On Fri, 20 Dec 2024 10:55:44 +0100
David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 19.12.24 17:22, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> > The vsie pages are not standard page tables, so do not convert them to
> > use ptdesc.
>
> They are not page tables "at all" :)
>
> A vsie_page is used when emulating hardware virtualization (SIE --
> Start Interpretive Executio) for a CPU: vSIE -- virtual SIE
>
> These pages primarily hold the shadowed "SIE control block" (SCB) that tells
> the hardware what to do when entering hardware virtualization (SIE), and
> include things like CPU state such as registers. We store some other
> information in the same page.
>
> We have to the SCB provided by the VM VCPU when running the nested VM VCPU. The
> SCB resides in guest physical memory. So similar to shadowing of page tables,
> we have to detect modifications to the SCB, so we can update out shadowed version
> accordingly.
>
> We use grab a page and fill a vsie page VCPU wants to execute the SIE instruction
> (executing the nested VM VCPU), and return it to the pool when we are done
> emulating the SIE instruction. We try to reuse the same vsie pages over various
> runs, thats why we store the address of the last SCB address we shadowed,
> to look it up. (improves HW performance)
>
>
> So page->index will hold the "guest physical address of the SCB we shadowed
> the last time this vsie page was used".
>
> We seem to have space in the vsie page, so I think we can avoid messing
> with page-> completely!
I really like this.
>
> From c94e4ecd6ee791ef9cda1c0577a1e765e5ce2867 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 10:53:46 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] tmp
>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/s390/kvm/vsie.c | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/vsie.c b/arch/s390/kvm/vsie.c
> index 150b9387860ad..0a8cffe9b80bf 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/kvm/vsie.c
> +++ b/arch/s390/kvm/vsie.c
> @@ -46,7 +46,13 @@ struct vsie_page {
> gpa_t gvrd_gpa; /* 0x0240 */
> gpa_t riccbd_gpa; /* 0x0248 */
> gpa_t sdnx_gpa; /* 0x0250 */
> - __u8 reserved[0x0700 - 0x0258]; /* 0x0258 */
> + /*
> + * guest address of the original SCB. Remains set for free vsie
> + * pages, so we can properly look them up in our addr_to_page
> + * radix tree.
> + */
> + gpa_t scb_gpa; /* 0x0258 */
> + __u8 reserved[0x0700 - 0x0260]; /* 0x0260 */
> struct kvm_s390_crypto_cb crycb; /* 0x0700 */
> __u8 fac[S390_ARCH_FAC_LIST_SIZE_BYTE]; /* 0x0800 */
> };
> @@ -1383,6 +1389,7 @@ static struct vsie_page *get_vsie_page(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long addr)
> page_ref_inc(page);
> kvm->arch.vsie.pages[kvm->arch.vsie.page_count] = page;
> kvm->arch.vsie.page_count++;
> + vsie_page = page_to_virt(page);
> } else {
> /* reuse an existing entry that belongs to nobody */
> while (true) {
> @@ -1393,9 +1400,11 @@ static struct vsie_page *get_vsie_page(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long addr)
> kvm->arch.vsie.next++;
> kvm->arch.vsie.next %= nr_vcpus;
> }
> - radix_tree_delete(&kvm->arch.vsie.addr_to_page, page->index >> 9);
> + vsie_page = page_to_virt(page);
> + radix_tree_delete(&kvm->arch.vsie.addr_to_page,
> + vsie_page->scb_gpa >> 9);
> }
> - page->index = addr;
> + vsie_page->scb_gpa = addr;
> /* double use of the same address */
> if (radix_tree_insert(&kvm->arch.vsie.addr_to_page, addr >> 9, page)) {
> page_ref_dec(page);
> @@ -1404,7 +1413,6 @@ static struct vsie_page *get_vsie_page(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long addr)
> }
> mutex_unlock(&kvm->arch.vsie.mutex);
>
> - vsie_page = page_to_virt(page);
> memset(&vsie_page->scb_s, 0, sizeof(struct kvm_s390_sie_block));
> release_gmap_shadow(vsie_page);
> vsie_page->fault_addr = 0;
> @@ -1496,7 +1504,8 @@ void kvm_s390_vsie_destroy(struct kvm *kvm)
> vsie_page = page_to_virt(page);
> release_gmap_shadow(vsie_page);
> /* free the radix tree entry */
> - radix_tree_delete(&kvm->arch.vsie.addr_to_page, page->index >> 9);
> + radix_tree_delete(&kvm->arch.vsie.addr_to_page,
> + vsie_page->scb_gpa >> 9);
> __free_page(page);
> }
> kvm->arch.vsie.page_count = 0;
