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From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
	Andre Przywara <Andre.Przywara@arm.com>,
	Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>,
	Julien Thierry <julien.thierry.kdev@gmail.com>,
	Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>,
	kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] KVM: arm: vgic-v2: Only use the virtual state when userspace accesses pending bits
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 17:02:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <299b5f1307cff29944e5f89e307b2015@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5aa2acf8-e775-325c-0340-fa000a4e3513@arm.com>

Hi James,

On 2020-04-22 16:55, James Morse wrote:
> Hi Marc,
> 
> On 20/04/2020 11:03, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 17:48:34 +0100
>> James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> wrote:

[...]

>>> (but if user-space never actually does this, then we should do the 
>>> simplest thing)
> 
> Adding printk() to this combined patch and using 'loadvm' on the qemu
> console, I see Qemu
> writing '0xffffffff' into cpending to clear all 16 SGIs. I guess it is
> 'resetting' the
> in-kernel state to replace it with the state read from disk.
> 
> 
>> A third way would be to align on what GICv3 does, which is that 
>> ISPENDR
>> is used for both setting and clearing in one go. Given that the 
>> current
>> state it broken (and has been for some time now), I'm tempted to adopt
>> the same behaviour...
> 
>> What do you think?
> 
> I think Qemu is expecting the bank of cpending writes to clear
> whatever the kernel has
> stored, so that it can replay the new state. Ignoring the cpending
> writes means the kernel
> keeps an interrupt pending if nothing else in that 64bit group was
> set. Its not what Qemu
> expects, it looks like we'd get away with it, but I don't think we 
> should do it!
> 
> I think we should let user-space write to those WI registers, and
> clearing the SGIs should clear all sources of SGI...

I'd be happy with that. Let me rework the patch, and I'll post the 
series again
shortly.

Thanks,

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

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-22 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-17  8:33 [PATCH v2 0/6] KVM: arm: vgic fixes for 5.7 Marc Zyngier
2020-04-17  8:33 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] KVM: arm: vgic: Fix limit condition when writing to GICD_I[CS]ACTIVER Marc Zyngier
2020-04-17  8:33 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] KVM: arm: vgic: Synchronize the whole guest on GIC{D, R}_I{S, C}ACTIVER read Marc Zyngier
2020-04-17 16:26   ` [PATCH v2 2/6] KVM: arm: vgic: Synchronize the whole guest on GIC{D,R}_I{S,C}ACTIVER read André Przywara
2020-04-17  8:33 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] KVM: arm: vgic: Only use the virtual state when userspace accesses enable bits Marc Zyngier
2020-04-17 11:17   ` James Morse
2020-04-17  8:33 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] KVM: arm: vgic-v2: Only use the virtual state when userspace accesses pending bits Marc Zyngier
2020-04-17 11:22   ` James Morse
2020-04-17 12:41     ` Marc Zyngier
2020-04-17 16:48       ` James Morse
2020-04-20 10:03         ` Marc Zyngier
2020-04-22 15:55           ` James Morse
2020-04-22 16:02             ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2020-04-17  8:33 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Retire all pending LPIs on vcpu destroy Marc Zyngier
2020-04-17  8:33 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] KVM: arm64: vgic-its: Fix memory leak on the error path of vgic_add_lpi() Marc Zyngier

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