[PATCH v2 3/7] KVM: arm: vgic-new: improve compatibility with 32-bit

Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Tue Sep 6 06:22:19 PDT 2016


On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 01:41:37PM +0100, Vladimir Murzin wrote:
> Hi Christoffer,
> 
> On 05/09/16 12:29, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> > Hi Vladimir,
> > 
> > I think commit title is too vague, can you be more specific?
> > 
> 
> KVM: arm: vgic-new: make extract_bytes to always work on 64-bit data
> 
> is it better?

I would suggest:

KVM: arm: vgic: Support 64-bit data manipulation on 32-bit host systems

> 
> > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 11:46:54AM +0100, Vladimir Murzin wrote:
> >> We have couple of 64-bit register defined in GICv3 architecture, so
> > 
> > 'a couple',  'registers' (plural)
> > 
> >> "unsigned long" kind of accessors wouldn't work for 32-bit. However,
> > 
> > 'wouldn't work for 32-bit' is kind of generic as well.  Perhaps you mean
> > that unsigned long accesses to these registers will only access a single
> > 32-bit work of that register.
> > 
> >> these registers can't be access as 64-bit in a one go if we run 32-bit
> > 
> > 'accessed', 's/in one go/with a single instruction/' ?
> > 
> > 'a 32-bit host'
> > 
> >> host simply because KVM doesn't support multiple load/store on MMIO
> > 
> > by 'multiple load/store' you mean the 'load/store multiple' instructions
> > specifically, right?  Not a sequence of multiple loads and stores.  I
> > think you should be more specific here as well, for example, I think
> > ldrd and strd are problematic as well.
> > 
> >> space.
> >>
> >> It means that 32-bit guest access these registers in 32-bit chunks, so
> > 
> > 'a 32-bit guest', 'accesses'
> > 
> 
> all suggestions you've made above are true. I'll rework commit message
> to be more precise.
> 

Thanks!

> >> the only thing we need to do is to ensure that extract_bytes() always
> >> takes 64-bit data.
> >>
> >> Since we are here fix couple of other width related issues by using
> >> ULL variants over UL.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin at arm.com>
> >> ---
> >>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c |    6 +++---
> >>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.h    |    2 +-
> >>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c
> >> index ff668e0..cc20b60 100644
> >> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c
> >> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c
> >> @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
> >>  #include "vgic-mmio.h"
> >>  
> >>  /* extract @num bytes at @offset bytes offset in data */
> >> -unsigned long extract_bytes(unsigned long data, unsigned int offset,
> >> +unsigned long extract_bytes(u64 data, unsigned int offset,
> >>  			    unsigned int num)
> >>  {
> >>  	return (data >> (offset * 8)) & GENMASK_ULL(num * 8 - 1, 0);
> >> @@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ static unsigned long vgic_mmio_read_v3r_typer(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> >>  	int target_vcpu_id = vcpu->vcpu_id;
> >>  	u64 value;
> >>  
> >> -	value = (mpidr & GENMASK(23, 0)) << 32;
> >> +	value = (mpidr & GENMASK_ULL(23, 0)) << 32;
> > 
> > why does this make a difference when mpidr is an unsigned long?
> 
> because we access a little bit further than unsigned long can accommodate
> 
>   CC      arch/arm/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.o
> arch/arm/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c: In function
> 'vgic_mmio_read_v3r_typer':
> arch/arm/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c:184:35: warning:
> left shift count >= width of type [-Wshift-count-overflow]
>   value = (mpidr & GENMASK(23, 0)) << 32;
>                                    ^
> 
> I can include this warning in commit message or maybe you want a
> separate patch?
> 
My point was that the code doesn't really make sense when compiled on a
32-bit platform without also modifing the type for the mpidr variable.
Am I missing something?

Thanks,
-Christoffer



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