Re: [PATCH v3 07/12] KVM: arm64: selftests: Add support to get the vcpuid from MPIDR_EL1

[Andrew Jones]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 11:48:12PM +0000, Oliver Upton wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 09:14:07PM +0000, Raghavendra Rao Ananta wrote:
> > At times, such as when in the interrupt handler, the guest wants to
> > get the vCPU-id that it's running on. As a result, introduce
> > get_vcpuid() that parses the MPIDR_EL1 and returns the vcpuid to the
> > requested caller.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  .../selftests/kvm/include/aarch64/processor.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/aarch64/processor.h b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/aarch64/processor.h
> > index c35bb7b8e870..8b372cd427da 100644
> > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/aarch64/processor.h
> > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/aarch64/processor.h
> > @@ -251,4 +251,23 @@ static inline void local_irq_disable(void)
> >  	asm volatile("msr daifset, #3" : : : "memory");
> >  }
> >  
> > +#define MPIDR_LEVEL_BITS 8
> > +#define MPIDR_LEVEL_SHIFT(level) (MPIDR_LEVEL_BITS * level)
> > +#define MPIDR_LEVEL_MASK ((1 << MPIDR_LEVEL_BITS) - 1)
> > +#define MPIDR_AFFINITY_LEVEL(mpidr, level) \
> > +	((mpidr >> MPIDR_LEVEL_SHIFT(level)) & MPIDR_LEVEL_MASK)
> > +
> > +static inline uint32_t get_vcpuid(void)
> > +{
> > +	uint32_t vcpuid = 0;
> > +	uint64_t mpidr = read_sysreg(mpidr_el1);
> > +
> > +	/* KVM limits only 16 vCPUs at level 0 */
> > +	vcpuid = mpidr & 0x0f;
> > +	vcpuid |= MPIDR_AFFINITY_LEVEL(mpidr, 1) << 4;
> > +	vcpuid |= MPIDR_AFFINITY_LEVEL(mpidr, 2) << 12;
> > +
> > +	return vcpuid;
> > +}
> 
> Are we guaranteed that KVM will always compose vCPU IDs the same way? I
> do not believe this is guaranteed ABI.

I don't believe we are. At least in QEMU we take pains to avoid that
assumption.

> 
> For the base case, you could pass the vCPU ID as an arg to the guest
> function.
> 
> I do agree that finding the vCPU ID is a bit more challenging in an
> interrupt context. Maybe use a ucall to ask userspace? But of course,
> every test implements its own run loop, so its yet another case that
> tests need to handle.
> 
> Or, you could allocate an array at runtime of length KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPUS
> (use the KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION ioctl to get the value). Once all vCPUs are
> instantiated, iterate over them from userspace to populate the {MPIDR,
> VCPU_ID} map. You'd need to guarantee that callers initialize the vGIC
> *after* adding vCPUs to the guest.

I agree with this approach. It may even make sense to create a common
function that returns a {cpu_id,vcpu_index} map for other tests to use.

Thanks,
drew

> 
> --
> Thanks,
> Oliver
> 
> >  #endif /* SELFTEST_KVM_PROCESSOR_H */
> > -- 
> > 2.33.0.153.gba50c8fa24-goog
> > 
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