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Re: [PATCH v5 3/3] ppc: Enable 2nd DAWR support on p10
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Cédric Le Goater |
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Re: [PATCH v5 3/3] ppc: Enable 2nd DAWR support on p10 |
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Wed, 21 Apr 2021 08:31:31 +0200 |
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On 4/21/21 8:20 AM, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> On 4/19/21 10:23 AM, David Gibson wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 05:14:33PM +0530, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
>>> As per the PAPR, bit 0 of byte 64 in pa-features property indicates
>>> availability of 2nd DAWR registers. i.e. If this bit is set, 2nd
>>> DAWR is present, otherwise not. Use KVM_CAP_PPC_DAWR1 capability to
>>> find whether kvm supports 2nd DAWR or not. If it's supported, allow
>>> user to set the pa-feature bit in guest DT using cap-dawr1 machine
>>> capability. Though, watchpoint on powerpc TCG guest is not supported
>>> and thus 2nd DAWR is not enabled for TCG mode.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
>>> Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
>>
>> So, I'm actually not sure if using an spapr capability is what we want
>> to do here. The problem is that presumably the idea is to at some
>> point make the DAWR1 capability default to on (on POWER10, at least).
>> But at that point you'll no longer to be able to start TCG guests
>> without explicitly disabling it. That's technically correct, since we
>> don't implement DAWR1 in TCG, but then we also don't implement DAWR0
>> and we let that slide... which I think is probably going to cause less
>> irritation on balance.
>
> Ok. Probably something like this is what you want?
>
> Power10 behavior:
> - KVM does not support DAWR1: Boot the guest without DAWR1
> support (No warnings). Error out only if user tries with
> cap-dawr1=on.
> - KVM supports DAWR1: Boot the guest with DAWR1 support, unless
> user specifies cap-dawr1=off.
> - TCG guest: Ignore cap-dawr1 i.e. boot as if there is only
> DAWR0 (Should be fixed in future while adding PowerPC watch-
> point support in TCG mode)
>
> Power10 predecessor behavior:
> - KVM guest: Boot the guest without DAWR1 support. Error out
> if user tries with cap-dawr1=on.
> - TCG guest: Ignore cap-dawr1 i.e. boot as if there is only
> DAWR0 (Should be fixed in future while adding PowerPC watch-
> point support in TCG mode)
>
>> I'm wondering if we're actually just better off setting the pa feature
>> just based on the guest CPU model. TCG will be broken if you try to
>> use it, but then, it already is. AFAIK there's no inherent reason we
>> couldn't implement DAWR support in TCG, it's just never been worth the
>> trouble.
>
> Correct. Probably there is no practical usecase for DAWR in TCG mode.
What's the expected behavior ? Is it to generate a DSI if we have a DAWR
match ?
C.
[PATCH v5 1/3] Linux headers: update from 5.12-rc3, Ravi Bangoria, 2021/04/12
[PATCH v5 2/3] ppc: Rename current DAWR macros and variables, Ravi Bangoria, 2021/04/12