Re: [PATCH 5/6 v7] kvm: booke: clear host tlb reference flag on guest tlb invalidation

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On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 09:12 +0530, Bharat Bhushan wrote:
> On booke, "struct tlbe_ref" contains host tlb mapping information
> (pfn: for guest-pfn to pfn, flags: attribute associated with this mapping)
> for a guest tlb entry. So when a guest creates a TLB entry then
> "struct tlbe_ref" is set to point to valid "pfn" and set attributes in
> "flags" field of the above said structure. When a guest TLB entry is
> invalidated then flags field of corresponding "struct tlbe_ref" is
> updated to point that this is no more valid, also we selectively clear
> some other attribute bits, example: if E500_TLB_BITMAP was set then we clear
> E500_TLB_BITMAP, if E500_TLB_TLB0 is set then we clear this.
> 
> Ideally we should clear complete "flags" as this entry is invalid and does not
> have anything to re-used. The other part of the problem is that when we use
> the same entry again then also we do not clear (started doing or-ing etc).
> 
> So far it was working because the selectively clearing mentioned above
> actually clears "flags" what was set during TLB mapping. But the problem
> starts coming when we add more attributes to this then we need to selectively
> clear them and which is not needed.
> 
> This patch we do both
>         - Clear "flags" when invalidating;
>         - Clear "flags" when reusing same entry later
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v6->7
>  - Comment re-phrased

Reviewed-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

-Scott



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