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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/9] spapr: Maximum (HPT) pagesize property


From: Greg Kurz
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/9] spapr: Maximum (HPT) pagesize property
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 11:19:41 +0200

On Mon, 18 Jun 2018 16:36:02 +1000
David Gibson <address@hidden> wrote:

> The way the POWER Hash Page Table (HPT) MMU is virtualized by KVM HV means
> that every page that the guest puts in the pagetables must be truly
> physically contiguous, not just GPA-contiguous.  In effect this means that
> an HPT guest can't use any pagesizes greater than the host page size used
> to back its memory.
> 
> At present we handle this by changing what we advertise to the guest based
> on the backing pagesizes.  This is pretty bad, because it means the guest
> sees a different environment depending on what should be host configuration
> details.
> 
> As a start on fixing this, we add a new capability parameter to the pseries
> machine type which gives the maximum allowed pagesizes for an HPT guest (as
> a shift).

Maybe you can mention that it is exposed to the user as a genuine pagesize,
not a shift, because it is a friendlier interface.

> For now we just create and validate the parameter without making
> it do anything.
> 
> For backwards compatibility, on older machine types we set it to the max
> available page size for the host.  For the 3.0 machine type, we fix it to
> 16, the intention being to only allow HPT pagesizes up to 64kiB by default
> in future.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <address@hidden>

>  hw/ppc/spapr.c         | 12 +++++++++
>  hw/ppc/spapr_caps.c    | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/hw/ppc/spapr.h |  4 ++-
>  3 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr.c b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> index 40858d047c..74a76e7e09 100644
> --- a/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
>  #include "hw/virtio/vhost-scsi-common.h"
>  
>  #include "exec/address-spaces.h"
> +#include "exec/ram_addr.h"
>  #include "hw/usb.h"
>  #include "qemu/config-file.h"
>  #include "qemu/error-report.h"
> @@ -4043,6 +4044,7 @@ static void spapr_machine_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, 
> void *data)
>      smc->default_caps.caps[SPAPR_CAP_CFPC] = SPAPR_CAP_BROKEN;
>      smc->default_caps.caps[SPAPR_CAP_SBBC] = SPAPR_CAP_BROKEN;
>      smc->default_caps.caps[SPAPR_CAP_IBS] = SPAPR_CAP_BROKEN;
> +    smc->default_caps.caps[SPAPR_CAP_HPT_MAXPAGESIZE] = 16; /* 64kiB */
>      spapr_caps_add_properties(smc, &error_abort);
>  }
>  
> @@ -4126,8 +4128,18 @@ static void 
> spapr_machine_2_12_instance_options(MachineState *machine)
>  
>  static void spapr_machine_2_12_class_options(MachineClass *mc)
>  {
> +    sPAPRMachineClass *smc = SPAPR_MACHINE_CLASS(mc);
> +    uint8_t mps;
> +
>      spapr_machine_3_0_class_options(mc);
>      SET_MACHINE_COMPAT(mc, SPAPR_COMPAT_2_12);
> +
> +    if (kvmppc_hpt_needs_host_contiguous_pages()) {
> +        mps = ctz64(qemu_getrampagesize());
> +    } else {
> +        mps = 34; /* allow everything up to 16GiB, i.e. everything */
> +    }
> +    smc->default_caps.caps[SPAPR_CAP_HPT_MAXPAGESIZE] = mps;
>  }
>  
>  DEFINE_SPAPR_MACHINE(2_12, "2.12", false);
> diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr_caps.c b/hw/ppc/spapr_caps.c
> index 68a4243efc..6cdc0c94e7 100644
> --- a/hw/ppc/spapr_caps.c
> +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr_caps.c
> @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
>  #include "qapi/visitor.h"
>  #include "sysemu/hw_accel.h"
>  #include "target/ppc/cpu.h"
> +#include "target/ppc/mmu-hash64.h"
>  #include "cpu-models.h"
>  #include "kvm_ppc.h"
>  
> @@ -144,6 +145,42 @@ out:
>      g_free(val);
>  }
>  
> +static void spapr_cap_get_pagesize(Object *obj, Visitor *v, const char *name,
> +                                   void *opaque, Error **errp)
> +{
> +    sPAPRCapabilityInfo *cap = opaque;
> +    sPAPRMachineState *spapr = SPAPR_MACHINE(obj);
> +    uint8_t val = spapr_get_cap(spapr, cap->index);
> +    uint64_t pagesize = (1ULL << val);
> +
> +    visit_type_size(v, name, &pagesize, errp);
> +}
> +
> +static void spapr_cap_set_pagesize(Object *obj, Visitor *v, const char *name,
> +                                   void *opaque, Error **errp)
> +{
> +    sPAPRCapabilityInfo *cap = opaque;
> +    sPAPRMachineState *spapr = SPAPR_MACHINE(obj);
> +    uint64_t pagesize;
> +    uint8_t val;
> +    Error *local_err = NULL;
> +
> +    visit_type_size(v, name, &pagesize, &local_err);
> +    if (local_err) {
> +        error_propagate(errp, local_err);
> +        return;
> +    }
> +
> +    if (!is_power_of_2(pagesize)) {
> +        error_setg(errp, "cap-%s must be a power of 2", cap->name);
> +        return;
> +    }
> +
> +    val = ctz64(pagesize);
> +    spapr->cmd_line_caps[cap->index] = true;
> +    spapr->eff.caps[cap->index] = val;
> +}
> +
>  static void cap_htm_apply(sPAPRMachineState *spapr, uint8_t val, Error 
> **errp)
>  {
>      if (!val) {
> @@ -267,6 +304,16 @@ static void 
> cap_safe_indirect_branch_apply(sPAPRMachineState *spapr,
>  
>  #define VALUE_DESC_TRISTATE     " (broken, workaround, fixed)"
>  
> +static void cap_hpt_maxpagesize_apply(sPAPRMachineState *spapr,
> +                                      uint8_t val, Error **errp)
> +{
> +    if (val < 12) {
> +        error_setg(errp, "Require at least 4kiB hpt-max-page-size");
> +    } else if (val < 16) {
> +        warn_report("Many guests require at least 64kiB hpt-max-page-size");
> +    }
> +}
> +
>  sPAPRCapabilityInfo capability_table[SPAPR_CAP_NUM] = {
>      [SPAPR_CAP_HTM] = {
>          .name = "htm",
> @@ -326,6 +373,15 @@ sPAPRCapabilityInfo capability_table[SPAPR_CAP_NUM] = {
>          .possible = &cap_ibs_possible,
>          .apply = cap_safe_indirect_branch_apply,
>      },
> +    [SPAPR_CAP_HPT_MAXPAGESIZE] = {
> +        .name = "hpt-max-page-size",
> +        .description = "Maximum page size for Hash Page Table guests",
> +        .index = SPAPR_CAP_HPT_MAXPAGESIZE,
> +        .get = spapr_cap_get_pagesize,
> +        .set = spapr_cap_set_pagesize,
> +        .type = "int",
> +        .apply = cap_hpt_maxpagesize_apply,
> +    },
>  };
>  
>  static sPAPRCapabilities default_caps_with_cpu(sPAPRMachineState *spapr,
> diff --git a/include/hw/ppc/spapr.h b/include/hw/ppc/spapr.h
> index 9dd46a72f6..c97593d032 100644
> --- a/include/hw/ppc/spapr.h
> +++ b/include/hw/ppc/spapr.h
> @@ -66,8 +66,10 @@ typedef enum {
>  #define SPAPR_CAP_SBBC                  0x04
>  /* Indirect Branch Serialisation */
>  #define SPAPR_CAP_IBS                   0x05
> +/* HPT Maximum Page Size (encoded as a shift) */
> +#define SPAPR_CAP_HPT_MAXPAGESIZE       0x06
>  /* Num Caps */
> -#define SPAPR_CAP_NUM                   (SPAPR_CAP_IBS + 1)
> +#define SPAPR_CAP_NUM                   (SPAPR_CAP_HPT_MAXPAGESIZE + 1)
>  
>  /*
>   * Capability Values




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