[PATCH v9 15/17] KVM: arm64: implement ITS command queue command handlers

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Fri Jul 15 01:19:46 PDT 2016


On 14/07/16 17:33, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 14/07/16 16:35, Andre Przywara wrote:
>> Hi Marc,
>>
>> On 14/07/16 11:38, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>> On 13/07/16 02:59, Andre Przywara wrote:
>>>> The connection between a device, an event ID, the LPI number and the
>>>> associated CPU is stored in in-memory tables in a GICv3, but their
>>>> format is not specified by the spec. Instead software uses a command
>>>> queue in a ring buffer to let an ITS implementation use its own
>>>> format.
>>>> Implement handlers for the various ITS commands and let them store
>>>> the requested relation into our own data structures. Those data
>>>> structures are protected by the its_lock mutex.
>>>> Our internal ring buffer read and write pointers are protected by the
>>>> its_cmd mutex, so that only one VCPU per ITS can handle commands at
>>>> any given time.
>>>> Error handling is very basic at the moment, as we don't have a good
>>>> way of communicating errors to the guest (usually an SError).
>>>> The INT command handler is missing from this patch, as we gain the
>>>> capability of actually injecting MSIs into the guest only later on.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-its.c | 599 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>>>  1 file changed, 598 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-its.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-its.c
>>>> index 60108f8..28abfcd 100644
>>>> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-its.c
>>>> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-its.c
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>>  
>>>>  /*
>>>> + * Promotes the ITS view of affinity of an ITTE (which redistributor this LPI
>>>> + * is targeting) to the VGIC's view, which deals with target VCPUs.
>>>> + * Needs to be called whenever either the collection for a LPIs has
>>>> + * changed or the collection itself got retargeted.
>>>> + */
>>>> +static void update_affinity_itte(struct kvm *kvm, struct its_itte *itte)
>>>> +{
>>>> +	struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu;
>>>> +
>>>> +	vcpu = kvm_get_vcpu(kvm, itte->collection->target_addr);
>>>
>>> What happens if the collection hasn't been mapped yet? It is probably
>>> worth checking before blindly assigning a NULL pointer, which would
>>> corrupt the state set by another ITS.
>>
>> OK, I can add an "if (!itte->collection) return;" for sanity. But this
>> is an internal function, intended to promote a new mapping to the struct
>> vgic_irqs, so both callers explicitly check for a mapped collection just
>> before calling this function. So This check would be a bit redundant.
>> Shall I instead add a comment documenting the requirement of the
>> collection already being mapped?
> 
> This is not the way I read it. In vgic_its_cmd_handle_mapi:
> 
> 	if (!collection) {
> 		collection = new_coll;
> 		vgic_its_init_collection(its, collection, coll_id);
> 	}
> 
> 	itte->collection = collection;
> 	itte->lpi = lpi_nr;
> 	itte->irq = vgic_add_lpi(kvm, lpi_nr);
> 	update_affinity_itte(kvm, itte);
> 
> If new_coll has never been mapped, you end up with the exact situation I
> described, and I don't see how you make it work without checking for
> target_addr being a valid vcpu index.
> 
>>
>>>> +
>>>> +	spin_lock(&itte->irq->irq_lock);
>>>> +	itte->irq->target_vcpu = vcpu;
>>>> +	spin_unlock(&itte->irq->irq_lock);
>>>> +}
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>> +
>>>> +/*
>>>> + * The MAPTI and MAPI commands map LPIs to ITTEs.
>>>> + * Must be called with its_lock mutex held.
>>>> + */
>>>> +static int vgic_its_cmd_handle_mapi(struct kvm *kvm, struct vgic_its *its,
>>>> +				    u64 *its_cmd, u8 subcmd)
>>>> +{
>>>> +	u32 device_id = its_cmd_get_deviceid(its_cmd);
>>>> +	u32 event_id = its_cmd_get_id(its_cmd);
>>>> +	u32 coll_id = its_cmd_get_collection(its_cmd);
>>>> +	struct its_itte *itte;
>>>> +	struct its_device *device;
>>>> +	struct its_collection *collection, *new_coll = NULL;
>>>> +	int lpi_nr;
>>>> +
>>>> +	device = find_its_device(its, device_id);
>>>> +	if (!device)
>>>> +		return E_ITS_MAPTI_UNMAPPED_DEVICE;
>>>> +
>>>> +	collection = find_collection(its, coll_id);
>>>
>>> Don't you need to check the range of the collection ID, and whether it
>>> would fit in the collection table?
>>
>> We support the full range of 16 bits for the collection ID, and we can't
>> get more than 16 bits out of this field, so it always fits.
>> Does that sound right?
> 
> Let's try it. Collections are "stored" in the collection table, which
> can contain at most TableSize/EntrySize entries, which is determined by
> how many pages the guest has allocated. Eventually, we'll be able to
> migrate the guest, and will need to write this into the allocated
> memory.
> 
> To be able to map all 2^16 collections, at 8 bytes per entry, you'd need
> 512kB. Linux will only allocate 64kB for example.
> 
> So to answer your question: No, this doesn't sound right at all.

BTW: your MAPD implementation suffers from the exact same issue, only
complicated by the Indirect handling (you need to verify that the
level-1 page has a valid pointer to a level-2 table).

Thanks,

	M.
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