Re: [PATCH] KVM: Switch 'requests' to be 64-bit (explicitly)

["Raslan, KarimAllah" <karahmed@amazon.de>]

On Mon, 2018-04-16 at 18:28 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 15/04/2018 00:26, KarimAllah Ahmed wrote:
> > 
> > Switch 'requests' to be explicitly 64-bit and update BUILD_BUG_ON check to
> > use the size of "requests" instead of the hard-coded '32'.
> > 
> > That gives us a bit more room again for arch-specific requests as we
> > already ran out of space for x86 due to the hard-coded check.
> > 
> > Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> > Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
> > Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> > Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
> 
> I'm afraid architectures like ARM 32 need this to be conditional (using
> Kconfig).

Why would using a 64-bit 'requests' be a problem for ARM32? Are you 
concerned about performance here or is there some symantic problem?

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paolo
> 
> > 
> > ---
> >  include/linux/kvm_host.h | 10 +++++-----
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
> > index 6930c63..fe4f46b 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
> > @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ static inline bool is_error_page(struct page *page)
> >  #define KVM_REQUEST_ARCH_BASE     8
> >  
> >  #define KVM_ARCH_REQ_FLAGS(nr, flags) ({ \
> > -	BUILD_BUG_ON((unsigned)(nr) >= 32 - KVM_REQUEST_ARCH_BASE); \
> > +	BUILD_BUG_ON((unsigned)(nr) >= (sizeof(((struct kvm_vcpu *)0)->requests) * 8) - KVM_REQUEST_ARCH_BASE); \
> >  	(unsigned)(((nr) + KVM_REQUEST_ARCH_BASE) | (flags)); \
> >  })
> >  #define KVM_ARCH_REQ(nr)           KVM_ARCH_REQ_FLAGS(nr, 0)
> > @@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ struct kvm_vcpu {
> >  	int vcpu_id;
> >  	int srcu_idx;
> >  	int mode;
> > -	unsigned long requests;
> > +	u64 requests;
> >  	unsigned long guest_debug;
> >  
> >  	int pre_pcpu;
> > @@ -1122,7 +1122,7 @@ static inline void kvm_make_request(int req, struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> >  	 * caller.  Paired with the smp_mb__after_atomic in kvm_check_request.
> >  	 */
> >  	smp_wmb();
> > -	set_bit(req & KVM_REQUEST_MASK, &vcpu->requests);
> > +	set_bit(req & KVM_REQUEST_MASK, (void *)&vcpu->requests);
> >  }
> >  
> >  static inline bool kvm_request_pending(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> > @@ -1132,12 +1132,12 @@ static inline bool kvm_request_pending(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> >  
> >  static inline bool kvm_test_request(int req, struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> >  {
> > -	return test_bit(req & KVM_REQUEST_MASK, &vcpu->requests);
> > +	return test_bit(req & KVM_REQUEST_MASK, (void *)&vcpu->requests);
> >  }
> >  
> >  static inline void kvm_clear_request(int req, struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> >  {
> > -	clear_bit(req & KVM_REQUEST_MASK, &vcpu->requests);
> > +	clear_bit(req & KVM_REQUEST_MASK, (void *)&vcpu->requests);
> >  }
> >  
> >  static inline bool kvm_check_request(int req, struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> > 
> 
> 
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