[PATCH 17/19] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: add get/set accessors for the VP XIVE state

[David Gibson]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 12:58:54PM +0100, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> On 2/5/19 6:33 AM, David Gibson wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 07:57:26PM +0100, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> >> On 2/4/19 6:26 AM, David Gibson wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 08:10:04PM +0100, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> >>>> At a VCPU level, the state of the thread context interrupt management
> >>>> registers needs to be collected. These registers are cached under the
> >>>> 'xive_saved_state.w01' field of the VCPU when the VPCU context is
> >>>> pulled from the HW thread. An OPAL call retrieves the backup of the
> >>>> IPB register in the NVT structure and merges it in the KVM state.
> >>>>
> >>>> The structures of the interface between QEMU and KVM provisions some
> >>>> extra room (two u64) for further extensions if more state needs to be
> >>>> transferred back to QEMU.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg at kaod.org>
> >>>> ---
> >>>>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_ppc.h    |  5 ++
> >>>>  arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h   |  2 +
> >>>>  arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s.c             | 24 +++++++++
> >>>>  arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_xive_native.c | 78 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>>>  4 files changed, 109 insertions(+)
> >>>>
> >>>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_ppc.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_ppc.h
> >>>> index 4cc897039485..49c488af168c 100644
> >>>> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_ppc.h
> >>>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_ppc.h
> >>>> @@ -270,6 +270,7 @@ union kvmppc_one_reg {
> >>>>  		u64	addr;
> >>>>  		u64	length;
> >>>>  	}	vpaval;
> >>>> +	u64	xive_timaval[4];
> >>>>  };
> >>>>  
> >>>>  struct kvmppc_ops {
> >>>> @@ -603,6 +604,8 @@ extern void kvmppc_xive_native_cleanup_vcpu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
> >>>>  extern void kvmppc_xive_native_init_module(void);
> >>>>  extern void kvmppc_xive_native_exit_module(void);
> >>>>  extern int kvmppc_xive_native_hcall(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 cmd);
> >>>> +extern int kvmppc_xive_native_get_vp(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, union kvmppc_one_reg *val);
> >>>> +extern int kvmppc_xive_native_set_vp(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, union kvmppc_one_reg *val);
> >>>>  
> >>>>  #else
> >>>>  static inline int kvmppc_xive_set_xive(struct kvm *kvm, u32 irq, u32 server,
> >>>> @@ -637,6 +640,8 @@ static inline void kvmppc_xive_native_init_module(void) { }
> >>>>  static inline void kvmppc_xive_native_exit_module(void) { }
> >>>>  static inline int kvmppc_xive_native_hcall(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 cmd)
> >>>>  	{ return 0; }
> >>>> +static inline int kvmppc_xive_native_get_vp(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, union kvmppc_one_reg *val) { return 0; }
> >>>> +static inline int kvmppc_xive_native_set_vp(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, union kvmppc_one_reg *val) { return -ENOENT; }
> >>>
> >>> IIRC "VP" is the old name for "TCTX".  Since we're using tctx in the
> >>> rest of the XIVE code, can we use it here as well.
> >>
> >> OK. The state we are getting or setting is indeed related to the thread 
> >> interrupt  context registers. 
> >>
> >> The name VP is related to an identifier to some interrupt context under 
> >> OPAL (NVT in HW to be precise).
> > 
> > Oh, sorry, "NVT" was the name I was looking for, not "TCTX".  But in
> > any case, please lets standardize on one.
> 
> There is some confusion in the naming for :
> 
>  - VP    Virtual Processor (XIVE 1)
>  - VPD   Virtual Processor Descriptor (XIVE 1)
>  - TCTX  Thread interrupt context registers
>  - NVT   Notify Virtual Target. Former VP. 
>  - NVTS  Notify Virtual Target Structure. Where the TCTX regs are cached.
> 
> 
> I am fine with using NVT because this is indeed the name of the XIVE 
> structure where the HW caches the thread interrupt context registers.
> 
> But the XIVE native layer and the XICS-over-XIVE KVM device use the
> name VP (the old one). I don't think we want to change these now.

Ah, right.  It now occurs to me that the place I've already seen NVT
used is in the qemu code, whereas this is kernel.  In that case
sticking to VP here makes sense.

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