Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 7/7] KVM: arm64: Normalize cache configuration

From: Oliver Upton <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 19:46:16 +0000

Hi Akihiko,

On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 11:38:52AM +0900, Akihiko Odaki wrote:
> Before this change, the cache configuration of the physical CPU was
> exposed to vcpus. This is problematic because the cache configuration a
> vcpu sees varies when it migrates between vcpus with different cache
> configurations.
> 
> Fabricate cache configuration from the sanitized value, which holds the
> CTR_EL0 value the userspace sees regardless of which physical CPU it
> resides on.
> 
> CLIDR_EL1 and CCSIDR_EL1 are now writable from the userspace so that
> the VMM can restore the values saved with the old kernel.
> 
> Suggested-by: Marc Zyngier <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki <[email-masked]>

I needed to squash in the patch below to get all of this working.
Writing back the value read for a given cache level was failing, which I
caught with the get-reg-list selftest.

Pushed the result here if you want to have a look:

  https://github.com/oupton/linux/tree/kvm-arm64/virtual-cache-geometry

--
Thanks,
Oliver

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
index 459e6d358dab..b6228f7d1d8d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
@@ -148,17 +148,19 @@ static u32 get_ccsidr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 csselr)
 
 static int set_ccsidr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 csselr, u32 val)
 {
-	u8 line_size = FIELD_GET(CCSIDR_EL1_LineSize, val);
+	u8 line_size = SYS_FIELD_GET(CCSIDR_EL1, LineSize, val);
+	u32 cur = get_ccsidr(vcpu, csselr);
+	u8 min_line_size = SYS_FIELD_GET(CCSIDR_EL1, LineSize, cur);
 	u32 *ccsidr = vcpu->arch.ccsidr;
 	u32 i;
 
-	if ((val & CCSIDR_EL1_RES0) || line_size < get_min_cache_line_size(csselr))
+	if (cur == val)
+		return 0;
+
+	if ((val & CCSIDR_EL1_RES0) || line_size < min_line_size)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	if (!ccsidr) {
-		if (val == get_ccsidr(vcpu, csselr))
-			return 0;
-
 		ccsidr = kmalloc_array(CSSELR_MAX, sizeof(u32), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!ccsidr)
 			return -ENOMEM;

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