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From: "Cédric Le Goater" <clg@kaod.org>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/19] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: add a GET_ESB_FD control to the XIVE native device
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2019 10:41:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8c915ed7-5aa5-1276-6598-d5dcd115dd56@kaod.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190208215329.GA9529@blackberry>

On 2/8/19 10:53 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 08:58:14AM +0100, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
>> On 2/8/19 6:15 AM, David Gibson wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 10:03:15AM +0100, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
>>>> That's the plan I have in mind as suggested by Paul if I understood it well.
>>>> The mechanics are more complex than the patch zapping the PTEs from the VMA
>>>> but it's also safer.
>>>
>>> Well, yes, where "safer" means "has the possibility to be correct".
>>
>> Well, the only problem with the kernel approach is keeping a pointer on 
>> the VMA. If we could call find_vma(), it would be perfectly safe and much 
>> more simpler.
> 
> You seem to be assuming that the kernel can easily work out a single
> virtual address which will be the only place where a given set of
> interrupt pages are mapped.  But that is really not possible in the
> general case, because userspace could have mapped the fd at many
> different offsets in many different places.
> 
> QEMU doesn't do that; in QEMU, the mmaps are sufficiently limited that
> it can work out a single virtual address that needs to be changed.
> The way that QEMU should tell the kernel what that address is and what
> the mapping should be changed to, is via the existing munmap()/mmap()
> interface.

Yes. We agreed on that. QEMU should handle these mappings somewhere in 
VFIO. It's me grumbling, that's all.

The discussion has moved to the mmap() interface of the KVM device. The 
current proposal adds controls on the device creating fds to mmap() the 
TIMA pages and the ESB pages. David is proposing to use directly the fd 
of the KVM device to mmap() these pages with a different offset for each 
set. 

I think that should work pretty well, for passthrough also. The fault 
handler should take care of populating the VMA(s) with the appropriate 
pages. 

We might support END notification one day, so we should have room for 
these pages. And nested might require IRQ space extensions at L1. 
something to keep in mind.

C.
  

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-09  9:43 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 [this message]
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
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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