Re: [PATCH 12/13] arm64: Add a capability for FEAT_EVC

[Oliver Upton]

On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 11:02 AM Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Oliver,
>
> Thanks for having a look.
>
> On Mon, 09 Aug 2021 17:30:45 +0100,
> Oliver Upton <oupton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Marc,
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 8:48 AM Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Add a new capability to detect the Enhanced Counter Virtualization
> > > feature (FEAT_EVC).
> > >
> >
> > s/FEAT_EVC/FEAT_ECV/g
>
> I'm the knig fo tpyoes :).
>
> >
> > > Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 10 ++++++++++
> > >  arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps       |  1 +
> > >  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
> > > index 0ead8bfedf20..9c2ce5408811 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
> > > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
> > > @@ -1899,6 +1899,16 @@ static const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities arm64_features[] = {
> > >                 .sign = FTR_UNSIGNED,
> > >                 .min_field_value = 1,
> > >         },
> > > +       {
> > > +               .desc = "Enhanced counter virtualization",
> > > +               .capability = ARM64_HAS_ECV,
> > > +               .type = ARM64_CPUCAP_SYSTEM_FEATURE,
> > > +               .matches = has_cpuid_feature,
> > > +               .sys_reg = SYS_ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1,
> > > +               .field_pos = ID_AA64MMFR0_ECV_SHIFT,
> > > +               .sign = FTR_UNSIGNED,
> > > +               .min_field_value = 1,
> > > +       },
> >
> > Per one of your other patches in the series, it sounds like userspace
> > access to the self-synchronized registers hasn't been settled yet.
> > However, if/when available to userspace, should this cpufeature map to
> > an ELF HWCAP?
>
> We can't prevent the access to userspace, unless we also trap
> cntvct_el0 and cntfreq_el0. Which we try not to do. But you are indeed
> correct, we probably have a HWCAP if we decide to advertise it to
> userspace.
>
> > Also, w.r.t. my series I have out for ECV in KVM. All the controls
> > used in EL2 depend on ECV=0x2. I agree that ECV=0x1 needs a cpufeature
> > bit, but what about EL2's use case?
>
> My idea was to have a ARM64_HAS_ECV2 to capture the EL2 extensions
> with min_field_value=2.

This SGTM. I imagine with your HWCAP patch you will be passing through
ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1.ECV to userspace too. Dunno if we should clamp to 1
or let userspace see ECV=2 when we enumerate the second cpufeature.
Definitely not worthy of a HWCAP, though.

--
Thanks,
Oliver


> > Besides the typo:
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Oliver Upton <oupton@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks,
>
>         M.
>
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