From: "Cédric Le Goater" <clg@kaod.org>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/19] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: add a VC_BASE control to the XIVE native device
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 16:36:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <04d4acf7-978f-fb40-a64b-b6df3ecc8a5e@kaod.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190204044933.GC1927@umbus.fritz.box>
On 2/4/19 5:49 AM, David Gibson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 05:56:26PM +0100, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
>> On 1/22/19 6:14 AM, Paul Mackerras wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 07:43:20PM +0100, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
>>>> The ESB MMIO region controls the interrupt sources of the guest. QEMU
>>>> will query an fd (GET_ESB_FD ioctl) and map this region at a specific
>>>> address for the guest to use. The guest will obtain this information
>>>> using the H_INT_GET_SOURCE_INFO hcall. To inform KVM of the address
>>>> setting used by QEMU, add a VC_BASE control to the KVM XIVE device
>>>
>>> This needs a little more explanation. I *think* the only way this
>>> gets used is that it gets returned to the guest by the new
>>> hypercalls. If that is indeed the case it would be useful to mention
>>> that in the patch description, because otherwise taking a value that
>>> userspace provides and which looks like it is an address, and not
>>> doing any validation on it, looks a bit scary.
>>
>> I think we have solved this problem in another email thread.
>>
>> The H_INT_GET_SOURCE_INFO hcall does not need to be implemented in KVM
>> as all the source information should already be available in QEMU. In
>> that case, there is no need to inform KVM of where the ESB pages are
>> mapped in the guest address space. So we don't need that extra control
>> on the KVM device. This is good news.
>
> Ah, good to hear. I thought this looked strange.
yes. I didn't know which path to choose between HV real mode, HV, QEMU.
It's clarified now.
But now, we have nested, and this is adding quite a bit of strangeness
to the hcall possibilities.
C.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-04 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 135+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-07 18:43 [PATCH 00/19] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: add XIVE native exploitation mode Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-07 18:43 ` [PATCH 01/19] powerpc/xive: export flags for the XIVE native exploitation mode hcalls Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-09 3:33 ` David Gibson
2019-01-09 13:08 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-01-09 13:38 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-07 18:43 ` [PATCH 02/19] powerpc/xive: add OPAL extensions for the XIVE native exploitation support Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-09 4:26 ` David Gibson
2019-01-07 18:43 ` [PATCH 03/19] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: check the IRQ controller type Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-09 4:27 ` David Gibson
2019-01-22 4:56 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-01-23 16:24 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-04 0:50 ` David Gibson
2019-02-04 10:16 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-07 18:43 ` [PATCH 04/19] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: export services for the XIVE native exploitation device Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-11 4:09 ` David Gibson
2019-01-07 18:43 ` [PATCH 05/19] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: add a new KVM device for the XIVE native exploitation mode Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-22 5:05 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-01-23 16:28 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-28 17:35 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-30 4:29 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-01-30 7:01 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-31 3:01 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-02-01 17:03 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-04 4:25 ` David Gibson
2019-02-04 11:19 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-05 5:26 ` David Gibson
2019-01-07 18:43 ` [PATCH 06/19] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: add a GET_ESB_FD control to the XIVE native device Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-22 5:09 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-01-23 16:48 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-04 4:45 ` David Gibson
2019-02-04 11:30 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-05 5:28 ` David Gibson
2019-02-05 12:55 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-06 1:23 ` David Gibson
2019-02-06 7:21 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-07 2:49 ` David Gibson
2019-02-07 9:03 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-08 5:15 ` David Gibson
2019-02-08 7:58 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-08 21:53 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-02-09 9:41 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-11 2:38 ` David Gibson
2019-02-11 6:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2019-02-12 22:07 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-07 18:43 ` [PATCH 07/19] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: add a GET_TIMA_FD control to " Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-07 18:43 ` [PATCH 08/19] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: add a VC_BASE control to the " Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-22 5:14 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-01-23 16:56 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-04 4:49 ` David Gibson
2019-02-04 15:36 ` Cédric Le Goater [this message]
2019-01-07 18:43 ` [PATCH 09/19] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: add a SET_SOURCE " Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-04 4:57 ` David Gibson
2019-02-04 19:07 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-05 5:35 ` David Gibson
2019-02-05 13:39 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-07 18:43 ` [PATCH 10/19] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: add a EISN attribute to kvmppc_xive_irq_state Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-07 18:43 ` [PATCH 11/19] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: add support for the XIVE native exploitation mode hcalls Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-22 5:23 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-01-23 6:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2019-01-23 8:48 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-23 10:26 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-01-23 10:48 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-23 21:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2019-01-07 18:43 ` [PATCH 12/19] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: record guest queue page address Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-04 5:15 ` David Gibson
2019-02-04 15:37 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-07 18:43 ` [PATCH 13/19] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: add a SYNC control for the XIVE native migration Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-04 5:17 ` David Gibson
2019-02-04 15:39 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-07 18:43 ` [PATCH 14/19] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: add a control to make the XIVE EQ pages dirty Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-04 5:18 ` David Gibson
2019-02-04 15:46 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-05 5:30 ` David Gibson
2019-01-07 18:43 ` [PATCH 15/19] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: add get/set accessors for the source configuration Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-04 5:21 ` David Gibson
2019-02-04 16:07 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-05 5:32 ` David Gibson
2019-02-05 13:03 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-06 1:23 ` David Gibson
2019-02-06 1:24 ` David Gibson
2019-02-06 7:07 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-07 2:48 ` David Gibson
2019-02-07 9:13 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-08 5:15 ` David Gibson
2019-02-14 16:50 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-07 18:43 ` [PATCH 16/19] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: add get/set accessors for the EQ configuration Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-04 5:24 ` David Gibson
2019-02-05 17:45 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-07 19:10 ` [PATCH 17/19] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: add get/set accessors for the VP XIVE state Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-07 19:10 ` [PATCH 18/19] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: add passthrough support Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-22 5:26 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-01-23 6:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2019-01-23 10:30 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-01-23 11:07 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-28 6:13 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-01-28 18:26 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-29 2:45 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-01-29 13:47 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-30 6:20 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-01-30 15:54 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-31 2:48 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-01-29 4:12 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-01-29 17:44 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-30 5:55 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-01-30 7:06 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-23 21:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2019-01-24 8:41 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-28 4:43 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-01-29 13:46 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-07 19:10 ` [PATCH 19/19] KVM: introduce a KVM_DELETE_DEVICE ioctl Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-22 5:42 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-01-23 18:39 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-23 21:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2019-02-04 5:26 ` [PATCH 17/19] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: add get/set accessors for the VP XIVE state David Gibson
2019-02-04 18:57 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-05 5:33 ` David Gibson
2019-02-05 11:58 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-06 1:19 ` David Gibson
2019-01-22 4:46 ` [PATCH 00/19] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: add XIVE native exploitation mode Paul Mackerras
2019-01-23 19:07 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-23 21:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2019-01-26 8:25 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-04 5:36 ` David Gibson
2019-02-05 11:31 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-05 22:13 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-02-06 1:18 ` David Gibson
2019-02-06 7:35 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-07 2:51 ` David Gibson
2019-02-07 8:31 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-02-08 5:07 ` David Gibson
2019-02-08 7:38 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-28 5:51 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-01-29 13:51 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-01-30 5:40 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-01-30 15:36 ` Cédric Le Goater
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