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SubjectRe: [PATCH v10 00/14] powerpc/vas: Page fault handling for user space NX requests
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On 4/2/20 9:00 AM, Haren Myneni wrote:
>
> On power9, Virtual Accelerator Switchboard (VAS) allows user space or
> kernel to communicate with Nest Accelerator (NX) directly using COPY/PASTE
> instructions. NX provides various functionalities such as compression,
> encryption and etc. But only compression (842 and GZIP formats) is
> supported in Linux kernel on power9.
>
> 842 compression driver (drivers/crypto/nx/nx-842-powernv.c)
> is already included in Linux. Only GZIP support will be available from
> user space.
>
> Applications can issue GZIP compression / decompression requests to NX with
> COPY/PASTE instructions. When NX is processing these requests, can hit
> fault on the request buffer (not in memory). It issues an interrupt and
> pastes fault CRB in fault FIFO. Expects kernel to handle this fault and
> return credits for both send and fault windows after processing.

How complex would it be to provide a QEMU PowerNV model for the NX and
VAS units ? We can stage the different level of support. First would be
a simple HW init. I am interested for the XIVE modeling of course.

Thanks,

C.

>
> This patch series adds IRQ and fault window setup, and NX fault handling:
> - Alloc IRQ and trigger port address, and configure IRQ per VAS instance.
> - Set port# for each window to generate an interrupt when noticed fault.
> - Set fault window and FIFO on which NX paste fault CRB.
> - Setup IRQ thread fault handler per VAS instance.
> - When receiving an interrupt, Read CRBs from fault FIFO and update
> coprocessor_status_block (CSB) in the corresponding CRB with translation
> failure (CSB_CC_TRANSLATION). After issuing NX requests, process polls
> on CSB address. When it sees translation error, can touch the request
> buffer to bring the page in to memory and reissue NX request.
> - If copy_to_user fails on user space CSB address, OS sends SEGV signal.
>
> Tested these patches with NX-GZIP enable patches and posted them as separate
> patch series.
>
> Patch 1: Define alloc IRQ per chip which is needed to alloc IRQ per VAS
> instance.
> Patch 2: Define nx_fault_stamp on which NX writes fault status for the fault
> CRB
> Patch 3: Alloc and setup IRQ and trigger port address for each VAS instance
> Patches 4 & 5: Setup fault window and register NX per each VAS instance. This
> window is used for NX to paste fault CRB in FIFO.
> Patch 6: Reference to pid and mm so that pid is not used until window closed.
> Needed for multi thread application where child can open a window
> and can be used by parent it later.
> Patch 7: Setup threaded IRQ handler per VAS
> Patch 8: Process CRBs from fault FIFO and notify tasks by updating CSB or
> through signals.
> Patches 9 & 11: Return credits for send and fault windows after handling
> faults.
> Patches 10 & 12: Dump FIFO / CRB data and messages for error conditions
> Patch 13: Fix closing send window after all credits are returned. This issue
> happens only for user space requests. No page faults on kernel
> request buffer.
> Patch 14: For each process / thread, use mm_context->vas_windows counter to
> clear foreign address mapping and disable it.
>
> Changelog:
>
> V2:
> - Use threaded IRQ instead of own kernel thread handler
> - Use pswid instead of user space CSB address to find valid CRB
> - Removed unused macros and other changes as suggested by Christoph Hellwig
>
> V3:
> - Rebased to 5.5-rc2
> - Use struct pid * instead of pid_t for vas_window tgid
> - Code cleanup as suggested by Christoph Hellwig
>
> V4:
> - Define xive alloc and get IRQ info based on chip ID and use these
> functions for IRQ setup per VAS instance. It eliminates skiboot
> dependency as suggested by Oliver.
>
> V5:
> - Do not update CSB if the process is exiting (patch8)
>
> V6:
> - Add interrupt handler instead of default one and return IRQ_HANDLED
> if the fault handling thread is already in progress. (Patch7)
> - Use platform send window ID and CCW[0] bit to find valid CRB in
> fault FIFO (Patch7).
> - Return fault address to user space in BE and other changes as
> suggested by Michael Neuling. (patch8)
> - Rebased to 5.6-rc4
>
> V7:
> - Fixed sparse warnings (patches 4, 9 and 10)
>
> V8:
> - Moved mm_context_remove_copro() before mmdrop() (patch6)
> - Moved barrier before csb.flags store and add WARN_ON_ONCE() checks (patch8)
>
> V9:
> - Rebased to 5.6
> - Changes based on Cedric's comments
> - Removed "Define xive_native_alloc_get_irq_info()" patch and used
> irq_get_handler_data() (patch3)
> - Changes based on comments from Nicholas Piggin
> - Moved "Taking PID reference" patch before setting VAS fault handler
> patch
> - Removed mutex_lock/unlock (patch7)
> - Other cleanup changes
>
> V10:
> - Include patch to enable and disable CP_ABORT execution using
> mm_context->vas_windows counter.
> - Remove 'if (txwin)' line which is covered with 'else' before (patch6)
>
> Haren Myneni (14):
> powerpc/xive: Define xive_native_alloc_irq_on_chip()
> powerpc/vas: Define nx_fault_stamp in coprocessor_request_block
> powerpc/vas: Alloc and setup IRQ and trigger port address
> powerpc/vas: Setup fault window per VAS instance
> powerpc/vas: Register NX with fault window ID and IRQ port value
> powerpc/vas: Take reference to PID and mm for user space windows
> powerpc/vas: Setup thread IRQ handler per VAS instance
> powerpc/vas: Update CSB and notify process for fault CRBs
> powerpc/vas: Return credits after handling fault
> powerpc/vas: Print CRB and FIFO values
> powerpc/vas: Do not use default credits for receive window
> powerpc/vas: Display process stuck message
> powerpc/vas: Free send window in VAS instance after credits returned
> powerpc: Use mm_context vas_windows counter to issue CP_ABORT
>
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/mmu.h | 3 +
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/icswx.h | 20 +-
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 22 ++
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/processor.h | 1 -
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/xive.h | 9 +-
> arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 8 +-
> arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/Makefile | 2 +-
> arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/vas-debug.c | 2 +-
> arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/vas-fault.c | 382 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/vas-window.c | 202 ++++++++++++++-
> arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/vas.c | 85 ++++++-
> arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/vas.h | 57 ++++-
> arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/native.c | 6 +-
> 13 files changed, 767 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/vas-fault.c
>

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