[PATCH v5 0/7] Add support for FEAT_{LS64, LS64_V} and related tests
Yicong Yang
yangyicong at huawei.com
Mon Sep 1 01:08:04 PDT 2025
a gentle ping...
hi Marc and Oliver,
the discussion since v2 are mainly about the LS64 fault hanlding by kvm/hypervisor,
does this version a proper one to go ahead?
thanks.
On 2025/8/18 14:47, Yicong Yang wrote:
> From: Yicong Yang <yangyicong at hisilicon.com>
>
> Armv8.7 introduces single-copy atomic 64-byte loads and stores
> instructions and its variants named under FEAT_{LS64, LS64_V}.
> Add support for Armv8.7 FEAT_{LS64, LS64_V}:
> - Add identifying and enabling in the cpufeature list
> - Expose the support of these features to userspace through HWCAP3
> and cpuinfo
> - Add related hwcap test
> - Handle the trap of unsupported memory (normal/uncacheable) access in a VM
>
> A real scenario for this feature is that the userspace driver can make use of
> this to implement direct WQE (workqueue entry) - a mechanism to fill WQE
> directly into the hardware.
>
> Picked Marc's 2 patches form [1] for handling the LS64 trap in a VM on emulated
> MMIO and the introduce of KVM_EXIT_ARM_LDST64B.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20240815125959.2097734-1-maz@kernel.org/
>
> Tested with updated hwcap test:
> [root at localhost tmp]# dmesg | grep "All CPU(s) started"
> [ 14.789859] CPU: All CPU(s) started at EL2
> [root at localhost tmp]# ./hwcap
> # LS64 present
> ok 217 cpuinfo_match_LS64
> ok 218 sigill_LS64
> ok 219 # SKIP sigbus_LS64_V
> # LS64_V present
> ok 220 cpuinfo_match_LS64_V
> ok 221 sigill_LS64_V
> ok 222 # SKIP sigbus_LS64_V
> # 115 skipped test(s) detected. Consider enabling relevant config options to improve coverage.
> # Totals: pass:107 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:115 error:0
>
> root at localhost:/mnt# dmesg | grep "All CPU(s) started"
> [ 0.281152] CPU: All CPU(s) started at EL1
> root at localhost:/mnt# ./hwcap
> # LS64 present
> ok 217 cpuinfo_match_LS64
> ok 218 sigill_LS64
> ok 219 # SKIP sigbus_LS64
> # LS64_V present
> ok 220 cpuinfo_match_LS64_V
> ok 221 sigill_LS64_V
> ok 222 # SKIP sigbus_LS64_V
> # 115 skipped test(s) detected. Consider enabling relevant config options to improve coverage.
> # Totals: pass:107 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:115 error:0
>
> Change since v4:
> - Rebase on v6.17-rc2 and fix the conflicts
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20250715081356.12442-1-yangyicong@huawei.com/
>
> Change since v3:
> - Inject DABT fault for LS64 fault on unsupported memory but with valid memslot
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20250626080906.64230-1-yangyicong@huawei.com/
>
> Change since v2:
> - Handle the LS64 fault to userspace and allow userspace to inject LS64 fault
> - Reorder the patches to make KVM handling prior to feature support
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20250331094320.35226-1-yangyicong@huawei.com/
>
> Change since v1:
> - Drop the support for LS64_ACCDATA
> - handle the DABT of unsupported memory type after checking the memory attributes
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20241202135504.14252-1-yangyicong@huawei.com/
>
> Marc Zyngier (2):
> KVM: arm64: Add exit to userspace on {LD,ST}64B* outside of memslots
> KVM: arm64: Add documentation for KVM_EXIT_ARM_LDST64B
>
> Yicong Yang (5):
> KVM: arm64: Handle DABT caused by LS64* instructions on unsupported
> memory
> arm64: Provide basic EL2 setup for FEAT_{LS64, LS64_V} usage at EL0/1
> arm64: Add support for FEAT_{LS64, LS64_V}
> KVM: arm64: Enable FEAT_{LS64, LS64_V} in the supported guest
> kselftest/arm64: Add HWCAP test for FEAT_{LS64, LS64_V}
>
> Documentation/arch/arm64/booting.rst | 12 +++
> Documentation/arch/arm64/elf_hwcaps.rst | 6 ++
> Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 43 +++++++++--
> arch/arm64/include/asm/el2_setup.h | 12 ++-
> arch/arm64/include/asm/esr.h | 8 ++
> arch/arm64/include/asm/hwcap.h | 2 +
> arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h | 7 ++
> arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/hwcap.h | 2 +
> arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 51 +++++++++++++
> arch/arm64/kernel/cpuinfo.c | 2 +
> arch/arm64/kvm/inject_fault.c | 22 ++++++
> arch/arm64/kvm/mmio.c | 27 ++++++-
> arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 14 +++-
> arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps | 2 +
> include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 3 +-
> tools/testing/selftests/arm64/abi/hwcap.c | 90 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> 16 files changed, 292 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
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