Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] KVM: arm64: Introduce cache maintenance callbacks for guest stage-2

wangyanan (Y)
2021-06-17T09:43:36Z

Hi Marc,

On 2021/6/17 16:44, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 09:22:51 +0100,
> "wangyanan (Y)" <wangyanan55@huawei.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2021/6/17 16:03, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>> On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 07:48:29 +0100,
>>> "wangyanan (Y)" <wangyanan55@huawei.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi Marc,
>>>>
>>>> On 2021/6/16 21:21, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>>>> Hi Yanan,
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 10:51:57 +0100,
>>>>> Yanan Wang <wangyanan55@huawei.com> wrote:
>>>>>> To prepare for performing guest CMOs in the fault handlers in pgtable.c,
>>>>>> introduce two cache maintenance callbacks in struct kvm_pgtable_mm_ops.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The new callbacks are specific for guest stage-2, so they will only be
>>>>>> initialized in 'struct kvm_pgtable_mm_ops kvm_s2_mm_ops'.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Yanan Wang <wangyanan55@huawei.com>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h | 7 +++++++
>>>>>> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h
>>>>>> index c3674c47d48c..302eca32e0af 100644
>>>>>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h
>>>>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h
>>>>>> @@ -44,6 +44,11 @@ typedef u64 kvm_pte_t;
>>>>>> * in the current context.
>>>>>> * @virt_to_phys: Convert a virtual address mapped in the current context
>>>>>> * into a physical address.
>>>>>> + * @flush_dcache: Clean data cache for a guest page address range before
>>>>>> + * creating the corresponding stage-2 mapping.
>>>>> Please don't reintroduce the word 'flush'. We are really trying to
>>>>> move away from it as it doesn't describe what we want to do.
>>>> I agree with this. I intended to make the names short and laconic, but this
>>>> missed the information about the callback's actual behaviors.
>>>>> Here this
>>>>> should be 'clean_invalidate_dcache' which, despite being a mouthful,
>>>>> describe accurately what we expect it to do.
>>>> Sure, I will change the name as you suggested.
>>>>> The comment is also missing the invalidate part, and we shouldn't
>>>>> assume that this is only used for S2 mapping.
>>>> Ok, will refine the comment. I think something like"Clean and invalidate the
>>>> date cache for the specified memory address range" may be generic enough.
>>>>>> + * @flush_icache: Invalidate instruction cache for a guest page address
>>>>>> + * range before creating or updating the corresponding
>>>>>> + * stage-2 mapping.
>>>>> Same thing here; this should be 'invalidate_icache', and the comment
>>>>> cleaned up.
>>>> Thanks, I will also correct this part.
>>>>
>>>> Besides the callback names and comments, is there anything else that still
>>>> needs some adjustment in the other three patches? :)
>>> It looks pretty good so far, much nicer than the previous versions.
>>>
>>> I have a small nit on the last patch, which should be dead easy to
>>> address. I'm currently running a bunch of tests, hopefully nothing bad
>>> will come out of it.
>>>
>>> If you respin it shortly, that nothing fails, and unless someone
>>> shouts, I'll queue it for -next.
>> It would be nice, thanks!
>> I will address the nit and respin the series soon.
> By the way, what the status of your selftest series that originally
> came with this series? Are you planning to respin it? It would be
> useful to have something that checks for regressions, and that series
> did seem to do the trick.
Actually they have already gone into upstream, since v5.13-rc1. :)
The path is tools/testing/selftests/kvm/kvm_page_table_test.c, so it
will be much convenient to test a 5.13 kernel, you can also have a try.

I am using the original test data from v3 in the cover-letter because
I think the test results will be almost the same with a different kernel.

Thanks,
Yanan
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> Thanks,
>
> M.