[PATCH kernel] KVM: PPC: Fix hardware and emulated TCE tables matching

[Paul Mackerras]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 06:42:58PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> When attaching a hardware table to LIOBN in KVM, we match table parameters
> such as page size, table offset and table size. However the tables are
> created via very different paths - VFIO and KVM - and the VFIO path goes
> through the platform code which has minimum TCE page size requirement
> (which is 4K but since we allocate memory by pages and cannot avoid
> alignment anyway, we align to 64k pages for powernv_defconfig).
> 
> So when we match the tables, one might be bigger that the other which
> means the hardware table cannot get attached to LIOBN and DMA mapping
> fails.
> 
> This removes the table size alignment from the guest visible table.
> This does not affect the memory allocation which is still aligned -
> kvmppc_tce_pages() takes care of this.
> 
> This relaxes the check we do when attaching tables to allow the hardware
> table be bigger than the guest visible table.
> 
> Ideally we want the KVM table to cover the same space as the hardware
> table does but since the hardware table may use multiple levels, and
> all levels must use the same table size (IODA2 design), the area it can
> actually cover might get very different from the window size which
> the guest requested, even though the guest won't map it all.
> 
> Fixes: ca1fc489cf "KVM: PPC: Book3S: Allow backing bigger guest IOMMU pages with smaller physical pages"
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru>

Thanks, patch applied to my kvm-ppc-next branch.

Paul.