dtb binary differs: + +- For guests using the Linux kernel boot protocol (this means any + non-ELF file passed to the QEMU ``-kernel`` option) the address + of the DTB is passed in a register (``r2`` for 32-bit guests, + or ``x0`` for 64-bit guests) + +- For guests booting as "bare-metal" (any other kind of boot), + the DTB is at the start of RAM (0x4000_0000) |