[PATCH 04/14] arm/arm64: KVM: wrap 64 bit MMIO accesses with two 32 bit ones

Andre Przywara andre.przywara at arm.com
Fri Jun 20 01:34:38 PDT 2014


On 19/06/14 22:15, Chalamarla, Tirumalesh wrote:
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kvmarm-bounces at lists.cs.columbia.edu [mailto:kvmarm-bounces at lists.cs.columbia.edu] On Behalf Of Andre Przywara
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 2:46 AM
> To: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org; kvmarm at lists.cs.columbia.edu; kvm at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: christoffer.dall at linaro.org
> Subject: [PATCH 04/14] arm/arm64: KVM: wrap 64 bit MMIO accesses with two 32 bit ones
>
> Some GICv3 registers can and will be accessed as 64 bit registers.
> Currently the register handling code can only deal with 32 bit accesses, so we do two consecutive calls to cover this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
> ---
>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c |   48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 45 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c index 4c6b212..b3cf4c7 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c
> @@ -906,6 +906,48 @@ static bool vgic_validate_access(const struct vgic_dist *dist,  }
>
>  /*
> + * Call the respective handler function for the given range.
> + * We split up any 64 bit accesses into two consecutive 32 bit
> + * handler calls and merge the result afterwards.
> + */
> +static bool call_range_handler(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> +                            struct kvm_exit_mmio *mmio,
> +                            unsigned long offset,
> +                            const struct mmio_range *range) {
> +     u32 *data32 = (void *)mmio->data;
> +     struct kvm_exit_mmio mmio32;
> +     bool ret;
> +
> +     if (likely(mmio->len <= 4))
> +             return range->handle_mmio(vcpu, mmio, offset);
> +
> +     /*
> +      * We assume that any access greater than 4 bytes is actually
> +      * 8 bytes long, caused by a 64-bit access
> +      */
> +
> +     mmio32.len = 4;
> +     mmio32.is_write = mmio->is_write;
> +
> +     mmio32.phys_addr = mmio->phys_addr + 4;
> +     if (mmio->is_write)
> +             *(u32 *)mmio32.data = data32[1];
> +     ret = range->handle_mmio(vcpu, &mmio32, offset + 4);
> +     if (!mmio->is_write)
> +             data32[1] = *(u32 *)mmio32.data;
> +
> +     mmio32.phys_addr = mmio->phys_addr;
> +     if (mmio->is_write)
> +             *(u32 *)mmio32.data = data32[0];
> +     ret |= range->handle_mmio(vcpu, &mmio32, offset);
> +     if (!mmio->is_write)
> +             data32[0] = *(u32 *)mmio32.data;
> +
> +     return ret;
> +}
>
> Any reason to use two 32 bits instead of one 64 bit. AArch32 on ARMv8 may be.

For the registers we care about right now we get along with this split.
And it seems to be less intrusive.
I have a patch to support native 64-bit accesses, but it needs some more
work. If there is high demand for it, I can post it (but Marc didn't
like the first version so much ;-) )

Regards,
Andre.

>
> +
> +/*
>   * vgic_handle_mmio_range - handle an in-kernel MMIO access
>   * @vcpu:    pointer to the vcpu performing the access
>   * @run:     pointer to the kvm_run structure
> @@ -936,10 +978,10 @@ static bool vgic_handle_mmio_range(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run,
>       spin_lock(&vcpu->kvm->arch.vgic.lock);
>       offset -= range->base;
>       if (vgic_validate_access(dist, range, offset)) {
> -             updated_state = range->handle_mmio(vcpu, mmio, offset);
> +             updated_state = call_range_handler(vcpu, mmio, offset, range);
>       } else {
> -             vgic_reg_access(mmio, NULL, offset,
> -                             ACCESS_READ_RAZ | ACCESS_WRITE_IGNORED);
> +             if (!mmio->is_write)
> +                     memset(mmio->data, 0, mmio->len);
>
>              What is the use of this memset.
>
>               updated_state = false;
>       }
>       spin_unlock(&vcpu->kvm->arch.vgic.lock);
> --
> 1.7.9.5
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