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[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] PPC: Get MMU state on register sync
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Alexander Graf |
Subject: |
[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] PPC: Get MMU state on register sync |
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Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:46:57 +0100 |
On 24.11.2009, at 19:33, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Alexander Graf wrote:
>> On 24.11.2009, at 19:12, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>
>>> Alexander Graf wrote:
>>>> On 24.11.2009, at 19:01, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Alexander Graf wrote:
>>>>>> While x86 only needs to sync cr0-4 to know all about its MMU state and
>>>>>> enable
>>>>>> qemu to resolve virtual to physical addresses, we need to sync all of the
>>>>>> segment registers on PPC to know which mapping we're in.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So let's grab the segment register contents to be able to use the "x"
>>>>>> monitor
>>>>>> command and also enable the gdbstub to resolve virtual addresses.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I sent the corresponding KVM patch to the KVM ML some minutes ago.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <address@hidden>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> target-ppc/kvm.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>> 1 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/target-ppc/kvm.c b/target-ppc/kvm.c
>>>>>> index 4e1c65f..566513f 100644
>>>>>> --- a/target-ppc/kvm.c
>>>>>> +++ b/target-ppc/kvm.c
>>>>>> @@ -98,12 +98,17 @@ int kvm_arch_put_registers(CPUState *env)
>>>>>> int kvm_arch_get_registers(CPUState *env)
>>>>>> {
>>>>>> struct kvm_regs regs;
>>>>>> + struct kvm_sregs sregs;
>>>>>> uint32_t i, ret;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ret = kvm_vcpu_ioctl(env, KVM_GET_REGS, ®s);
>>>>>> if (ret < 0)
>>>>>> return ret;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> + ret = kvm_vcpu_ioctl(env, KVM_GET_SREGS, &sregs);
>>>>>> + if (ret < 0)
>>>>>> + return ret;
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> env->ctr = regs.ctr;
>>>>>> env->lr = regs.lr;
>>>>>> env->xer = regs.xer;
>>>>>> @@ -125,6 +130,31 @@ int kvm_arch_get_registers(CPUState *env)
>>>>>> for (i = 0;i < 32; i++)
>>>>>> env->gpr[i] = regs.gpr[i];
>>>>>>
>>>>>> +#ifdef KVM_CAP_PPC_SEGSTATE
>>>>>> + if (kvm_check_extension(env->kvm_state, KVM_CAP_PPC_SEGSTATE)) {
>>>>>> + env->sdr1 = sregs.sdr1;
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> + /* Sync SLB */
>>>>>> + for (i = 0; i < 64; i++) {
>>>>>> + ppc_store_slb(env, sregs.ppc64.slb[i].slbe,
>>>>>> + sregs.ppc64.slb[i].slbv);
>>>>>> + }
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> + /* Sync SRs */
>>>>>> + for (i = 0; i < 16; i++) {
>>>>>> + env->sr[i] = sregs.ppc32.sr[i];
>>>>>> + }
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> + /* Sync BATs */
>>>>>> + for (i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
>>>>>> + env->DBAT[0][i] = sregs.ppc32.dbat[i] & 0xffffffff;
>>>>>> + env->DBAT[1][i] = sregs.ppc32.dbat[i] >> 32;
>>>>>> + env->IBAT[0][i] = sregs.ppc32.ibat[i] & 0xffffffff;
>>>>>> + env->IBAT[1][i] = sregs.ppc32.ibat[i] >> 32;
>>>>>> + }
>>>>>> + }
>>>>>> +#endif
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> return 0;
>>>>>> }
>>>>>>
>>>>> What about KVM_SET_SREGS in kvm_arch_put_registers? E.g. to play back
>>>>> potential changes to that special registers someone did via gdb?
>>>> I don't think you can actually change the segment values. At least I can't
>>>> imagine why.
>>> Dunno about PPC in this regard and how much value it has, but we have
>>> segment register access via gdb for x86.
>>
>> The segments here are more like PLM4 on x86.
>
> Even that will be settable one day (gdb just do not yet know much about
> x86 system management registers).
>
>>
>>>> I definitely will implement SET_SREGS as soon as your sync split is in, as
>>>> that's IMHO only really required on migration.
>>>>
>>> Migration is, of course, the major use case.
>>>
>>> Still I wonder why not making this API symmetric when already touching it.
>>
>> I was afraid to introduce performance regressions - setting the segments
>> means flushing the complete shadow MMU.
>>
>
> Unless it costs milliseconds, not really critical, given how often
> registers are synchronized.
>
> BTW, I noticed that ppc only syncs the SREGS once on init, not on reset
> - are they static?
So far SREGS are only used for setting the PVR (cpuid in x86 speech). There's
no need to reset that on reset :-).
Alex
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] PPC: Sync CPU state for KVM, Alexander Graf, 2009/11/24
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] PPC: Get MMU state on register sync, Alexander Graf, 2009/11/24
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] PPC: Get MMU state on register sync, Jan Kiszka, 2009/11/24
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] PPC: Get MMU state on register sync, Alexander Graf, 2009/11/24
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] PPC: Get MMU state on register sync, Jan Kiszka, 2009/11/24
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] PPC: Get MMU state on register sync, Alexander Graf, 2009/11/24
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] PPC: Get MMU state on register sync, Jan Kiszka, 2009/11/24
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] PPC: Get MMU state on register sync,
Alexander Graf <=
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] PPC: Get MMU state on register sync, Jan Kiszka, 2009/11/24
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] PPC: Get MMU state on register sync, Alexander Graf, 2009/11/24
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] PPC: Get MMU state on register sync, Jan Kiszka, 2009/11/24
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] PPC: Get MMU state on register sync, Alexander Graf, 2009/11/24