[RFC PATCH v3 03/29] KVM: arm64: Introduce struct id_reg_info

Eric Auger eauger at redhat.com
Thu Dec 2 04:51:24 PST 2021



On 11/25/21 7:40 AM, Reiji Watanabe wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 1:07 PM Eric Auger <eauger at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Reiji,
>>
>> On 11/17/21 7:43 AM, Reiji Watanabe wrote:
>>> This patch lays the groundwork to make ID registers writable.
>>>
>>> Introduce struct id_reg_info for an ID register to manage the
>>> register specific control of its value for the guest, and provide set
>>> of functions commonly used for ID registers to make them writable.
>>>
>>> The id_reg_info is used to do register specific initialization,
>>> validation of the ID register and etc.  Not all ID registers must
>>> have the id_reg_info. ID registers that don't have the id_reg_info
>>> are handled in a common way that is applied to all ID registers.
>>>
>>> At present, changing an ID register from userspace is allowed only
>>> if the ID register has the id_reg_info, but that will be changed
>>> by the following patches.
>>>
>>> No ID register has the structure yet and the following patches
>>> will add the id_reg_info for some ID registers.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Reiji Watanabe <reijiw at google.com>
>>> ---
>>>  arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h |   1 +
>>>  arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c       | 226 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>>>  2 files changed, 218 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h
>>> index 16b3f1a1d468..597609f26331 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h
>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h
>>> @@ -1197,6 +1197,7 @@
>>>  #define ICH_VTR_TDS_MASK     (1 << ICH_VTR_TDS_SHIFT)
>>>
>>>  #define ARM64_FEATURE_FIELD_BITS     4
>>> +#define ARM64_FEATURE_FIELD_MASK     ((1ull << ARM64_FEATURE_FIELD_BITS) - 1)
>>>
>>>  /* Create a mask for the feature bits of the specified feature. */
>>>  #define ARM64_FEATURE_MASK(x)        (GENMASK_ULL(x##_SHIFT + ARM64_FEATURE_FIELD_BITS - 1, x##_SHIFT))
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
>>> index 5608d3410660..1552cd5581b7 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
>>> @@ -265,6 +265,181 @@ static bool trap_raz_wi(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>>>               return read_zero(vcpu, p);
>>>  }
>>>
>>> +/*
>>> + * A value for FCT_LOWER_SAFE must be zero and changing that will affect
>>> + * ftr_check_types of id_reg_info.
>>> + */
>>> +enum feature_check_type {
>>> +     FCT_LOWER_SAFE = 0,
>>> +     FCT_HIGHER_SAFE,
>>> +     FCT_HIGHER_OR_ZERO_SAFE,
>>> +     FCT_EXACT,
>>> +     FCT_EXACT_OR_ZERO_SAFE,
>>> +     FCT_IGNORE,     /* Don't check (any value is fine) */
>>> +};
>>> +
>>> +static int arm64_check_feature_one(enum feature_check_type type, int val,
>>> +                                int limit)
>>> +{
>>> +     bool is_safe = false;
>>> +
>>> +     if (val == limit)
>>> +             return 0;
>>> +
>>> +     switch (type) {
>>> +     case FCT_LOWER_SAFE:
>>> +             is_safe = (val <= limit);
>>> +             break;
>>> +     case FCT_HIGHER_OR_ZERO_SAFE:
>>> +             if (val == 0) {
>>> +                     is_safe = true;
>>> +                     break;
>>> +             }
>>> +             fallthrough;
>>> +     case FCT_HIGHER_SAFE:
>>> +             is_safe = (val >= limit);
>>> +             break;
>>> +     case FCT_EXACT:
>>> +             break;
>>> +     case FCT_EXACT_OR_ZERO_SAFE:
>>> +             is_safe = (val == 0);
>>> +             break;
>>> +     case FCT_IGNORE:
>>> +             is_safe = true;
>>> +             break;
>>> +     default:
>>> +             WARN_ONCE(1, "Unexpected feature_check_type (%d)\n", type);
>>> +             break;
>>> +     }
>>> +
>>> +     return is_safe ? 0 : -1;
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +#define      FCT_TYPE_MASK           0x7
>>> +#define      FCT_TYPE_SHIFT          1
>>> +#define      FCT_SIGN_MASK           0x1
>>> +#define      FCT_SIGN_SHIFT          0
>>> +#define      FCT_TYPE(val)   ((val >> FCT_TYPE_SHIFT) & FCT_TYPE_MASK)
>>> +#define      FCT_SIGN(val)   ((val >> FCT_SIGN_SHIFT) & FCT_SIGN_MASK)
>>> +
>>> +#define      MAKE_FCT(shift, type, sign)                             \
>>> +     ((u64)((((type) & FCT_TYPE_MASK) << FCT_TYPE_SHIFT) |   \
>>> +            (((sign) & FCT_SIGN_MASK) << FCT_SIGN_SHIFT)) << (shift))
>>> +
>>> +/* For signed field */
>>> +#define      S_FCT(shift, type)      MAKE_FCT(shift, type, 1)
>>> +/* For unigned field */
>>> +#define      U_FCT(shift, type)      MAKE_FCT(shift, type, 0)
>>> +
>>> +/*
>>> + * @val and @lim are both a value of the ID register. The function checks
>>> + * if all features indicated in @val can be supported for guests on the host,
>>> + * which supports features indicated in @lim. @check_types indicates how
>>> + * features in the ID register needs to be checked.
>>> + * See comments for id_reg_info's ftr_check_types field for more detail.
>>> + */
>>> +static int arm64_check_features(u64 check_types, u64 val, u64 lim)
>>> +{
>>> +     int i;
>>> +
>>> +     for (i = 0; i < 64; i += ARM64_FEATURE_FIELD_BITS) {
>>> +             u8 ftr_check = (check_types >> i) & ARM64_FEATURE_FIELD_MASK;
>>> +             bool is_sign = FCT_SIGN(ftr_check);
>>> +             enum feature_check_type fctype = FCT_TYPE(ftr_check);
>>> +             int fval, flim, ret;
>>> +
>>> +             fval = cpuid_feature_extract_field(val, i, is_sign);
>>> +             flim = cpuid_feature_extract_field(lim, i, is_sign);
>>> +
>>> +             ret = arm64_check_feature_one(fctype, fval, flim);
>>> +             if (ret)
>>> +                     return -E2BIG;
>> nit: -EINVAL may be better because depending on the check type this may
>> not mean too big.
> 
> Yes, that is correct.
> 
> This error case means that userspace tried to configure features
> or a higher level of features that were not supported on the host.
> In that sense, I chose -E2BIG.
> 
> I wanted to use an error code specific to this particular case, which
> I think makes debugging userspace issue easier when KVM_SET_ONE_REG
> fails, and I couldn't find other error codes that fit this case better.
> So, I'm trying to avoid using -EINVAL, which is used for other failure
> cases.
> 
> If you have any other suggested error code for this,
> that would be very helpful:)

OK faire enought, that's a nit anyway

Eric
> 
> Thanks,
> Reiji
> 




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