[PATCH v2] powerpc/XIVE: SVM: share the event-queue page with the Hypervisor.

Cédric Le Goater clg at kaod.org
Thu Mar 26 19:45:52 AEDT 2020


On 3/26/20 9:38 AM, Ram Pai wrote:
> XIVE interrupt controller use an Event Queue (EQ) to enqueue event

The XIVE interrupt controller uses ... (my bad)

> notifications when an exception occurs. The EQ is a single memory page
> provided by the O/S defining a circular buffer, one per server and
> priority couple.
> 
> On baremetal, the EQ page is configured with an OPAL call. On pseries,
> an extra hop is necessary and the guest OS uses the hcall
> H_INT_SET_QUEUE_CONFIG to configure the XIVE interrupt controller.
> 
> The XIVE controller being Hypervisor privileged, it will not be allowed
> to enqueue event notifications for a Secure VM unless the EQ pages are
> shared by the Secure VM.
> 
> Hypervisor/Ultravisor still requires support for the TIMA and ESB page
> fault handlers. Until this is complete, QEMU can use the emulated XIVE
> device for Secure VMs, option "kernel_irqchip=off" on the QEMU pseries
> machine.
> 
> Cc: kvm-ppc at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
> Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman at linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Michael Anderson <andmike at linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus at ozlabs.org>
> Cc: Greg Kurz <groug at kaod.org>
> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg at fr.ibm.com>

clg at fr.ibm.com is insecure. Please use clg at kaod.org.

> Cc: David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram at us.ibm.com>

Reviewed-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg at kaod.org>

Thanks,

C.

> 
> v2: better description of the patch from Cedric.
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/spapr.c | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/spapr.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/spapr.c
> index 55dc61c..608b52f 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/spapr.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/spapr.c
> @@ -26,6 +26,8 @@
>  #include <asm/xive.h>
>  #include <asm/xive-regs.h>
>  #include <asm/hvcall.h>
> +#include <asm/svm.h>
> +#include <asm/ultravisor.h>
> 
>  #include "xive-internal.h"
> 
> @@ -501,6 +503,9 @@ static int xive_spapr_configure_queue(u32 target, struct xive_q *q, u8 prio,
>  		rc = -EIO;
>  	} else {
>  		q->qpage = qpage;
> +		if (is_secure_guest())
> +			uv_share_page(PHYS_PFN(qpage_phys),
> +					1 << xive_alloc_order(order));
>  	}
>  fail:
>  	return rc;
> @@ -534,6 +539,8 @@ static void xive_spapr_cleanup_queue(unsigned int cpu, struct xive_cpu *xc,
>  		       hw_cpu, prio);
> 
>  	alloc_order = xive_alloc_order(xive_queue_shift);
> +	if (is_secure_guest())
> +		uv_unshare_page(PHYS_PFN(__pa(q->qpage)), 1 << alloc_order);
>  	free_pages((unsigned long)q->qpage, alloc_order);
>  	q->qpage = NULL;
>  }
> 



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