Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 4/6] s390x/tcg: Flush the TLB of all CPUs on SSKE and RRBE

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> writes:

> Whenever we modify a storage key, we should flush the TLBs of all CPUs,
> so the MMU fault handling code can properly consider the changed storage
> key (to e.g., properly set the reference and change bit on the next
> accesses).
>
> These functions are barely used in modern Linux guests, so the performance
> implications are neglectable for now.
>
> This is a preparation for better reference and change bit handling for
> TCG, which will require more MMU changes.
>
> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>

> ---
>  target/s390x/mem_helper.c | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/target/s390x/mem_helper.c b/target/s390x/mem_helper.c
> index 29d9eaa5b7..91ba2e03d9 100644
> --- a/target/s390x/mem_helper.c
> +++ b/target/s390x/mem_helper.c
> @@ -1815,6 +1815,11 @@ void HELPER(sske)(CPUS390XState *env, uint64_t r1, uint64_t r2)
>
>      key = (uint8_t) r1;
>      skeyclass->set_skeys(ss, addr / TARGET_PAGE_SIZE, 1, &key);
> +   /*
> +    * As we can only flush by virtual address and not all the entries
> +    * that point to a physical address we have to flush the whole TLB.
> +    */
> +    tlb_flush_all_cpus_synced(env_cpu(env));
>  }
>
>  /* reset reference bit extended */
> @@ -1843,6 +1848,11 @@ uint32_t HELPER(rrbe)(CPUS390XState *env, uint64_t r2)
>      if (skeyclass->set_skeys(ss, r2 / TARGET_PAGE_SIZE, 1, &key)) {
>          return 0;
>      }
> +   /*
> +    * As we can only flush by virtual address and not all the entries
> +    * that point to a physical address we have to flush the whole TLB.
> +    */
> +    tlb_flush_all_cpus_synced(env_cpu(env));
>
>      /*
>       * cc


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Alex Bennée