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From: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: laurent@vivier.eu, alex.bennee@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/33] linux-user: Improve host and guest page size handling
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2023 18:05:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b7c87304-a5af-ce35-7bb7-327b9ec619e4@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230901022331.115247-1-richard.henderson@linaro.org>

Ping.

r~

On 8/31/23 19:22, Richard Henderson wrote:
> Based-on: 20230829220228.928506-1-richard.henderson@linaro.org
> ("[PATCH v5 00/20] linux-user: Implement VDSOs")
> 
> Changes for v2:
>    * Minor adjustments to bsd-user.
>    * Update docs for deprecation.
>    * Philippe's r-b.
> 
> Blurb from v1:
> 
> While working on mmap issues for 8.1, I noticed a lot of corner
> cases of host != guest page size that we implement poorly.
> This seems to be particularly visible on Apple M1 with 16k pages,
> more so than Power with 64k pages for some reason.
> 
> Objective 1 is to deprecate and (essentially) disable the -p option.
> 
> The effect of -p is apparently confusing, so much so that our own
> testsuite misuses it.  One cannot really change the host page size,
> and pretending otherwise means that we don't treat the host memory
> system correctly, and stuff breaks.
> 
> I have not yet done the same work for bsd-user.
> 
> Objective 2 is to allow the guest page size to change to match the host.
> 
> There are corner cases of host != guest page size will fail in odd ways.
> For case of host > guest page size, the issues could be solved with
> softmmu, allowing a non-linear mapping between host and guest addresses
> and also disconnecting host and guest page permissions.
> 
> However, host < guest page has issues with SIGBUS which I believe to be
> totally unfixable.  At minimum one would need to monitor changes to all
> files mapped in the address space, but I'm sure there is much more.
> 
> But as always the best behaviour is obtained when the host and guest
> page sizes match -- there are no corner cases to contend with.
> 
> There are a set of guests which can be configured to use multiple page
> sizes, and therefore software developed for those guests (usually) does
> not hard-code a particular page size.  For those, we can allow the
> page size to vary and let the guest match the host.
> 
> I have only changed aarch64, alpha and ppc guests so far, as those
> are both easy to test and, especially for the case of alpha's default
> 8k page size, prone to failure.
> 
> 
> r~
> 
> 
> Richard Henderson (33):
>    accel/tcg: Remove qemu_host_page_size from page_protect/page_unprotect
>    linux-user: Adjust SVr4 NULL page mapping
>    linux-user: Remove qemu_host_page_{size,mask} in probe_guest_base
>    linux-user: Remove qemu_host_page_size from create_elf_tables
>    linux-user/hppa: Simplify init_guest_commpage
>    linux-user/nios2: Remove qemu_host_page_size from init_guest_commpage
>    linux-user/arm: Remove qemu_host_page_size from init_guest_commpage
>    linux-user: Remove qemu_host_page_{size,mask} from mmap.c
>    linux-user: Remove REAL_HOST_PAGE_ALIGN from mmap.c
>    linux-user: Remove HOST_PAGE_ALIGN from mmap.c
>    migration: Remove qemu_host_page_size
>    hw/tpm: Remove HOST_PAGE_ALIGN from tpm_ppi_init
>    softmmu/physmem: Remove qemu_host_page_size
>    softmmu/physmem: Remove HOST_PAGE_ALIGN
>    linux-user: Remove qemu_host_page_size from main
>    linux-user: Split out target_mmap__locked
>    linux-user: Move some mmap checks outside the lock
>    linux-user: Fix sub-host-page mmap
>    linux-user: Split out mmap_end
>    linux-user: Do early mmap placement only for reserved_va
>    linux-user: Split out mmap_h_eq_g
>    linux-user: Split out mmap_h_lt_g
>    linux-user: Split out mmap_h_gt_g
>    tests/tcg: Remove run-test-mmap-*
>    tests/tcg: Extend file in linux-madvise.c
>    *-user: Deprecate and disable -p pagesize
>    cpu: Remove page_size_init
>    accel/tcg: Disconnect TargetPageDataNode from page size
>    linux-user: Allow TARGET_PAGE_BITS_VARY
>    target/arm: Enable TARGET_PAGE_BITS_VARY for AArch64 user-only
>    linux-user: Bound mmap_min_addr by host page size
>    target/ppc: Enable TARGET_PAGE_BITS_VARY for user-only
>    target/alpha: Enable TARGET_PAGE_BITS_VARY for user-only
> 
>   docs/about/deprecated.rst                 |   7 +
>   docs/user/main.rst                        |   3 -
>   bsd-user/qemu.h                           |   7 +
>   include/exec/cpu-common.h                 |   7 -
>   include/hw/core/cpu.h                     |   2 -
>   target/alpha/cpu-param.h                  |  16 +-
>   target/arm/cpu-param.h                    |   6 +-
>   target/ppc/cpu-param.h                    |   9 +-
>   accel/tcg/translate-all.c                 |   1 -
>   accel/tcg/user-exec.c                     |  31 +-
>   bsd-user/main.c                           |  21 +-
>   cpu.c                                     |  13 -
>   hw/tpm/tpm_ppi.c                          |   3 +-
>   linux-user/elfload.c                      |  67 +-
>   linux-user/main.c                         |  33 +-
>   linux-user/mmap.c                         | 714 +++++++++++++---------
>   migration/ram.c                           |  22 +-
>   softmmu/physmem.c                         |  17 +-
>   softmmu/vl.c                              |   1 -
>   target/arm/cpu.c                          |  51 +-
>   tests/tcg/multiarch/linux/linux-madvise.c |   2 +
>   tests/tcg/alpha/Makefile.target           |   3 -
>   tests/tcg/arm/Makefile.target             |   3 -
>   tests/tcg/hppa/Makefile.target            |   3 -
>   tests/tcg/i386/Makefile.target            |   3 -
>   tests/tcg/m68k/Makefile.target            |   3 -
>   tests/tcg/multiarch/Makefile.target       |   9 -
>   tests/tcg/ppc/Makefile.target             |  12 -
>   tests/tcg/sh4/Makefile.target             |   3 -
>   tests/tcg/sparc64/Makefile.target         |   6 -
>   30 files changed, 626 insertions(+), 452 deletions(-)
>   delete mode 100644 tests/tcg/ppc/Makefile.target
>   delete mode 100644 tests/tcg/sparc64/Makefile.target
> 



      parent reply	other threads:[~2023-09-29  1:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-01  2:22 [PATCH v2 00/33] linux-user: Improve host and guest page size handling Richard Henderson
2023-09-01  2:22 ` [PATCH v2 01/33] accel/tcg: Remove qemu_host_page_size from page_protect/page_unprotect Richard Henderson
2023-09-01  2:23 ` [PATCH v2 02/33] linux-user: Adjust SVr4 NULL page mapping Richard Henderson
2023-09-01  2:23 ` [PATCH v2 03/33] linux-user: Remove qemu_host_page_{size, mask} in probe_guest_base Richard Henderson
2023-09-01  2:23 ` [PATCH v2 04/33] linux-user: Remove qemu_host_page_size from create_elf_tables Richard Henderson
2023-09-01  2:23 ` [PATCH v2 05/33] linux-user/hppa: Simplify init_guest_commpage Richard Henderson
2023-09-01  2:23 ` [PATCH v2 06/33] linux-user/nios2: Remove qemu_host_page_size from init_guest_commpage Richard Henderson
2023-09-01  2:23 ` [PATCH v2 07/33] linux-user/arm: " Richard Henderson
2023-09-01  2:23 ` [PATCH v2 08/33] linux-user: Remove qemu_host_page_{size, mask} from mmap.c Richard Henderson
2023-09-01  2:23 ` [PATCH v2 09/33] linux-user: Remove REAL_HOST_PAGE_ALIGN " Richard Henderson
2023-09-01  2:23 ` [PATCH v2 10/33] linux-user: Remove HOST_PAGE_ALIGN " Richard Henderson
2023-09-01  2:23 ` [PATCH v2 11/33] migration: Remove qemu_host_page_size Richard Henderson
2023-09-01  2:23 ` [PATCH v2 12/33] hw/tpm: Remove HOST_PAGE_ALIGN from tpm_ppi_init Richard Henderson
2023-09-01  2:23 ` [PATCH v2 13/33] softmmu/physmem: Remove qemu_host_page_size Richard Henderson
2023-09-01  2:23 ` [PATCH v2 14/33] softmmu/physmem: Remove HOST_PAGE_ALIGN Richard Henderson
2023-09-01  2:23 ` [PATCH v2 15/33] linux-user: Remove qemu_host_page_size from main Richard Henderson
2023-09-01  2:23 ` [PATCH v2 16/33] linux-user: Split out target_mmap__locked Richard Henderson
2023-09-01  2:23 ` [PATCH v2 17/33] linux-user: Move some mmap checks outside the lock Richard Henderson
2023-09-01  2:23 ` [PATCH v2 18/33] linux-user: Fix sub-host-page mmap Richard Henderson
2023-09-01  2:23 ` [PATCH v2 19/33] linux-user: Split out mmap_end Richard Henderson
2023-09-01  2:23 ` [PATCH v2 20/33] linux-user: Do early mmap placement only for reserved_va Richard Henderson
2023-09-01  2:23 ` [PATCH v2 21/33] linux-user: Split out mmap_h_eq_g Richard Henderson
2023-09-01  2:23 ` [PATCH v2 22/33] linux-user: Split out mmap_h_lt_g Richard Henderson
2023-09-01  2:23 ` [PATCH v2 23/33] linux-user: Split out mmap_h_gt_g Richard Henderson
2023-09-01  2:23 ` [PATCH v2 24/33] tests/tcg: Remove run-test-mmap-* Richard Henderson
2023-09-01  2:23 ` [PATCH v2 25/33] tests/tcg: Extend file in linux-madvise.c Richard Henderson
2023-09-01  2:23 ` [PATCH v2 26/33] *-user: Deprecate and disable -p pagesize Richard Henderson
2023-09-01  2:26   ` Warner Losh
2023-09-01  2:23 ` [PATCH v2 27/33] cpu: Remove page_size_init Richard Henderson
2023-09-01  2:31   ` Warner Losh
2023-09-01  2:23 ` [PATCH v2 28/33] accel/tcg: Disconnect TargetPageDataNode from page size Richard Henderson
2023-09-01  2:23 ` [PATCH v2 29/33] linux-user: Allow TARGET_PAGE_BITS_VARY Richard Henderson
2023-09-01  2:23 ` [PATCH v2 30/33] target/arm: Enable TARGET_PAGE_BITS_VARY for AArch64 user-only Richard Henderson
2023-09-01  2:23 ` [PATCH v2 31/33] linux-user: Bound mmap_min_addr by host page size Richard Henderson
2023-09-01  2:23 ` [PATCH v2 32/33] target/ppc: Enable TARGET_PAGE_BITS_VARY for user-only Richard Henderson
2023-09-01  2:23 ` [PATCH v2 33/33] target/alpha: " Richard Henderson
2023-09-29  1:05 ` Richard Henderson [this message]

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