From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Lucas Mateus Martins Araujo e Castro <lucas.araujo@eldorado.org.br>
Cc: Bruno Piazera Larsen <bruno.larsen@eldorado.org.br>,
"qemu-ppc@nongnu.org" <qemu-ppc@nongnu.org>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: target/ppc: sPAPR invalid function calls when compiling without TCG
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:06:03 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YH+kq8F0gOSWtgbN@yekko.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <RO1PR80MB561024219A35A26C418CF51BCE489@RO1PR80MB5610.lamprd80.prod.outlook.com>
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On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 06:27:38PM +0000, Lucas Mateus Martins Araujo e Castro wrote:
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> >> spapr_hcall.c:
> >> function h_enter call ppc_hash64_hpte_page_shift_noslb, ppc_hash64_map_hptes and ppc_hash64_unmap_hptes
> >> function remove_hpte call ppc_hash64_map_hptes, ppc_hash64_unmap_hptes and ppc_hash64_tlb_flush_hpte
> >> function h_protect call ppc_hash64_map_hptes, ppc_hash64_unmap_hptes and ppc_hash64_tlb_flush_hpte
> >> function h_read call ppc_hash64_map_hptes and ppc_hash64_unmap_hptes
> >> function rehash_hpte call ppc_hash64_hpte_page_shift_noslb
> >> function rehash_hpt call ppc_hash64_map_hptes and ppc_hash64_unmap_hptes
> >
> >h_enter, remove_hpte, h_protect, h_read and rehash_hpte should never
> >be called for a KVM guest (KVM will intercept the relevant hcalls
> >before they reach qemu). I think it would make sense to split of a
> >TCG only portion of spapr_hcall.c into a new file. You'll then
> >probably need !TCG stubs for those hypercalls, which should trip a
> >fatal error (if KVM hasn't handled the calls, there's nothing we can
> >do that will salvage the situation).
>
> Besides the aforementioned functions, will all spapr hypercalls
> beginning with H_* be intercepted (and therefore, should trip a
> fatal error in the KVM-only file) or only a subset of these
> functions will be intercepted?
No, only a few hcalls will be KVM intercepted. There are basically
two categories:
1) hcalls which *must* be implemented in KVM, because qemu doesn't
have access to the KVM data structures to implement them. I
think this is pretty much just the MMU related hypercalls.
2) performance critical hcalls where we have a KVM accelerated
implementation, but *could* be implemented in qemu (and in a few
cases the kernel fast path will fall back to the qemu slow path
sometimes)
> If the latter is there an interval of
> opcodes that'll be intercepted?
No. The opcode numbers aren't defined by KVM or qemu, they're from
from PAPR/PowerVM and have no bearing on how concerns are divided in
the KVM/qemu world. I'd start by only separating hypercall
implementations which are actively causing you problems (calling into
TCG code is a strong hint that its in category (1)).
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2021-04-20 18:27 target/ppc: sPAPR invalid function calls when compiling without TCG Lucas Mateus Martins Araujo e Castro
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2021-04-19 19:04 Lucas Mateus Martins Araujo e Castro
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