Re: [PATCH v5 23/23] KVM: arm64: GICv4.1: Expose HW-based SGIs in debugfs

[Zenghui Yu]

Hi Marc,

On 2020/3/20 17:09, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Hi Zenghui,
>
> On 2020-03-20 04:38, Zenghui Yu wrote:
> > Hi Marc,
> >
> > On 2020/3/19 23:21, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > > With GICv4.1, you can introspect the HW state for SGIs. You can also
> > > look at the vLPI state by peeking at the virtual pending table, but
> > > you'd need to unmap the VPE first,
> >
> > Out of curiosity, could you please point me to the "unmap the VPE"
> > requirement in the v4.1 spec? I'd like to have a look.
>
> Sure. See IHI0069F, 5.3.19 (VMAPP GICv4.1), "Caching of virtual LPI data
> structures", and the bit that says:
>
> "A VMAPP with {V,Alloc}=={0,1} cleans and invalidates any caching of the
> Virtual Pending Table and Virtual Configuration Table associated with the
> vPEID held in the GIC"
>
> which is what was crucially missing from the GICv4.0 spec (it doesn't say
> when the GIC is done writing to memory).

OK. Thanks for the pointer!

> Side note: it'd be good to know what the rules are for your own GICv4
> implementations, so that we can at least make sure the current code is 
> safe.

As far as I know, there will be some clean and invalidate operations
when v4.0 VPENDBASER.Valid gets programmed. But not sure about behaviors
on VMAPP (unmap), it may be a totally v4.1 stuff. I'll have a talk with
our SOC team.

But how can the current code be unsafe? Is anywhere in the current code
will peek/poke the vpt (whilst GIC continues writing things into it)?


Thanks,
Zenghui