[PATCH v4 12/14] ARM64: KVM: vgic_elrsr and vgic_eisr need to be byteswapped in BE case

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Sat Jun 21 02:53:14 PDT 2014


Hi Victor,

On Thu, Jun 19 2014 at 04:46:14 AM, Victor Kamensky <victor.kamensky at linaro.org> wrote:
> Christoffer, Marc,
>
> Please see inline. I am looking for your opinion/advise on how
> we go further about this patch.
>
> On 14 June 2014 08:47, Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 08:42:58AM -0700, Victor Kamensky wrote:
>>> On 14 June 2014 08:04, Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org> wrote:
>>> > On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 09:30:11AM -0700, Victor Kamensky wrote:
>>> >> On arm64 'u32 vgic_eisr[2];' and 'u32 vgic_elrsr[2]' are accessed as
>>> >> one 'unsigned long *' bit fields, which has 64bit size. So we need to
>>> >> swap least significant word with most significant word when code reads
>>> >> those registers from h/w.
>>> >>
>>> >> Signed-off-by: Victor Kamensky <victor.kamensky at linaro.org>
>>> >> ---
>>> >>  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S | 7 +++++++
>>> >>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>>> >>
>>> >> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S
>>> >> index 0620691..5035b41 100644
>>> >> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S
>>> >> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S
>>> >> @@ -415,10 +415,17 @@ CPU_BE( rev     w11, w11 )
>>> >>       str     w4, [x3, #VGIC_CPU_HCR]
>>> >>       str     w5, [x3, #VGIC_CPU_VMCR]
>>> >>       str     w6, [x3, #VGIC_CPU_MISR]
>>> >> +#ifndef CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
>>> >>       str     w7, [x3, #VGIC_CPU_EISR]
>>> >>       str     w8, [x3, #(VGIC_CPU_EISR + 4)]
>>> >>       str     w9, [x3, #VGIC_CPU_ELRSR]
>>> >>       str     w10, [x3, #(VGIC_CPU_ELRSR + 4)]
>>> >> +#else
>>> >> +     str     w7, [x3, #(VGIC_CPU_EISR + 4)]
>>> >> +     str     w8, [x3, #VGIC_CPU_EISR]
>>> >> +     str     w9, [x3, #(VGIC_CPU_ELRSR + 4)]
>>> >> +     str     w10, [x3, #VGIC_CPU_ELRSR]
>>> >> +#endif
>>> >>       str     w11, [x3, #VGIC_CPU_APR]
>>> >>
>>> >>       /* Clear GICH_HCR */
>>> >> --
>>> >> 1.8.1.4
>>> >>
>>> > I thought Marc had something here which allowed you to deal with the
>>> > conversion in the accessor functions and avoid this patch?
>>>
>>> Christoffer, I appreciate your review comments.
>>>
>>> I think I was missing something. Yes, Marc mentioned in [1] about
>>> his new changes in vgic3 series. But just after rereading it now, I
>>> realized that he was suggesting to pick up his commits and add
>>> them to this series. Is it my right understanding that they should
>>> be [2] and [3] ... looking a bit closer to it, it seems that [4] is needed
>>> as well. I am concerned that I don't understand all dependencies
>>> and impact of those. Wondering about other way around. When vgic3
>>> series introduced could we just back off above change and do it in
>>> new right way?
>>>
>>> [1] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/pipermail/kvmarm/2014-May/009618.html
>>> [2] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/pipermail/kvmarm/2014-May/009475.html
>>> [3] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/pipermail/kvmarm/2014-May/009472.html
>>> [4] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/pipermail/kvmarm/2014-May/009473.html
>>>
>>> Other question: I was testing all this directly on vanilla v3.15, should I
>>> use some other armkvm specific integration branch to make sure it works
>>> with all other in a queue armkvm changes.
>>>
>>> In mean time I will try to pick up [4], [2], and [3] into v3.15 and see
>>> how it goes.
>>>
>> ok, thanks.  I'm ok with potentially adjusting this later if it turns
>> out to be a pain, depends on what Marc says.
>
> I've tried BE KVM series along with Marc's vgic3 series
> and looked closely at picking up accessors to eisr and elrsr
> from the vgic3 series ([1] and [2]). It is not trivial. First of
> all, existing patches besides accessors introduce callbacks
> in vgic_ops, and that pulls pretty much everything before it.
> I did try to split [1] and [2] into couple patches each,
> one with accessors and another adding vgic_ops callbacks.
> In such way I could pick first part and leave vgic_ops
> callback in the series. Split worked OK. I can give example
> how it would look. However when I've tried to move accessors
> part to top of Marc's vgic3 series I got massive conflicts.
> Personally I don't have confidence that I can resolve them
> correctly, and I don't think Marc would want to do that
> as well. I don't think it is worth it.
>
> Instead I propose let's come back to cleaning it up latter
> after vgic3 code gets in. I've tried the following patch in
> tree with combined series and it worked OK.
>
> Author: Victor Kamensky <victor.kamensky at linaro.org>
> Date:   Tue Jun 17 21:20:25 2014 -0700
>
>     ARM64: KVM: change vgic2 eisr and elrsr word order in big endian case
>
>     Now when code uses eisr and elrsr the accessors, move big endian
>     related code into the accessors. Now in eisr and elrsr arrays
>     keep least siginificant word at index 0 and most siginificant
>     word at index 1. Asm code that stores values in array is the
>     same for little and big endian cases. Correct endian neutral
>     access to u64 values provided by accessors functions.
>
>     Signed-off-by: Victor Kamensky <victor.kamensky at linaro.org>
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic-v2-switch.S b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic-v2-switch.S
> index d5fc5aa..ae21177 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic-v2-switch.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic-v2-switch.S
> @@ -67,17 +67,10 @@ CPU_BE(     rev     w11, w11 )
>         str     w4, [x3, #VGIC_V2_CPU_HCR]
>         str     w5, [x3, #VGIC_V2_CPU_VMCR]
>         str     w6, [x3, #VGIC_V2_CPU_MISR]
> -#ifndef CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
>         str     w7, [x3, #VGIC_V2_CPU_EISR]
>         str     w8, [x3, #(VGIC_V2_CPU_EISR + 4)]
>         str     w9, [x3, #VGIC_V2_CPU_ELRSR]
>         str     w10, [x3, #(VGIC_V2_CPU_ELRSR + 4)]
> -#else
> -       str     w7, [x3, #(VGIC_V2_CPU_EISR + 4)]
> -       str     w8, [x3, #VGIC_V2_CPU_EISR]
> -       str     w9, [x3, #(VGIC_V2_CPU_ELRSR + 4)]
> -       str     w10, [x3, #VGIC_V2_CPU_ELRSR]
> -#endif
>         str     w11, [x3, #VGIC_V2_CPU_APR]
>
>         /* Clear GICH_HCR */
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v2.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v2.c
> index a55a9a4..a4b6f13 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v2.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v2.c
> @@ -79,14 +79,30 @@ static void vgic_v2_sync_lr_elrsr(struct kvm_vcpu
> *vcpu, int lr,
>
>  static u64 vgic_v2_get_elrsr(const struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  {
> +       u64 ret;
>         const u32 *elrsr = vcpu->arch.vgic_cpu.vgic_v2.vgic_elrsr;
> -       return *(u64 *)elrsr;
> +       /*
> +        * vgic v2 elrsr is kept as two words, with least significant
> +        * word first. Get its value in endian agnostic way.
> +        */
> +       ret = *(elrsr + 1);
> +       ret = ret << 32;
> +       ret = ret | *elrsr;
> +       return ret;
>  }
>
>  static u64 vgic_v2_get_eisr(const struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  {
> +       u64 ret;
>         const u32 *eisr = vcpu->arch.vgic_cpu.vgic_v2.vgic_eisr;
> -       return *(u64 *)eisr;
> +       /*
> +        * vgic v2 eisr is kept as two words, with least siginificant
> +        * word first. Get its value in endian agnostic way.
> +        */
> +       ret = *(eisr + 1);
> +       ret = ret << 32;
> +       ret = ret | *eisr;
> +       return ret;
>  }
>
>  static u32 vgic_v2_get_interrupt_status(const struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>
> Basically it backoffs this commit and changes accessor to read
> values assuming that vgic_v2 eisr and elrsr array holds value of
> least siginificant word at index 0, and most significant word at
> index 1.
>
> Please let me know what you think.

I very much like this solution. Do you mind if I fold this into the
GICv3 series?

Thanks,

	M.
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