Re: [PATCH v1 2/9] KVM: s390: Extend MEM_OP ioctl by storage key checked cmpxchg

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On 30/09/2022 23.07, Janis Schoetterl-Glausch wrote:
User space can use the MEM_OP ioctl to make storage key checked reads
and writes to the guest, however, it has no way of performing atomic,
key checked, accesses to the guest.
Extend the MEM_OP ioctl in order to allow for this, by adding a cmpxchg
mode. For now, support this mode for absolute accesses only.

This mode can be use, for example, to set the device-state-change
indicator and the adapter-local-summary indicator atomically.

Signed-off-by: Janis Schoetterl-Glausch <scgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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The return value of MEM_OP is:
   0 on success,
   < 0 on generic error (e.g. -EFAULT or -ENOMEM),
   > 0 if an exception occurred while walking the page tables
A cmpxchg failing because the old value doesn't match is neither an
error nor an exception, so the question is how best to signal that
condition. This is not strictly necessary since user space can compare
the value of old after the MEM_OP with the value it set. If they're
different the cmpxchg failed. It might be a better user interface if
there is an easier way to see if the cmpxchg failed.
This patch sets the cmpxchg flag bit to 0 on a successful cmpxchg.
This way you can compare against a constant instead of the old old
value.
This has the disadvantage of being a bit weird, other suggestions
welcome.

This also breaks the old API of defining the ioctl as _IOW only ... with your change to the flags field, it effectively gets IOWR instead.

Maybe it would be better to put all the new logic into a new struct and only pass a pointer to that struct in kvm_s390_mem_op, so that the ioctl stays IOW ? ... or maybe even introduce a completely new ioctl for this functionality instead?

 Thomas




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