Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/2] arm_gicv3_kvm: kvm_dist_get/put: skip the registers banked by GICR

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On 31 May 2018 at 04:15, Shannon Zhao <zhaoshenglong@huawei.com> wrote:
> While we skip the GIC_INTERNAL irqs, we don't change the register offset
> accordingly. This will overlap the GICR registers value and leave the
> last GIC_INTERNAL irq's registers out of update.
>
> Fix this by skipping the registers banked by GICR.
>
> Also for migration compatibility if the migration source (old version
> qemu) doesn't send gicd_no_migration_shift_bug = 1 to destination, then
> we shift the data of PPI to get the right data for SPI.
>
> Fixes: 367b9f527becdd20ddf116e17a3c0c2bbc486920
> Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
> Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao <zhaoshenglong@huawei.com>

> +    /*
> +     * While this new version QEMU doesn't have this kind of bug as we fix it,
> +     * so it's need to set the flag to true to indicate that and it's neccessary
> +     * for next migration to work from this new version QEMU.
> +     */
> +    cs->gicd_no_migration_shift_bug = true;

Nice catch; I would have forgotten that we needed to do this...


>
> +    /* For the KVM GICv3, affinity routing is always enabled, and the
> +     * GICD_IGROUPR0/GICD_IGRPMODR0/GICD_ISENABLER0/GICD_ISPENDR0/
> +     * GICD_ISACTIVER0 registers are always RAZ/WI. The corresponding
> +     * functionality is replaced by the GICR registers. It doesn't need to sync
> +     * them. So it should increase the offset to skip GIC_INTERNAL irqs.
> +     * This matches the for_each_dist_irq_reg() macro which also skips the
> +     * first GIC_INTERNAL irqs.
> +     */
> +    offset += (GIC_INTERNAL * 1) / 8;
> +    if (clroffset != 0) {
> +        clroffset += (1 * sizeof(uint32_t));
> +    }
> +

Shouldn't we be adding the same thing to clroffset that we add to offset ?

Otherwise
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

thanks
-- PMM