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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 10/20] kvm: arm64: Dynamic configuration of VTTBR mask
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Hi Eric,

On 02/07/18 15:41, Auger Eric wrote:
> Hi Suzuki,
>
> On 06/29/2018 01:15 PM, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
>> On arm64 VTTBR_EL2:BADDR holds the base address for the stage2
>> translation table. The Arm ARM mandates that the bits BADDR[x-1:0]
>> should be 0, where 'x' is defined for a given IPA Size and the
>> number of levels for a translation granule size. It is defined
>> using some magical constants. This patch is a reverse engineered
>> implementation to calculate the 'x' at runtime for a given ipa and
>> number of page table levels. See patch for more details.
>>
>> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
>> Cc: Christoffer Dall <cdall@kernel.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
>> ---
>> Changes since V2:
>> - Part 1 of spilt from VTCR & VTTBR dynamic configuration
>> ---
>> arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_arm.h | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>> arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h | 25 ++++++++++++++++-
>> 2 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_arm.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_arm.h
>> index 3dffd38..c557f45 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_arm.h
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_arm.h
>> @@ -140,8 +140,6 @@
>> * Note that when using 4K pages, we concatenate two first level page tables
>> * together. With 16K pages, we concatenate 16 first level page tables.
>> *
>> - * The magic numbers used for VTTBR_X in this patch can be found in Tables
>> - * D4-23 and D4-25 in ARM DDI 0487A.b.
> Isn't it a pretty old reference? Could you refer to C.a?

Sure, I will update the references everywhere.

>> + *
>> + * The algorithm defines the expectations on the BaseAddress (for the page
>> + * table) bits resolved at each level based on the page size, entry level
>> + * and T0SZ. The variable "x" in the algorithm also affects the VTTBR:BADDR
>> + * for stage2 page table.
>> + *
>> + * The value of "x" is calculated as :
>> + * x = Magic_N - T0SZ
>> + *
>> + * where Magic_N is an integer depending on the page size and the entry
>> + * level of the page table as below:
>> + *
>> + * --------------------------------------------
>> + * | Entry level | 4K 16K 64K |
>> + * --------------------------------------------
>> + * | Level: 0 (4 levels) | 28 | - | - |
>> + * --------------------------------------------
>> + * | Level: 1 (3 levels) | 37 | 31 | 25 |
>> + * --------------------------------------------
>> + * | Level: 2 (2 levels) | 46 | 42 | 38 |
>> + * --------------------------------------------
>> + * | Level: 3 (1 level) | - | 53 | 51 |
>> + * --------------------------------------------
> I understand entry level = Lookup level in the table.

Entry level => The level at which we start the page table walk for
a given address (This is in line with the ARM ARM). So,

Entry_level = (4 - Number_of_Page_table_levels)

> But you may want to compute x for BaseAddress matching lookup level 2
> with number of levels = 4.

No, the BaseAddress is only calcualted for the "Entry_level". So the
above case doesn't exist at all.

> So shouldn't you s/Number of levels/4 - entry_level?

Ok, I now understood what you are referring to [0]
> for BADDR we want the BaseAddr of the initial lookup level so
> effectively the entry level we are interested in is 4 - number of levels
> and we don't care or d) condition. At least this is my understanding ;-)
> If correct you may slightly reword the explanation?


>> + *
>> + * We have a magic formula for the Magic_N below.
>> + *
>> + * Magic_N(PAGE_SIZE, Entry_Level) = 64 - ((PAGE_SHIFT - 3) * Number of levels)

[0] ^^^



>> + *
>> + * where number of levels = (4 - Entry_Level).

^^^ Doesn't this help make it clear ? Using the expansion makes it a bit more
unreadable below.

>>
>> +/*
>> + * Get the magic number 'x' for VTTBR:BADDR of this KVM instance.
>> + * With v8.2 LVA extensions, 'x' should be a minimum of 6 with
>> + * 52bit IPS.
> Link to the spec?

Sure, will add it.

Thanks for the patience to review :-)

Cheers
Suzuki

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