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From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To: Jianyong Wu <jianyong.wu@arm.com>
Cc: justin.he@arm.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	richardcochran@gmail.com, yangbo.lu@nxp.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sean.j.christopherson@intel.com,
	steven.price@arm.com, john.stultz@linaro.org,
	Andre.Przywara@arm.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
	nd@arm.com, will@kernel.org, kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v15 6/9] arm64/kvm: Add hypercall service for kvm ptp.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 11:59:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <276428d3d291f703e2f0c2c323194e98@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d409aa1cb7cfcbf4351e6c5fc34d9c7e@kernel.org>

On 2020-11-23 10:44, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 2020-11-11 06:22, Jianyong Wu wrote:
>> ptp_kvm will get this service through SMCC call.
>> The service offers wall time and cycle count of host to guest.
>> The caller must specify whether they want the host cycle count
>> or the difference between host cycle count and cntvoff.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Jianyong Wu <jianyong.wu@arm.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm64/kvm/hypercalls.c | 61 
>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  include/linux/arm-smccc.h   | 17 +++++++++++
>>  2 files changed, 78 insertions(+)
>> 
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hypercalls.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hypercalls.c
>> index b9d8607083eb..f7d189563f3d 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hypercalls.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hypercalls.c
>> @@ -9,6 +9,51 @@
>>  #include <kvm/arm_hypercalls.h>
>>  #include <kvm/arm_psci.h>
>> 
>> +static void kvm_ptp_get_time(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *val)
>> +{
>> +	struct system_time_snapshot systime_snapshot;
>> +	u64 cycles = ~0UL;
>> +	u32 feature;
>> +
>> +	/*
>> +	 * system time and counter value must captured in the same
>> +	 * time to keep consistency and precision.
>> +	 */
>> +	ktime_get_snapshot(&systime_snapshot);
>> +
>> +	// binding ptp_kvm clocksource to arm_arch_counter
>> +	if (systime_snapshot.cs_id != CSID_ARM_ARCH_COUNTER)
>> +		return;
>> +
>> +	val[0] = upper_32_bits(systime_snapshot.real);
>> +	val[1] = lower_32_bits(systime_snapshot.real);
> 
> What is the endianness of these values? I can't see it defined
> anywhere, and this is likely not to work if guest and hypervisor
> don't align.

Scratch that. This is all passed via registers, so the endianness
of the data is irrelevant. Please discard any comment about endianness
I made in this review.

The documentation aspect still requires to be beefed up.

Thanks,

         M.
-- 
Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-23 12:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-11  6:22 [PATCH v15 0/9] Enable ptp_kvm for arm/arm64 Jianyong Wu
2020-11-11  6:22 ` [PATCH v15 1/9] arm64: Probe for the presence of KVM hypervisor Jianyong Wu
2020-11-11  6:22 ` [PATCH v15 2/9] arm/arm64: KVM: Advertise KVM UID to guests via SMCCC Jianyong Wu
2020-11-11  6:22 ` [PATCH v15 3/9] ptp: Reorganize ptp_kvm module to make it arch-independent Jianyong Wu
2020-11-11  6:22 ` [PATCH v15 4/9] time: Add mechanism to recognize clocksource in time_get_snapshot Jianyong Wu
2020-11-11  6:22 ` [PATCH v15 5/9] clocksource: Add clocksource id for arm arch counter Jianyong Wu
2020-11-11  6:22 ` [PATCH v15 6/9] arm64/kvm: Add hypercall service for kvm ptp Jianyong Wu
2020-11-23 10:44   ` Marc Zyngier
2020-11-23 11:59     ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2020-11-24  5:11       ` Jianyong Wu
2020-11-24  5:20     ` Jianyong Wu
2020-11-24  9:07       ` Marc Zyngier
2020-11-24 10:14         ` Jianyong Wu
2020-11-11  6:22 ` [PATCH v15 7/9] ptp: arm/arm64: Enable ptp_kvm for arm/arm64 Jianyong Wu
2020-11-23 10:49   ` Marc Zyngier
2020-11-24  5:37     ` Jianyong Wu
2020-11-24  9:04       ` Marc Zyngier
2020-11-24 10:18         ` Jianyong Wu
2020-11-11  6:22 ` [PATCH v15 8/9] doc: add ptp_kvm introduction for arm64 support Jianyong Wu
2020-11-23 10:58   ` Marc Zyngier
2020-11-24  5:21     ` Jianyong Wu
2020-11-11  6:22 ` [PATCH v15 9/9] arm64: Add kvm capability check extension for ptp_kvm Jianyong Wu
2020-11-23  9:26 ` [PATCH v15 0/9] Enable ptp_kvm for arm/arm64 Jianyong Wu

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