Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] arm/kvm: add support for MTE

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On Tue, Jan 17 2023, Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 1/11/23 06:13, Cornelia Huck wrote:
>> @@ -2136,7 +2136,7 @@ static void machvirt_init(MachineState *machine)
>>   
>>       if (vms->mte && (kvm_enabled() || hvf_enabled())) {
>>           error_report("mach-virt: %s does not support providing "
>> -                     "MTE to the guest CPU",
>> +                     "emulated MTE to the guest CPU",
>>                        kvm_enabled() ? "KVM" : "HVF");
>
> Not your bug, but noticing this should use current_accel_name().

I can fix it as I'm touching the code anyway.

(Hm... two more of these right above. Maybe better in a separate patch.)

>
>> +static inline bool arm_machine_has_tag_memory(void)
>> +{
>> +#ifndef CONFIG_USER_ONLY
>> +    Object *obj = object_dynamic_cast(qdev_get_machine(), TYPE_VIRT_MACHINE);
>> +
>> +    /* so far, only the virt machine has support for tag memory */
>> +    if (obj) {
>> +        VirtMachineState *vms = VIRT_MACHINE(obj);
>> +
>> +        return vms->mte;
>> +    }
>> +#endif
>> +    return false;
>> +}
>
> True for CONFIG_USER_ONLY, via page_get_target_data().
> You should have seen check-tcg test failures...

Weird, let me check my setup...

>
>> +void arm_cpu_mte_finalize(ARMCPU *cpu, Error **errp)
>> +{
>> +    bool enable_mte;
>> +
>> +    switch (cpu->prop_mte) {
>> +    case ON_OFF_AUTO_OFF:
>> +        enable_mte = false;
>> +        break;
>> +    case ON_OFF_AUTO_ON:
>> +        if (!kvm_enabled()) {
>
> tcg_enabled(), here and everywhere else you test for !kvm.
>
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_KVM
>> +        if (kvm_enabled() && !kvm_arm_mte_supported()) {
>
> kvm_arm.h should get a stub inline returning false, so that the ifdef is removed.
> See e.g. kvm_arm_sve_supported().

Oh, I actually did add it already...

>
>> +    default: /* AUTO */
>> +        if (!kvm_enabled()) {
>
> tcg_enabled.
>
>> +    /* accelerator-specific enablement */
>> +    if (kvm_enabled()) {
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_KVM
>> +        if (kvm_vm_enable_cap(kvm_state, KVM_CAP_ARM_MTE, 0)) {
>> +            error_setg(errp, "Failed to enable KVM_CAP_ARM_MTE");
>
> Ideally this ifdef could go away as well.
>
>> +        } else {
>> +            /* TODO: add proper migration support with MTE enabled */
>> +            if (!mte_migration_blocker) {
>
> Move the global variable here, as a local static?
>
> I guess this check is to avoid adding one blocker per cpu?
> I would guess the cap doesn't need enabling more than once either?

Indeed, it's a VM cap. (I only tested this on a single-cpu FVP setup.)

>
>
>> +                error_setg(&mte_migration_blocker,
>> +                           "Live migration disabled due to MTE enabled");
>> +                if (migrate_add_blocker(mte_migration_blocker, NULL)) {
>
> You pass NULL to the migrate_add_blocker errp argument...
>
>> +                    error_setg(errp, "Failed to add MTE migration blocker");
>
> ... then make up your own generic reason for why it failed.
> In this case it seems only related to another command-line option: --only-migratable.
>
>
> Anyway, I wonder about hiding all of this in target/arm/kvm.c:
>
> bool kvm_arm_enable_mte(Error *errp)
> {
>      static bool once = false;
>      Error *blocker;
>
>      if (once) {
>          return;
>      }
>      once = true;
>
>      if (kvm_vm_enable_cap(kvm_state, KVM_CAP_ARM_MTE, 0)) {
>          error_setg_errno(errp, "Failed to enable KVM_CAP_ARM_MTE");
>          return false;
>      }
>
>      blocker = g_new0(Error);
>      error_setg(blocker, "Live migration disabled....");
>      return !migrate_add_blocker(blocker, errp);
> }
>
> with
>
> static inline bool kvm_arm_enable_mte(Error *errp)
> {
>      g_assert_not_reached();
> }
>
> in the !CONFIG_KVM block in kvm_arm.h.

Good suggestion, I'll give that one a try.

Thanks for the feedback!




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