Re: [PATCH v4 5/8] KVM: PPC: Ultravisor: Restrict flush of the partition tlb cache

[Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>]

On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 02:54:52PM -0500, janani wrote:
> On 2019-06-28 15:08, Claudio Carvalho wrote:
> >From: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
> >
> >Ultravisor is responsible for flushing the tlb cache, since it manages
> >the PATE entries. Hence skip tlb flush, if the ultravisor firmware is
> >available.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
> >Signed-off-by: Claudio Carvalho <cclaudio@linux.ibm.com>
> >---
> > arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/pgtable.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++-------------
> > 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/pgtable.c
> >b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/pgtable.c
> >index 224c5c7c2e3d..bc8eb2bf9810 100644
> >--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/pgtable.c
> >+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/pgtable.c
> >@@ -224,6 +224,23 @@ void __init mmu_partition_table_init(void)
> > 	powernv_set_nmmu_ptcr(ptcr);
> > }
> >
> >+static void flush_partition(unsigned int lpid, unsigned long dw0)
> >+{
> >+	if (dw0 & PATB_HR) {
> >+		asm volatile(PPC_TLBIE_5(%0, %1, 2, 0, 1) : :
> >+			     "r" (TLBIEL_INVAL_SET_LPID), "r" (lpid));
> >+		asm volatile(PPC_TLBIE_5(%0, %1, 2, 1, 1) : :
> >+			     "r" (TLBIEL_INVAL_SET_LPID), "r" (lpid));
> >+		trace_tlbie(lpid, 0, TLBIEL_INVAL_SET_LPID, lpid, 2, 0, 1);
> >+	} else {
> >+		asm volatile(PPC_TLBIE_5(%0, %1, 2, 0, 0) : :
> >+			     "r" (TLBIEL_INVAL_SET_LPID), "r" (lpid));
> >+		trace_tlbie(lpid, 0, TLBIEL_INVAL_SET_LPID, lpid, 2, 0, 0);
> >+	}
> >+	/* do we need fixup here ?*/
> >+	asm volatile("eieio; tlbsync; ptesync" : : : "memory");
> >+}
> >+
> > static void __mmu_partition_table_set_entry(unsigned int lpid,
> > 					    unsigned long dw0,
> > 					    unsigned long dw1)
> >@@ -238,20 +255,8 @@ static void
> >__mmu_partition_table_set_entry(unsigned int lpid,
> > 	 * The type of flush (hash or radix) depends on what the previous
> > 	 * use of this partition ID was, not the new use.
> > 	 */
> >-	asm volatile("ptesync" : : : "memory");
>  Doesn't the line above that was deleted need to be added to the
> beginning of flush_partition()

It has to. It got dropped erroneously.

This is a good catch!

Thanks,
RP