On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 10:58:33PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> There are several new bits added to the hcall which reflect new issues
> found and new hardware mitigations.
> 
> This adds the link stack flush behaviour, link stack flush accelerated
> instruction capability, and several L1D flush type behaviours (which are
> now being specified as negative in order to simplify patched kernel
> compatibility with older firmware).

So, to clarify here, the bits your adding aren't advertising any new
behaviour on qemu/KVM's part, they're just new ways of advertising the
same behaviour?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
> ---
>  hw/ppc/spapr_hcall.c   | 5 +++++
>  include/hw/ppc/spapr.h | 6 ++++++
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr_hcall.c b/hw/ppc/spapr_hcall.c
> index 7275d0bba1..f656620232 100644
> --- a/hw/ppc/spapr_hcall.c
> +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr_hcall.c
> @@ -1878,6 +1878,9 @@ static target_ulong h_get_cpu_characteristics(PowerPCCPU *cpu,
>          behaviour |= H_CPU_BEHAV_L1D_FLUSH_PR;
>          break;
>      case SPAPR_CAP_FIXED:
> +        behaviour |= H_CPU_BEHAV_NO_L1D_FLUSH_ENTRY;
> +        behaviour |= H_CPU_BEHAV_NO_L1D_FLUSH_UACCESS;
> +        behaviour |= H_CPU_BEHAV_NO_STF_BARRIER;
>          break;
>      default: /* broken */
>          assert(safe_cache == SPAPR_CAP_BROKEN);
> @@ -1909,9 +1912,11 @@ static target_ulong h_get_cpu_characteristics(PowerPCCPU *cpu,
>          break;
>      case SPAPR_CAP_WORKAROUND:
>          behaviour |= H_CPU_BEHAV_FLUSH_COUNT_CACHE;
> +        behaviour |= H_CPU_BEHAV_FLUSH_LINK_STACK;
>          if (count_cache_flush_assist) {
>              characteristics |= H_CPU_CHAR_BCCTR_FLUSH_ASSIST;
>          }
> +        /* Should have a way to enable BCCTR_LINK_FLUSH_ASSIST */

Do we need a new spapr capability for this link flush thing?

>          break;
>      default: /* broken */
>          assert(safe_indirect_branch == SPAPR_CAP_BROKEN);
> diff --git a/include/hw/ppc/spapr.h b/include/hw/ppc/spapr.h
> index 7f40a158f4..883ac1db3c 100644
> --- a/include/hw/ppc/spapr.h
> +++ b/include/hw/ppc/spapr.h
> @@ -395,10 +395,16 @@ struct SpaprMachineState {
>  #define H_CPU_CHAR_THR_RECONF_TRIG              PPC_BIT(6)
>  #define H_CPU_CHAR_CACHE_COUNT_DIS              PPC_BIT(7)
>  #define H_CPU_CHAR_BCCTR_FLUSH_ASSIST           PPC_BIT(9)
> +#define H_CPU_CHAR_BCCTR_LINK_FLUSH_ASSIST      PPC_BIT(11)
> +
>  #define H_CPU_BEHAV_FAVOUR_SECURITY             PPC_BIT(0)
>  #define H_CPU_BEHAV_L1D_FLUSH_PR                PPC_BIT(1)
>  #define H_CPU_BEHAV_BNDS_CHK_SPEC_BAR           PPC_BIT(2)
>  #define H_CPU_BEHAV_FLUSH_COUNT_CACHE           PPC_BIT(5)
> +#define H_CPU_BEHAV_FLUSH_LINK_STACK            PPC_BIT(6)
> +#define H_CPU_BEHAV_NO_L1D_FLUSH_ENTRY          PPC_BIT(7)
> +#define H_CPU_BEHAV_NO_L1D_FLUSH_UACCESS        PPC_BIT(8)
> +#define H_CPU_BEHAV_NO_STF_BARRIER              PPC_BIT(9)
>  
>  /* Each control block has to be on a 4K boundary */
>  #define H_CB_ALIGNMENT     4096

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