Re: [PATCH 04/21] libs/guest: introduce helper to fetch a system cpu policy

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>]

On 23.03.2021 10:58, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> Such helper is based on the existing functions to fetch a CPUID and
> MSR policies, but uses the xc_cpu_policy_t type to return the data to
> the caller.
> 
> Note some helper functions are introduced, those are split from
> xc_cpu_policy_get_system because they will be used by other functions
> also.
> 
> No user of the interface introduced on the patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>

Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
with just one minor remark below:

> --- a/tools/include/xenctrl.h
> +++ b/tools/include/xenctrl.h
> @@ -2596,6 +2596,10 @@ typedef struct cpu_policy *xc_cpu_policy_t;
>  xc_cpu_policy_t xc_cpu_policy_init(void);
>  void xc_cpu_policy_destroy(xc_cpu_policy_t policy);
>  
> +/* Retrieve a system policy, or get/set a domains policy. */
> +int xc_cpu_policy_get_system(xc_interface *xch, unsigned int idx,
> +                             xc_cpu_policy_t policy);
> +
>  int xc_get_cpu_levelling_caps(xc_interface *xch, uint32_t *caps);
>  int xc_get_cpu_featureset(xc_interface *xch, uint32_t index,
>                            uint32_t *nr_features, uint32_t *featureset);
> diff --git a/tools/libs/guest/xg_cpuid_x86.c b/tools/libs/guest/xg_cpuid_x86.c
> index ade5281c178..3710fb63839 100644
> --- a/tools/libs/guest/xg_cpuid_x86.c
> +++ b/tools/libs/guest/xg_cpuid_x86.c
> @@ -687,3 +687,93 @@ void xc_cpu_policy_destroy(xc_cpu_policy_t policy)
>      free(policy->msr);
>      free(policy);
>  }
> +
> +static int allocate_buffers(xc_interface *xch,
> +                            unsigned int *nr_leaves, xen_cpuid_leaf_t **leaves,
> +                            unsigned int *nr_msrs, xen_msr_entry_t **msrs)
> +{
> +    int rc;
> +
> +    *leaves = NULL;
> +    *msrs = NULL;
> +
> +    rc = xc_cpu_policy_get_size(xch, nr_leaves, nr_msrs);
> +    if ( rc )
> +    {
> +        PERROR("Failed to obtain policy info size");
> +        return -errno;
> +    }
> +
> +    *leaves = calloc(*nr_leaves, sizeof(**leaves));
> +    *msrs = calloc(*nr_msrs, sizeof(**msrs));
> +    if ( !*leaves || !*msrs )
> +    {
> +        PERROR("Failed to allocate resources");
> +        free(*leaves);
> +        free(*msrs);
> +        return -ENOMEM;
> +    }
> +
> +    return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static int deserialize_policy(xc_interface *xch, xc_cpu_policy_t policy,
> +                              unsigned int nr_leaves,
> +                              const xen_cpuid_leaf_t *leaves,
> +                              unsigned int nr_msrs, const xen_msr_entry_t *msrs)
> +{
> +    uint32_t err_leaf = -1, err_subleaf = -1, err_msr = -1;
> +    int rc;
> +
> +    rc = x86_cpuid_copy_from_buffer(policy->cpuid, leaves, nr_leaves,
> +                                    &err_leaf, &err_subleaf);
> +    if ( rc )
> +    {
> +        ERROR("Failed to deserialise CPUID (err leaf %#x, subleaf %#x) (%d = %s)",
> +              err_leaf, err_subleaf, -rc, strerror(-rc));
> +        return rc;
> +    }
> +
> +    rc = x86_msr_copy_from_buffer(policy->msr, msrs, nr_msrs, &err_msr);
> +    if ( rc )
> +    {
> +        ERROR("Failed to deserialise MSR (err MSR %#x) (%d = %s)",
> +              err_msr, -rc, strerror(-rc));
> +        return rc;
> +    }
> +
> +    return 0;
> +}
> +
> +int xc_cpu_policy_get_system(xc_interface *xch, unsigned int idx,
> +                             xc_cpu_policy_t policy)
> +{
> +    unsigned int nr_leaves, nr_msrs;
> +    xen_cpuid_leaf_t *leaves = NULL;
> +    xen_msr_entry_t *msrs = NULL;
> +    int rc;
> +
> +    rc = allocate_buffers(xch, &nr_leaves, &leaves, &nr_msrs, &msrs);
> +    if ( rc )
> +    {
> +        errno = -rc;
> +        return -1;
> +    }
> +
> +    rc = xc_get_system_cpu_policy(xch, idx, &nr_leaves, leaves, &nr_msrs, msrs);
> +    if ( rc )
> +    {
> +        PERROR("Failed to obtain %u policy", idx);
> +        rc = -1;
> +        goto out;
> +    }
> +
> +    rc = deserialize_policy(xch, policy, nr_leaves, leaves, nr_msrs, msrs);
> +    if ( rc )
> +        errno = -rc;

Perhaps also set rc to -1 here for consistency?

Jan