(Apologies to anyone who has received more than one version of this
series of emails; my git-send-email was misconfigured and this is
a new attempt.)
This patch set introduces a new ARM and macOS HVF specific machine type
called "vmapple", as well as a family of display devices based on the
ParavirtualizedGraphics.framework in macOS. One of the display adapter
variants, apple-gfx-vmapple, is required for the new machine type, while
apple-gfx-pci can be used to enable 3D graphics acceleration with x86-64
macOS guest OSes.
Previous versions of this patch set were submitted semi-separately:
the original vmapple patch set by Alexander Graf included a monolithic
implementation of apple-gfx-vmapple. I subsequently reviewed and reworked
the latter to support the PCI variant of the device as well and submitted
the result in isolation. As requested in subsequent review, I have now
recombined this with the original vmapple patch set, which I have updated
and improved in a few ways as well.
The vmapple machine type approximates the configuration in macOS's own
Virtualization.framework when running arm64 macOS guests. In addition to
generic components such as a GICv3 and an XHCI USB controller, it
includes nonstandard extensions to the virtio block device, a special
"hardware" aes engine, a configuration device, a pvpanic variant, a
"backdoor" interface, and of course the apple-gfx paravirtualised display
adapter.
There are currently a few limitations to this which aren't intrinsic,
just imperfect emulation of the VZF, but it's good enough to be just
about usable for some purposes:
* macOS 12 guests only. Versions 13+ currently fail during early boot.
* macOS 11+ arm64 hosts only, with hvf accel. (Perhaps some differences
between Apple M series CPUs and TCG's aarch64 implementation? macOS
hosts only because ParavirtualizedGraphics.framework is a black box
implementing most of the logic behind the apple-gfx device.)
* PCI devices use legacy IRQs, not MSI/MSI-X. As far as I can tell,
we'd need to include the GICv3 ITS, but it's unclear to me what
exactly needs wiring up.
* Due to lack of MSI(-X), event delivery from USB devices to the guest
macOS isn't working correctly. My current conclusion is that the
OS's XHCI driver simply was never designed to work with legacy IRQs.
The upshot is that keyboard and mouse/tablet input is very laggy.
The solution would be to implement MSI(-X) support or figure out how
to make hcd-xhci-sysbus work with the macOS guest, if at all possible.
(EHCI and UHCI/OHCI controllers are not an option as the VMAPPLE
guest kernel does not include drivers for these.)
* The guest OS must first be provisioned using Virtualization.framework;
the disk images can subsequently be used in Qemu. (See docs.)
The apple-gfx device can be used independently from the vmapple machine
type, at least in the PCI variant. It mainly targets x86-64 macOS guests
from version 11 on, but also includes a UEFI bootrom for basic
framebuffer mode. macOS 11 is also required on the host side, as well
as a GPU that supports the Metal API. On the guest side, this provides
3D acceleration/GPGPU support with a baseline Metal feature set,
irrespective of the host GPU's feature set. A few limitations in the
current integration:
* Although it works fine with TCG, it does not work correctly
cross-architecture: x86-64 guests on arm64 hosts appear to make
some boot progress, but rendering is corrupted. I suspect
incompatible texture memory layouts; I have no idea if this is
fixable.
* ParavirtualizedGraphics.framework and the guest driver support
multi-headed configurations. The current Qemu integration always
connects precisely 1 display.
* State serialisation and deserialisation is currently not
implemented, though supported in principle by the framework.
Both apple-gfx variants thus set up a migration blocker.
* Rendering efficiency could be better. The GPU-rendered guest
framebuffer is copied to system memory and uses Qemu's usual
CPU-based drawing. For maximum efficiency, the Metal texture
containing the guest framebuffer could be drawn directly to
a Metal view in the host window, staying on the GPU. (Similar
to the OpenGL/virgl render path on other platforms.)
---
v2 -> v3:
* Merged the apple-gfx and vmapple patchsets.
* Squashed a bunch of later apple-gfx patches into the main one.
(dGPU support, queried MMIO area size, host GPU picking logic.)
* Rebased on latest upstream, fixing any breakages due to internal
Qemu API changes.
* apple-gfx: Switched to re-entrant MMIO. This is supported by the
underlying framework and simplifies the MMIO forwarding code which
was previously different on x86-64 vs aarch64.
* vmapple: Fixes for minor bugs and comments from the last round of
review.
* vmapple aes, conf, apple-gfx: Switched reset methods to implement
the ResettableClass base's interface.
* vmapple: switched from virtio-hid to an XHCI USB controller and
USB mouse and tablet devices. macOS does not provide drivers for
virtio HID devices, at least not in version 12's vmapple kernel.
So input now sort of works (interrupt issues) rather than not
at all. Use network-based remote access to the guest OS as a
work-around.
Alexander Graf (9):
hw: Add vmapple subdir
hw/misc/pvpanic: Add MMIO interface
hvf: arm: Ignore writes to CNTP_CTL_EL0
gpex: Allow more than 4 legacy IRQs
hw/vmapple/aes: Introduce aes engine
hw/vmapple/bdif: Introduce vmapple backdoor interface
hw/vmapple/cfg: Introduce vmapple cfg region
hw/vmapple/virtio-blk: Add support for apple virtio-blk
hw/vmapple/vmapple: Add vmapple machine type
Phil Dennis-Jordan (5):
hw/display/apple-gfx: Introduce ParavirtualizedGraphics.Framework
support
hw/display/apple-gfx: Adds PCI implementation
ui/cocoa: Adds non-app runloop on main thread mode
hw/display/apple-gfx: Adds configurable mode list
MAINTAINERS: Add myself as maintainer for apple-gfx, reviewer for HVF
MAINTAINERS | 15 +
docs/system/arm/vmapple.rst | 63 +++
docs/system/target-arm.rst | 1 +
hw/Kconfig | 1 +
hw/arm/sbsa-ref.c | 2 +-
hw/arm/virt.c | 2 +-
hw/block/virtio-blk.c | 19 +-
hw/display/Kconfig | 14 +
hw/display/apple-gfx-pci.m | 179 +++++++++
hw/display/apple-gfx-vmapple.m | 215 ++++++++++
hw/display/apple-gfx.h | 72 ++++
hw/display/apple-gfx.m | 668 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
hw/display/meson.build | 3 +
hw/display/trace-events | 26 ++
hw/i386/microvm.c | 2 +-
hw/loongarch/virt.c | 2 +-
hw/meson.build | 1 +
hw/mips/loongson3_virt.c | 2 +-
hw/misc/Kconfig | 4 +
hw/misc/meson.build | 1 +
hw/misc/pvpanic-mmio.c | 61 +++
hw/openrisc/virt.c | 12 +-
hw/pci-host/gpex.c | 36 +-
hw/riscv/virt.c | 12 +-
hw/vmapple/Kconfig | 32 ++
hw/vmapple/aes.c | 584 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
hw/vmapple/bdif.c | 245 ++++++++++++
hw/vmapple/cfg.c | 106 +++++
hw/vmapple/meson.build | 5 +
hw/vmapple/trace-events | 26 ++
hw/vmapple/trace.h | 1 +
hw/vmapple/virtio-blk.c | 212 ++++++++++
hw/vmapple/vmapple.c | 661 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
hw/xtensa/virt.c | 2 +-
include/hw/misc/pvpanic.h | 1 +
include/hw/pci-host/gpex.h | 7 +-
include/hw/pci/pci_ids.h | 1 +
include/hw/virtio/virtio-blk.h | 12 +-
include/hw/vmapple/bdif.h | 31 ++
include/hw/vmapple/cfg.h | 68 ++++
include/hw/vmapple/virtio-blk.h | 39 ++
include/qemu-main.h | 2 +
meson.build | 5 +
target/arm/hvf/hvf.c | 9 +
ui/cocoa.m | 15 +-
45 files changed, 3443 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 docs/system/arm/vmapple.rst
create mode 100644 hw/display/apple-gfx-pci.m
create mode 100644 hw/display/apple-gfx-vmapple.m
create mode 100644 hw/display/apple-gfx.h
create mode 100644 hw/display/apple-gfx.m
create mode 100644 hw/misc/pvpanic-mmio.c
create mode 100644 hw/vmapple/Kconfig
create mode 100644 hw/vmapple/aes.c
create mode 100644 hw/vmapple/bdif.c
create mode 100644 hw/vmapple/cfg.c
create mode 100644 hw/vmapple/meson.build
create mode 100644 hw/vmapple/trace-events
create mode 100644 hw/vmapple/trace.h
create mode 100644 hw/vmapple/virtio-blk.c
create mode 100644 hw/vmapple/vmapple.c
create mode 100644 include/hw/vmapple/bdif.h
create mode 100644 include/hw/vmapple/cfg.h
create mode 100644 include/hw/vmapple/virtio-blk.h
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