Re: [PATCH v4 09/18] KVM: arm64: selftests: Add guest support to get the vcpuid

[Oliver Upton]

On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 12:59 PM Raghavendra Rao Ananta
<rananta@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 10:09 PM Oliver Upton <oupton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 09, 2021 at 01:38:09AM +0000, Raghavendra Rao Ananta wrote:
> > > At times, such as when in the interrupt handler, the guest wants
> > > to get the vcpuid that it's running on. As a result, introduce
> > > get_vcpuid() that returns the vcpuid of the calling vcpu. At its
> > > backend, the VMM prepares a map of vcpuid and mpidr during VM
> > > initialization and exports the map to the guest for it to read.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  .../selftests/kvm/include/aarch64/processor.h |  3 ++
> > >  .../selftests/kvm/lib/aarch64/processor.c     | 46 +++++++++++++++++++
> > >  2 files changed, 49 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/aarch64/processor.h b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/aarch64/processor.h
> > > index b6088c3c67a3..150f63101f4c 100644
> > > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/aarch64/processor.h
> > > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/aarch64/processor.h
> > > @@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ void vm_install_exception_handler(struct kvm_vm *vm,
> > >               int vector, handler_fn handler);
> > >  void vm_install_sync_handler(struct kvm_vm *vm,
> > >               int vector, int ec, handler_fn handler);
> > > +void vm_vcpuid_map_init(struct kvm_vm *vm);
> > >
> > >  static inline void cpu_relax(void)
> > >  {
> > > @@ -194,4 +195,6 @@ static inline void local_irq_disable(void)
> > >       asm volatile("msr daifset, #3" : : : "memory");
> > >  }
> > >
> > > +int get_vcpuid(void);
> > > +
> >
> > I believe both of these functions could use some documentation. The
> > former has implicit ordering requirements (can only be called after all
> > vCPUs are created) and the latter can only be used within a guest.
> >
> > >  #endif /* SELFTEST_KVM_PROCESSOR_H */
> > > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/aarch64/processor.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/aarch64/processor.c
> > > index 632b74d6b3ca..9844b62227b1 100644
> > > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/aarch64/processor.c
> > > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/aarch64/processor.c
> > > @@ -13,9 +13,17 @@
> > >  #include "processor.h"
> > >
> > >  #define DEFAULT_ARM64_GUEST_STACK_VADDR_MIN  0xac0000
> > > +#define VM_VCPUID_MAP_INVAL                  -1
> > >
> > >  static vm_vaddr_t exception_handlers;
> > >
> > > +struct vm_vcpuid_map {
> > > +     uint64_t mpidr;
> > > +     int vcpuid;
> > > +};
> > > +
> > > +static struct vm_vcpuid_map vcpuid_map[KVM_MAX_VCPUS];
> > > +
> >
> > Hmm.
> >
> > I'm not too big of a fan that the KVM_MAX_VCPUS macro is defined in the
> > KVM selftests. Really, userspace should discover the limit from the
> > kernel. Especially when we want to write tests that test behavior at
> > KVM's limit.
> >
> > That being said, there are more instances of these static allocations in
> > the selftests code, so you aren't to be blamed.
> >
> > Related: commit 074c82c8f7cf ("kvm: x86: Increase MAX_VCPUS to 1024")
> > has raised this limit.
> >
> I'm not a fan of static allocations either, but the fact that
> sync_global_to_guest() doesn't have a size argument (yet), makes me
> want to take a shorter route. Anyway, if you want I can allocate it
> dynamically and copy it to the guest's memory by hand, or come up with
> a utility wrapper while I'm at it.
> (Just wanted to make sure we are not over-engineering our needs here).

No, please don't worry about it in your series. I'm just openly
whining is all :-)

> > >  static uint64_t page_align(struct kvm_vm *vm, uint64_t v)
> > >  {
> > >       return (v + vm->page_size) & ~(vm->page_size - 1);
> > > @@ -426,3 +434,41 @@ void vm_install_exception_handler(struct kvm_vm *vm, int vector,
> > >       assert(vector < VECTOR_NUM);
> > >       handlers->exception_handlers[vector][0] = handler;
> > >  }
> > > +
> > > +void vm_vcpuid_map_init(struct kvm_vm *vm)
> > > +{
> > > +     int i = 0;
> > > +     struct vcpu *vcpu;
> > > +     struct vm_vcpuid_map *map;
> > > +
> > > +     list_for_each_entry(vcpu, &vm->vcpus, list) {
> > > +             map = &vcpuid_map[i++];
> > > +             map->vcpuid = vcpu->id;
> > > +             get_reg(vm, vcpu->id,
> > > +                     ARM64_SYS_KVM_REG(SYS_MPIDR_EL1), &map->mpidr);
> > > +             map->mpidr &= MPIDR_HWID_BITMASK;
> > > +     }
> > > +
> > > +     if (i < KVM_MAX_VCPUS)
> > > +             vcpuid_map[i].vcpuid = VM_VCPUID_MAP_INVAL;
> > > +
> > > +     sync_global_to_guest(vm, vcpuid_map);
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +int get_vcpuid(void)
> >
> > nit: guest_get_vcpuid()
> >
> Sounds nice. Since we have a lot of guest utility functions now, I'm
> fancying a world where we prefix guest_ with all of them to avoid
> confusion.
>

Sounds good to me!

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Thanks,
Oliver