[PATCH V2 5/8] KVM: PPC: Update kvmppc_st and kvmppc_ld to use quadrants

Suraj Jitindar Singh sjitindarsingh at gmail.com
Mon Dec 10 14:58:22 AEDT 2018


The functions kvmppc_st and kvmppc_ld are used to access guest memory
from the host using a guest effective address. They do so by translating
through the process table to obtain a guest real address and then using
kvm_read_guest or kvm_write_guest to make the access with the guest real
address.

This method of access however only works for L1 guests and will give the
incorrect results for a nested guest.

We can however use the store_to_eaddr and load_from_eaddr kvmppc_ops to
perform the access for a nested guesti (and a L1 guest). So attempt this
method first and fall back to the old method if this fails and we aren't
running a nested guest.

At this stage there is no fall back method to perform the access for a
nested guest and this is left as a future improvement. For now we will
return to the nested guest and rely on the fact that a translation
should be faulted in before retrying the access.

Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh at gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
index 95859c53a5cd..cb029fcab404 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
@@ -331,10 +331,17 @@ int kvmppc_st(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, ulong *eaddr, int size, void *ptr,
 {
 	ulong mp_pa = vcpu->arch.magic_page_pa & KVM_PAM & PAGE_MASK;
 	struct kvmppc_pte pte;
-	int r;
+	int r = -EINVAL;
 
 	vcpu->stat.st++;
 
+	if (vcpu->kvm->arch.kvm_ops && vcpu->kvm->arch.kvm_ops->store_to_eaddr)
+		r = vcpu->kvm->arch.kvm_ops->store_to_eaddr(vcpu, eaddr, ptr,
+							    size);
+
+	if ((!r) || (r == -EAGAIN))
+		return r;
+
 	r = kvmppc_xlate(vcpu, *eaddr, data ? XLATE_DATA : XLATE_INST,
 			 XLATE_WRITE, &pte);
 	if (r < 0)
@@ -367,10 +374,17 @@ int kvmppc_ld(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, ulong *eaddr, int size, void *ptr,
 {
 	ulong mp_pa = vcpu->arch.magic_page_pa & KVM_PAM & PAGE_MASK;
 	struct kvmppc_pte pte;
-	int rc;
+	int rc = -EINVAL;
 
 	vcpu->stat.ld++;
 
+	if (vcpu->kvm->arch.kvm_ops && vcpu->kvm->arch.kvm_ops->load_from_eaddr)
+		rc = vcpu->kvm->arch.kvm_ops->load_from_eaddr(vcpu, eaddr, ptr,
+							      size);
+
+	if ((!rc) || (rc == -EAGAIN))
+		return rc;
+
 	rc = kvmppc_xlate(vcpu, *eaddr, data ? XLATE_DATA : XLATE_INST,
 			  XLATE_READ, &pte);
 	if (rc)
-- 
2.13.6



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