[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
Mon Jun 23 01:26:55 PDT 2014


On 21/06/14 18:19, Victor Kamensky wrote:
> On 21 June 2014 02:53, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com> wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> Sure, absolutely, please go ahead.
> 
> I am not sure about order of getting into kvmarm tree between
> GICv3 series and BE KVM series, If BE KVM series go first, you can
> pickup accessors changes right now and add backout of
> asm file change when it sees BE KVM series. Actually you would
> need to back them out not from vgic-v2-switch.S but from hyp.S
> (that was one of few conflicts when I've tried both series together).
> If GICv3 series go first, again accessors changes could be picked
> right now and when KVM BE series sees hyp.S change will have
> to be dropped.

I had a quick look myself, and it feels like having GICv3 first and then
KVM-BE after that is a bit easier. I don't want to put the burden of
that on you though, so I'll probably end up doing the merge myself.

Would you be OK to review it?

Thanks,

	M.
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