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From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
	Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>, Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] KVM: s390: wire up seb feature
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 12:29:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <23083bfd-7fd9-0b03-53ba-fa5f4d46a6b6@de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0a8dad23-0d88-cb10-d943-ac9ee265df7f@de.ibm.com>



On 01/17/2018 12:28 PM, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> 
> 
> On 01/17/2018 12:22 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>> while this is kvm code, my current plan is to submit the "final"
>>> version after review and probably some fixes/renames via Martin
>>> together with the other patches.  Are you ok with that? Right now it
>>> seems that the CAP number is still fine.
>> Sure, though there will be a capability introduced by PPC for similar
>> purposes, so check for conflicts.
>>
>> On 17/01/2018 12:18, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>>> diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
>>> index 2c93cbb..0c18f73 100644
>>> --- a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
>>> +++ b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
>>> @@ -421,6 +421,9 @@ int kvm_vm_ioctl_check_extension(struct kvm *kvm, long ext)
>>>  	case KVM_CAP_S390_GS:
>>>  		r = test_facility(133);
>>>  		break;
>>> +	case KVM_CAP_S390_SEB:
>>> +		r = test_facility(82);
>>> +		break;
>>>  	default:
>>>  		r = 0;
>>
>> Can you add a generic "test facility" capability and ioctl?
> 
> The problem is not that I announce the facility, I in fact announce that the
> programmatic interface is available (the sebc sync reg and the usage of that field).
> (So the CAP is part of this patch to have both in lockstep)
> A non-existing facility will then just disable that programmatic interface.

To put it differently. CAP_S390_GS and CAP_S390_SEB could also just
do a 

return 1;

and the QEMU has to check both (which it probably does anyway)

Christian

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-17 11:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-17  9:48 [PATCH 0/6] s390: improve speculative execution handling Martin Schwidefsky
2018-01-17  9:48 ` [PATCH 1/6] s390/alternative: use a copy of the facility bit mask Martin Schwidefsky
2018-01-17 13:54   ` David Hildenbrand
2018-01-17 14:24   ` Cornelia Huck
2018-01-17  9:48 ` [PATCH 2/6] s390: implement nospec_[load|ptr] Martin Schwidefsky
2018-01-17 12:41   ` Jiri Kosina
2018-01-17 14:52     ` Jon Masters
2018-01-17 13:58   ` David Hildenbrand
2018-01-17 14:04     ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-01-17  9:48 ` [PATCH 3/6] s390: add options to change branch prediction behaviour for the kernel Martin Schwidefsky
2018-01-18  9:52   ` Cornelia Huck
2018-01-19  4:53   ` QingFeng Hao
2018-01-17  9:48 ` [PATCH 4/6] s390: add system call to run tasks with modified branch prediction Martin Schwidefsky
2018-01-17 10:03   ` Florian Weimer
2018-01-17 10:05     ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-01-17 11:14     ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-01-17 11:50       ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-01-17 11:55       ` Martin Schwidefsky
2018-01-17 13:25         ` Heiko Carstens
2018-01-17  9:48 ` [PATCH 5/6] KVM: s390: wire up seb feature Martin Schwidefsky
2018-01-17 11:18   ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-01-17 11:22     ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-01-17 11:28       ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-01-17 11:29         ` Christian Borntraeger [this message]
2018-01-17 11:32           ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-01-17 11:33   ` David Hildenbrand
2018-01-17 11:39     ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-01-17 13:44   ` [PATCH v2] KVM: s390: wire up bpb feature Christian Borntraeger
2018-01-17 13:51     ` David Hildenbrand
2018-01-17 21:43       ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-01-18  6:27         ` Martin Schwidefsky
2018-01-18  9:59     ` Cornelia Huck
2018-01-18 10:09       ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-01-17  9:48 ` [PATCH 6/6] s390: scrub registers on kernel entry and KVM exit Martin Schwidefsky
2018-01-19  6:29   ` QingFeng Hao
2018-01-19  7:57     ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-01-19  8:27       ` QingFeng Hao
2018-01-17 12:00 ` [PATCH 0/6] s390: improve speculative execution handling Cornelia Huck
2018-01-17 12:05   ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-01-17 13:29 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman

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