From: Auger Eric <eric.auger@redhat.com> To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Cc: "prasun.kapoor" <Prasun.Kapoor@cavium.com>, kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>, Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>, "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>, "Kumar, Vijaya" <Vijaya.Kumar@cavium.com>, Vijaya Kumar K <vijayak@caviumnetworks.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, "kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu" <kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu>, arm-mail-list <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>, eric.auger.pro@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 01/19] KVM: arm/arm64: Add vITS save/restore API documentation Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 16:25:43 +0100 [thread overview] Message-ID: <23365078-ef4e-fa69-40d2-7177ca603862@redhat.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA_VqJQ-BFQPpdnK07x6B=cN-HcPY7pBr7=J5UGXm4iSnQ@mail.gmail.com> Hi Peter, On 13/03/2017 18:38, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 13 March 2017 at 15:42, Auger Eric <eric.auger@redhat.com> wrote: >> On 13/03/2017 14:08, Peter Maydell wrote: >>> These CTE/ITE/DTE formats don't seem to have any kind of >>> "escape hatch" for allowing backwards compatible extensions >>> to the format. Do we need one? (I think that's particularly >>> likely to be useful where there's an ITS feature we don't >>> currently implement but might perhaps want to in future, >>> like GICv4 virtual interrupt injection.) >> >> Maybe we could rely on the ITS registers (that must be restored before >> the tables) to get any info about the format used to encode the table >> entries. We have GITS_CTLR[1] that can help discriminate between GICv3/ >> GICv4. GITS_BASER.Entry_size can be 8B for current implementation and >> 16B for an enhanced implementation. CTE[52:62] can be used to encode a >> format version. > > Using the registers seems like a good idea, though I > don't know about the specific fields. The most obvious > place to keep something like this would be GITS_IIDR.Revision > I suppose. Using the "size of the table entry" fields would > work too. > > If we have to make all these tables double the size if > we move to 16b/entry in future, is that a significant > increase in memory used, or a don't-really-care increase? Sorry for the delay, I tried to have a better understanding of the GICv4 new features before answering. I don't think the device table nor the collection table are impacted by GICv4. To me only the ITT is impacted and ITE would certainly become 2*8Bytes since there are new fields to encode (vPE, doorbell INTID). We would also need to save/restore the vPE table. ITT size for 1 device is nb_supported_eventids_for_the_device * 8 or 16 Bytes I would tempt to think this falls under the category of don't-really-care. > > I guess what we should do is: > * identify obviously imminently upcoming features (like > GICv4 support, wider physaddrs) and make sure the format > supports them > [let's say, anything we think we're definitely likely > to be adding in the next 12 months] - support of GICv4 on guest side. I guess this relates to nested virtualization use case. - extension of phys addrs, Marc? is there any requirement/plan? > * decide on our 'escape hatch' plan for anything > more vague OK I will formalize this. My understanding is if we need to update the ITE format, we will directly encode all the fields and update the ITE size to a 2x 8B entry. This change is easily recognizable through GITS_TYPER register. > * test that we do correctly fail migration for an > incoming ITS state that asks for an unsupported Revision OK I will do that > * document how the 'escape hatch' is intended to work > so we don't then invent a different approach in the > future :-) OK Thanks Eric > > thanks > -- PMM >
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From: eric.auger@redhat.com (Auger Eric) To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: [PATCH v3 01/19] KVM: arm/arm64: Add vITS save/restore API documentation Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 16:25:43 +0100 [thread overview] Message-ID: <23365078-ef4e-fa69-40d2-7177ca603862@redhat.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA_VqJQ-BFQPpdnK07x6B=cN-HcPY7pBr7=J5UGXm4iSnQ@mail.gmail.com> Hi Peter, On 13/03/2017 18:38, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 13 March 2017 at 15:42, Auger Eric <eric.auger@redhat.com> wrote: >> On 13/03/2017 14:08, Peter Maydell wrote: >>> These CTE/ITE/DTE formats don't seem to have any kind of >>> "escape hatch" for allowing backwards compatible extensions >>> to the format. Do we need one? (I think that's particularly >>> likely to be useful where there's an ITS feature we don't >>> currently implement but might perhaps want to in future, >>> like GICv4 virtual interrupt injection.) >> >> Maybe we could rely on the ITS registers (that must be restored before >> the tables) to get any info about the format used to encode the table >> entries. We have GITS_CTLR[1] that can help discriminate between GICv3/ >> GICv4. GITS_BASER.Entry_size can be 8B for current implementation and >> 16B for an enhanced implementation. CTE[52:62] can be used to encode a >> format version. > > Using the registers seems like a good idea, though I > don't know about the specific fields. The most obvious > place to keep something like this would be GITS_IIDR.Revision > I suppose. Using the "size of the table entry" fields would > work too. > > If we have to make all these tables double the size if > we move to 16b/entry in future, is that a significant > increase in memory used, or a don't-really-care increase? Sorry for the delay, I tried to have a better understanding of the GICv4 new features before answering. I don't think the device table nor the collection table are impacted by GICv4. To me only the ITT is impacted and ITE would certainly become 2*8Bytes since there are new fields to encode (vPE, doorbell INTID). We would also need to save/restore the vPE table. ITT size for 1 device is nb_supported_eventids_for_the_device * 8 or 16 Bytes I would tempt to think this falls under the category of don't-really-care. > > I guess what we should do is: > * identify obviously imminently upcoming features (like > GICv4 support, wider physaddrs) and make sure the format > supports them > [let's say, anything we think we're definitely likely > to be adding in the next 12 months] - support of GICv4 on guest side. I guess this relates to nested virtualization use case. - extension of phys addrs, Marc? is there any requirement/plan? > * decide on our 'escape hatch' plan for anything > more vague OK I will formalize this. My understanding is if we need to update the ITE format, we will directly encode all the fields and update the ITE size to a 2x 8B entry. This change is easily recognizable through GITS_TYPER register. > * test that we do correctly fail migration for an > incoming ITS state that asks for an unsupported Revision OK I will do that > * document how the 'escape hatch' is intended to work > so we don't then invent a different approach in the > future :-) OK Thanks Eric > > thanks > -- PMM >
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-16 15:25 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 132+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2017-03-06 11:34 [PATCH v3 00/19] vITS save/restore Eric Auger 2017-03-06 11:34 ` Eric Auger 2017-03-06 11:34 ` [PATCH v3 01/19] KVM: arm/arm64: Add vITS save/restore API documentation Eric Auger 2017-03-06 11:34 ` Eric Auger 2017-03-13 13:08 ` Peter Maydell 2017-03-13 13:08 ` Peter Maydell 2017-03-13 14:42 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-13 14:42 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-13 17:38 ` Peter Maydell 2017-03-13 17:38 ` Peter Maydell 2017-03-16 15:25 ` Auger Eric [this message] 2017-03-16 15:25 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-06 11:34 ` [PATCH v3 02/19] KVM: arm/arm64: rename itte into ite Eric Auger 2017-03-06 11:34 ` Eric Auger 2017-03-06 11:34 ` [PATCH v3 03/19] arm/arm64: vgic: turn vgic_find_mmio_region into public Eric Auger 2017-03-06 11:34 ` Eric Auger 2017-03-17 14:38 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-17 14:38 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-21 17:38 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-21 17:38 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-06 11:34 ` [PATCH v3 04/19] KVM: arm64: ITS: KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_ITS_REGS group Eric Auger 2017-03-06 11:34 ` Eric Auger 2017-03-20 18:12 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-20 18:12 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-06 11:34 ` [PATCH v3 05/19] KVM: arm64: ITS: Implement vgic_its_has_attr_regs and attr_regs_access Eric Auger 2017-03-06 11:34 ` Eric Auger 2017-03-20 18:13 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-20 18:13 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-22 14:15 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-22 14:15 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-06 11:34 ` [PATCH v3 06/19] KVM: arm64: ITS: Implement vgic_mmio_uaccess_write_its_creadr Eric Auger 2017-03-06 11:34 ` Eric Auger 2017-03-20 18:14 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-20 18:14 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-24 10:38 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-24 10:38 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-06 11:34 ` [PATCH v3 07/19] KVM: arm64: ITS: Report the ITE size in GITS_TYPER Eric Auger 2017-03-06 11:34 ` Eric Auger 2017-03-17 14:39 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-17 14:39 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-21 17:38 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-21 17:38 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-06 11:34 ` [PATCH v3 08/19] KVM: arm64: ITS: Interpret MAPD Size field and check related errors Eric Auger 2017-03-06 11:34 ` Eric Auger 2017-03-17 15:03 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-17 15:03 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-21 17:40 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-21 17:40 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-21 17:57 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-21 17:57 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-06 11:34 ` [PATCH v3 09/19] KVM: arm64: ITS: Interpret MAPD ITT_addr field Eric Auger 2017-03-06 11:34 ` Eric Auger 2017-03-17 15:19 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-17 15:19 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-21 17:41 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-21 17:41 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-06 11:34 ` [PATCH v3 10/19] KVM: arm64: ITS: Check the device id matches TYPER DEVBITS range Eric Auger 2017-03-06 11:34 ` Eric Auger 2017-03-17 15:41 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-17 15:41 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-21 17:42 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-21 17:42 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-06 11:34 ` [PATCH v3 11/19] KVM: arm64: ITS: KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_ITS_TABLES group Eric Auger 2017-03-06 11:34 ` Eric Auger 2017-03-20 18:14 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-20 18:14 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-22 14:29 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-22 14:29 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-06 11:34 ` [PATCH v3 12/19] KVM: arm64: ITS: vgic_its_alloc_ite/device Eric Auger 2017-03-06 11:34 ` Eric Auger 2017-03-17 17:01 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-17 17:01 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-21 17:42 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-21 17:42 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-06 11:34 ` [PATCH v3 13/19] KVM: arm64: ITS: Sort the device and ITE lists Eric Auger 2017-03-06 11:34 ` Eric Auger 2017-03-20 18:14 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-20 18:14 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-06 11:34 ` [PATCH v3 14/19] KVM: arm64: ITS: Add infrastructure for table lookup Eric Auger 2017-03-06 11:34 ` Eric Auger 2017-03-21 18:12 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-21 18:12 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-22 14:40 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-22 14:40 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-06 11:34 ` [PATCH v3 15/19] KVM: arm64: ITS: Collection table save/restore Eric Auger 2017-03-06 11:34 ` Eric Auger 2017-03-21 18:13 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-21 18:13 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-22 14:12 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-22 14:12 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-06 11:34 ` [PATCH v3 16/19] KVM: arm64: ITS: vgic_its_check_id returns the entry's GPA Eric Auger 2017-03-06 11:34 ` Eric Auger 2017-03-21 18:12 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-21 18:12 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-22 14:11 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-22 14:11 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-22 14:22 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-22 14:22 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-06 11:34 ` [PATCH v3 17/19] KVM: arm64: ITS: ITT flush and restore Eric Auger 2017-03-06 11:34 ` Eric Auger 2017-03-21 18:13 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-21 18:13 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-22 14:17 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-22 14:17 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-06 11:34 ` [PATCH v3 18/19] KVM: arm64: ITS: Device table save/restore Eric Auger 2017-03-06 11:34 ` Eric Auger 2017-03-22 14:39 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-22 14:39 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-24 10:38 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-24 10:38 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-24 10:45 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-24 10:45 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-24 11:12 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-24 11:12 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-24 11:27 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-24 11:27 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-24 11:14 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-24 11:14 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-24 11:28 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-24 11:28 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-06 11:34 ` [PATCH v3 19/19] KVM: arm64: ITS: Pending " Eric Auger 2017-03-06 11:34 ` Eric Auger 2017-03-20 18:21 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-20 18:21 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-22 15:12 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-22 15:12 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-22 16:22 ` André Przywara 2017-03-22 16:22 ` André Przywara 2017-03-22 14:39 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-22 14:39 ` Andre Przywara 2017-03-24 11:20 ` Auger Eric 2017-03-24 11:20 ` Auger Eric
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