> On 12/06/18 15:50, gengdongjiu wrote:
> > On 2018/6/11 21:36, James Morse wrote:
> >> On 08/06/18 20:48, Dongjiu Geng wrote:
> >>> For the migrating VMs, user space may need to know the exception
> >>> state. For example, in the machine A, KVM make an SError pending,
> >>> when migrate to B, KVM also needs to pend an SError.
> >>>
> >>> This new IOCTL exports user-invisible states related to SError.
> >>> Together with appropriate user space changes, user space can get/set
> >>> the SError exception state to do migrate/snapshot/suspend.
>
>
> >>> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
> >>> b/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h index caae484..c3e6975 100644
> >>> --- a/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
> >>> +++ b/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
> >>> @@ -124,6 +124,18 @@ struct kvm_sync_regs { struct
> >>> kvm_arch_memory_slot { };
> >>>
> >>> +/* for KVM_GET/SET_VCPU_EVENTS */
> >>> +struct kvm_vcpu_events {
> >>> + struct {
> >>> + __u8 serror_pending;
> >>> + __u8 serror_has_esr;
> >>> + /* Align it to 8 bytes */
> >>> + __u8 pad[6];
> >>> + __u64 serror_esr;
> >>> + } exception;
> >>> + __u32 reserved[12];
> >>> +};
> >>> +
> >>
> >> You haven't defined __KVM_HAVE_VCPU_EVENTS for 32bit, so presumably
> >> this struct will never be used. Why is it here?
>
> > if not add it for 32 bits. the 32 arm platform will build Fail, whether you have good
> > idea to avoid this Failure if not add this struct for the 32 bit?
>
> How does this 32bit code build without this patch?
> If do you provide the struct, how will that code build with older headers?
>
> As far as I can see, this is what the __KVM_HAVE_VCPU_EVENTS define is for.
>
> This should be both, or neither. Having just the struct is useless.
>
>
> >>> +int kvm_arm_vcpu_set_events(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> >>> + struct kvm_vcpu_events *events)
> >>> +{
> >>> + bool serror_pending = events->exception.serror_pending;
> >>> + bool has_esr = events->exception.serror_has_esr;
> >>> +
> >>> + if (serror_pending && has_esr) {
> >>> + if (!cpus_have_const_cap(ARM64_HAS_RAS_EXTN))
> >>> + return -EINVAL;
> >>> +
> >>> + kvm_set_sei_esr(vcpu, events->exception.serror_esr);
> >>
> >> kvm_set_sei_esr() will silently discard the top 40 bits of
> >> serror_esr, (which is correct, we shouldn't copy them into hardware without know what they do).
> >>
> >> Could we please force user-space to zero these bits, we can advertise
> >> extra CAPs if new features turn up in that space, instead of
> >> user-space passing <something> and relying on the kernel to remove it.
> >
> > yes, I can zero these bits in the user-space and not depend on kernel to remove it.
>
> But the kernel must check that user-space did zero those bits. Otherwise user-space may start using them when a future version of the
For this comments, how about add below kernel check that user-space did zero those bits? Thanks.
+ if (!((events->exception.serror_esr) & ~ESR_ELx_ISS_MASK))
+ kvm_set_sei_esr(vcpu, events->exception.serror_esr);
+ else
+ return -EINVAL;
> architecture gives them a meaning, but an older kernel version doesn't know it has to do extra work, but still lets the bits from user-space
> through into the hardware.
>
> If new bits do turn up, we can advertise a CAP that says that KVM supports whatever that feature is.
>
>
> >> (Background: VSESR is a 64bit register that holds the value to go in
> >> a 32bit register. I suspect the top-half could get re-used for
> >> control values or something we don't want to give user-space)
>
> > do you mean when user-space get the VSESR value through
> > KVM_GET_VCPU_EVENTS it only return the low-half 32 bits?
>
> No, the kernel will only ever set a 24bit value here. If we force user-space to only provide a 24bit value then we don't need to check it on
> read. We never read the value back from hardware.
>
> These high bits are RES0 at the moment, they may get used for something in the future. As we are exposing this via a user-space ABI we
> need to make sure we only expose the bits we understand today.
Ok
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
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