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[5/6,v6] kvm: booke: clear host tlb reference flag on guest tlb invalidation

Message ID 1379651122-26078-1-git-send-email-Bharat.Bhushan@freescale.com (mailing list archive)
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Bharat Bhushan Sept. 20, 2013, 4:25 a.m. UTC
On booke, "struct tlbe_ref" contains host tlb mapping information
(pfn: for guest-pfn to pfn, flags: attribute associated with this mapping)
for a guest tlb entry. So when a guest creates a TLB entry then
"struct tlbe_ref" is set to point to valid "pfn" and set attributes in
"flags" field of the above said structure. When a guest TLB entry is
invalidated then flags field of corresponding "struct tlbe_ref" is
updated to point that this is no more valid, also we selectively clear
some other attribute bits, example: if E500_TLB_BITMAP was set then we clear
E500_TLB_BITMAP, if E500_TLB_TLB0 is set then we clear this.

Ideally we should clear complete "flags" as this entry is invalid and does not
have anything to re-used. The other part of the problem is that when we use
the same entry again then also we do not clear (started doing or-ing etc).

So far it was working because the selectively clearing mentioned above
actually clears "flags" what was set during TLB mapping. But the problem
starts coming when we add more attributes to this then we need to selectively
clear them and which is not needed.

This patch we do both
        - Clear "flags" when invalidating;
        - Clear "flags" when reusing same entry later

Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@freescale.com>
---
v5->v6
 - Fix flag clearing comment

 arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu_host.c |   16 ++++++++--------
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Comments

Scott Wood Sept. 20, 2013, 6:50 p.m. UTC | #1
On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 09:55 +0530, Bharat Bhushan wrote:
> On booke, "struct tlbe_ref" contains host tlb mapping information
> (pfn: for guest-pfn to pfn, flags: attribute associated with this mapping)
> for a guest tlb entry. So when a guest creates a TLB entry then
> "struct tlbe_ref" is set to point to valid "pfn" and set attributes in
> "flags" field of the above said structure. When a guest TLB entry is
> invalidated then flags field of corresponding "struct tlbe_ref" is
> updated to point that this is no more valid, also we selectively clear
> some other attribute bits, example: if E500_TLB_BITMAP was set then we clear
> E500_TLB_BITMAP, if E500_TLB_TLB0 is set then we clear this.
> 
> Ideally we should clear complete "flags" as this entry is invalid and does not
> have anything to re-used. The other part of the problem is that when we use
> the same entry again then also we do not clear (started doing or-ing etc).
> 
> So far it was working because the selectively clearing mentioned above
> actually clears "flags" what was set during TLB mapping. But the problem
> starts coming when we add more attributes to this then we need to selectively
> clear them and which is not needed.
> 
> This patch we do both
>         - Clear "flags" when invalidating;
>         - Clear "flags" when reusing same entry later
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@freescale.com>
> ---
> v5->v6
>  - Fix flag clearing comment

The changes between v5 and v6 are not just about comments...

> 
>  arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu_host.c |   16 ++++++++--------
>  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu_host.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu_host.c
> index 1c6a9d7..7370e1c 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu_host.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu_host.c
> @@ -230,15 +230,15 @@ void inval_gtlbe_on_host(struct kvmppc_vcpu_e500 *vcpu_e500, int tlbsel,
>  		ref->flags &= ~(E500_TLB_TLB0 | E500_TLB_VALID);
>  	}
>  
> -	/* Already invalidated in between */
> -	if (!(ref->flags & E500_TLB_VALID))
> -		return;
> -
> -	/* Guest tlbe is backed by at most one host tlbe per shadow pid. */
> -	kvmppc_e500_tlbil_one(vcpu_e500, gtlbe);
> +	/*
> +	 * Check whether TLB entry is already invalidated in between
> +	 * Guest tlbe is backed by at most one host tlbe per shadow pid.
> +	 */
> +	if (ref->flags & E500_TLB_VALID)
> +		kvmppc_e500_tlbil_one(vcpu_e500, gtlbe);

I'd phrase this combined comment as "If it's still valid, it's a TLB0
entry, and thus backed by at most one host tlbe per shadow pid".

Otherwise looks good.

-Scott



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Patch

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu_host.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu_host.c
index 1c6a9d7..7370e1c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu_host.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu_host.c
@@ -230,15 +230,15 @@  void inval_gtlbe_on_host(struct kvmppc_vcpu_e500 *vcpu_e500, int tlbsel,
 		ref->flags &= ~(E500_TLB_TLB0 | E500_TLB_VALID);
 	}
 
-	/* Already invalidated in between */
-	if (!(ref->flags & E500_TLB_VALID))
-		return;
-
-	/* Guest tlbe is backed by at most one host tlbe per shadow pid. */
-	kvmppc_e500_tlbil_one(vcpu_e500, gtlbe);
+	/*
+	 * Check whether TLB entry is already invalidated in between
+	 * Guest tlbe is backed by at most one host tlbe per shadow pid.
+	 */
+	if (ref->flags & E500_TLB_VALID)
+		kvmppc_e500_tlbil_one(vcpu_e500, gtlbe);
 
 	/* Mark the TLB as not backed by the host anymore */
-	ref->flags &= ~E500_TLB_VALID;
+	ref->flags = 0;
 }
 
 static inline int tlbe_is_writable(struct kvm_book3e_206_tlb_entry *tlbe)
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@  static inline void kvmppc_e500_ref_setup(struct tlbe_ref *ref,
 					 pfn_t pfn)
 {
 	ref->pfn = pfn;
-	ref->flags |= E500_TLB_VALID;
+	ref->flags = E500_TLB_VALID;
 
 	if (tlbe_is_writable(gtlbe))
 		kvm_set_pfn_dirty(pfn);