[PATCH 5/6] arm/arm64: vgic-new: Implement VGICv3 CPU interface access

Vijay Kilari vijay.kilari at gmail.com
Fri Sep 16 23:28:48 PDT 2016


On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 10:37 PM, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com> wrote:
> On 16/09/16 17:57, Vijay Kilari wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 8:06 PM, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com> wrote:
>>> On 16/09/16 13:20, vijay.kilari at gmail.com wrote:
>>>> From: Vijaya Kumar K <Vijaya.Kumar at cavium.com>
>>>>
>>>> VGICv3 CPU interface registers are accessed using
>>>> KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_CPU_SYSREGS ioctl. These registers are accessed
>>>> as 64-bit. The cpu MPIDR value is passed along with register id.
>>>> is used to identify the cpu for registers access.
>>>>
>>>> The version of VGIC v3 specification is define here
>>>> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2016-July/445611.html
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Pavel Fedin <p.fedin at samsung.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Vijaya Kumar K <Vijaya.Kumar at cavium.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>  arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h   |   3 +
>>>>  arch/arm64/kvm/Makefile             |   1 +
>>>>  include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v3.h  |  30 ++++
>>>>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-kvm-device.c |  27 ++++
>>>>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c    |  18 +++
>>>>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-sys-reg-v3.c | 296 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.h            |  10 ++
>>>>  7 files changed, 385 insertions(+)
>
> [...]
>
>>>> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-sys-reg-v3.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-sys-reg-v3.c
>>>> new file mode 100644
>>>> index 0000000..8e4f403
>>>> --- /dev/null
>>>> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-sys-reg-v3.c
>>>> @@ -0,0 +1,296 @@
>>>> +#include <linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v3.h>
>>>> +#include <linux/kvm.h>
>>>> +#include <linux/kvm_host.h>
>>>> +#include <kvm/iodev.h>
>>>> +#include <kvm/arm_vgic.h>
>>>> +#include <asm/kvm_emulate.h>
>>>> +#include <asm/kvm_arm.h>
>>>> +#include <asm/kvm_mmu.h>
>>>> +
>>>> +#include "vgic.h"
>>>> +#include "vgic-mmio.h"
>>>> +#include "sys_regs.h"
>>>> +
>>>> +static bool access_gic_ctlr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct sys_reg_params *p,
>>>> +                         const struct sys_reg_desc *r)
>>>> +{
>>>> +     struct vgic_vmcr vmcr;
>>>> +     u64 val;
>>>> +     u32 ich_vtr;
>>>> +
>>>> +     vgic_get_vmcr(vcpu, &vmcr);
>>>> +     if (p->is_write) {
>>>> +             val = p->regval;
>>>> +             vmcr.ctlr &= ~(ICH_VMCR_CBPR_MASK | ICH_VMCR_EOIM_MASK);
>>>> +             vmcr.ctlr |= ((val & ICC_CTLR_EL1_CBPR_MASK) >>
>>>> +                           ICC_CTLR_EL1_CBPR_SHIFT) << ICH_VMCR_CBPR_SHIFT;
>>>> +             vmcr.ctlr |= ((val & ICC_CTLR_EL1_EOImode_MASK) >>
>>>> +                          ICC_CTLR_EL1_EOImode_SHIFT) << ICH_VMCR_EOIM_SHIFT;
>>>> +             vgic_set_vmcr(vcpu, &vmcr);
>>>
>>> You've ignored my comments again: "What if userspace writes something
>>> that is incompatible with the current configuration? Wrong number of ID
>>> bits, or number of priorities?"
>>
>> IMO, In case of incompatibility,
>> If ID bits and PRI bits are less than HW supported, it is ok.
>
> Yes. But you also need to track of what the guest has programmed in
> order to be able to migrate it back to its original configuration.

You mean the vgic has to track/store the ID and PRI bits that guest
has programmed
and return the same when guest reads back instead of
returning HW supported value for ICC_CTLR_EL1 reg access?.

>
>> If ID bits and PRI bits are greater than HW supported, then warn would be good
>> enough. Please suggest the behaviour that you think it should be.
>
> No, it is an error, plain and simple. You cannot run in this condition.
>
[...]
>
> Thanks,
>
>         M.
> --
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