From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
To: Claudio Carvalho <cclaudio@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Michael Anderson <andmike@linux.ibm.com>,
Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>,
kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.ibm.com>,
Ryan Grimm <grimm@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Thiago Bauermann <bauermann@linux.ibm.com>,
Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/9] KVM: PPC: Ultravisor: Use UV_WRITE_PATE ucall to register a PATE
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 07:38:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190615073858.GC24709@blackberry> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190606173614.32090-6-cclaudio@linux.ibm.com>
On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 02:36:10PM -0300, Claudio Carvalho wrote:
> From: Michael Anderson <andmike@linux.ibm.com>
>
> When running under an ultravisor, the ultravisor controls the real
> partition table and has it in secure memory where the hypervisor can't
> access it, and therefore we (the HV) have to do a ucall whenever we want
> to update an entry.
>
> The HV still keeps a copy of its view of the partition table in normal
> memory so that the nest MMU can access it.
>
> Both partition tables will have PATE entries for HV and normal virtual
> machines.
As discussed before, all of this should depend only on
CONFIG_PPC_POWERNV.
Paul.
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
To: Claudio Carvalho <cclaudio@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Michael Anderson <andmike@linux.ibm.com>,
Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>,
kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.ibm.com>,
Ryan Grimm <grimm@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Thiago Bauermann <bauermann@linux.ibm.com>,
Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/9] KVM: PPC: Ultravisor: Use UV_WRITE_PATE ucall to register a PATE
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 17:38:58 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190615073858.GC24709@blackberry> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190606173614.32090-6-cclaudio@linux.ibm.com>
On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 02:36:10PM -0300, Claudio Carvalho wrote:
> From: Michael Anderson <andmike@linux.ibm.com>
>
> When running under an ultravisor, the ultravisor controls the real
> partition table and has it in secure memory where the hypervisor can't
> access it, and therefore we (the HV) have to do a ucall whenever we want
> to update an entry.
>
> The HV still keeps a copy of its view of the partition table in normal
> memory so that the nest MMU can access it.
>
> Both partition tables will have PATE entries for HV and normal virtual
> machines.
As discussed before, all of this should depend only on
CONFIG_PPC_POWERNV.
Paul.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-15 7:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-06 17:36 [PATCH v3 0/9] kvmppc: Paravirtualize KVM to support ultravisor Claudio Carvalho
2019-06-06 17:36 ` Claudio Carvalho
2019-06-06 17:36 ` [PATCH v3 1/9] KVM: PPC: Ultravisor: Add PPC_UV config option Claudio Carvalho
2019-06-06 17:36 ` Claudio Carvalho
2019-06-07 20:11 ` Leonardo Bras
2019-06-07 20:11 ` Leonardo Bras
2019-06-10 12:18 ` Claudio Carvalho
2019-06-10 12:18 ` Claudio Carvalho
2019-06-06 17:36 ` [PATCH v3 2/9] KVM: PPC: Ultravisor: Introduce the MSR_S bit Claudio Carvalho
2019-06-06 17:36 ` Claudio Carvalho
2019-06-06 17:36 ` [PATCH v3 3/9] powerpc: Introduce FW_FEATURE_ULTRAVISOR Claudio Carvalho
2019-06-06 17:36 ` Claudio Carvalho
2019-06-15 7:36 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-06-15 7:36 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-07-01 14:12 ` Claudio Carvalho
2019-07-01 14:12 ` Claudio Carvalho
2019-06-06 17:36 ` [PATCH v3 4/9] KVM: PPC: Ultravisor: Add generic ultravisor call handler Claudio Carvalho
2019-06-06 17:36 ` Claudio Carvalho
2019-06-15 7:37 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-06-15 7:37 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-06-17 2:06 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-06-17 2:06 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-06-17 23:51 ` Ram Pai
2019-06-17 23:51 ` Ram Pai
2019-06-18 11:47 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-06-18 11:47 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-06-18 15:25 ` Ram Pai
2019-06-18 15:25 ` Ram Pai
2019-06-06 17:36 ` [PATCH v3 5/9] KVM: PPC: Ultravisor: Use UV_WRITE_PATE ucall to register a PATE Claudio Carvalho
2019-06-06 17:36 ` Claudio Carvalho
2019-06-15 7:38 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2019-06-15 7:38 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-06-06 17:36 ` [PATCH v3 6/9] KVM: PPC: Ultravisor: Restrict flush of the partition tlb cache Claudio Carvalho
2019-06-06 17:36 ` Claudio Carvalho
2019-06-06 19:39 ` Murilo Opsfelder Araújo
2019-06-06 19:39 ` Murilo Opsfelder Araújo
2019-06-06 21:55 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-06-06 21:55 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-06-06 17:36 ` [PATCH v3 7/9] KVM: PPC: Ultravisor: Restrict LDBAR access Claudio Carvalho
2019-06-06 17:36 ` Claudio Carvalho
2019-06-07 4:48 ` Madhavan Srinivasan
2019-06-07 4:48 ` Madhavan Srinivasan
2019-06-07 12:34 ` Claudio Carvalho
2019-06-07 12:34 ` Claudio Carvalho
2019-06-15 7:43 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-06-15 7:43 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-06-16 1:10 ` Ram Pai
2019-06-16 1:10 ` Ram Pai
2019-06-06 17:36 ` [PATCH v3 8/9] KVM: PPC: Ultravisor: Enter a secure guest Claudio Carvalho
2019-06-06 17:36 ` Claudio Carvalho
2019-06-15 7:45 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-06-15 7:45 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-06-06 17:36 ` [PATCH v3 9/9] KVM: PPC: Ultravisor: Check for MSR_S during hv_reset_msr Claudio Carvalho
2019-06-06 17:36 ` Claudio Carvalho
2019-06-15 7:47 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-06-15 7:47 ` Paul Mackerras
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