Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH v3 07/35] spapr/xive: introduce the XIVE Event Queues

[David Gibson]

On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 04:37:29PM +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> On 05/03/2018 08:25 AM, David Gibson wrote:
> > On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 08:07:54AM +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> >> On 05/03/2018 07:45 AM, David Gibson wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 11:48:06AM +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> >>>> On 04/26/2018 09:25 AM, David Gibson wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 02:43:03PM +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> >>>>>> The Event Queue Descriptor (EQD) table is an internal table of the
> >>>>>> XIVE routing sub-engine. It specifies on which Event Queue the event
> >>>>>> data should be posted when an exception occurs (later on pulled by the
> >>>>>> OS) and which Virtual Processor to notify.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Uhhh.. I thought the IVT said which queue and vp to notify, and the
> >>>>> EQD gave metadata for event queues.
> >>>>
> >>>> yes. the above poorly written. The Event Queue Descriptor contains the
> >>>> guest address of the event queue in which the data is written. I will 
> >>>> rephrase.      
> >>>>
> >>>> The IVT contains IVEs which indeed define for an IRQ which EQ to notify 
> >>>> and what data to push on the queue. 
> >>>>  
> >>>>>> The Event Queue is a much
> >>>>>> more complex structure but we start with a simple model for the sPAPR
> >>>>>> machine.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> There is one XiveEQ per priority and these are stored under the XIVE
> >>>>>> virtualization presenter (sPAPRXiveNVT). EQs are simply indexed with :
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>        (server << 3) | (priority & 0x7)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> This is not in the XIVE architecture but as the EQ index is never
> >>>>>> exposed to the guest, in the hcalls nor in the device tree, we are
> >>>>>> free to use what fits best the current model.
> >>>>
> >>>> This EQ indexing is important to notice because it will also show up 
> >>>> in KVM to build the IVE from the KVM irq state.
> >>>
> >>> Ok, are you saying that while this combined EQ index will never appear
> >>> in guest <-> host interfaces, 
> >>
> >> Indeed.
> >>
> >>> it might show up in qemu <-> KVM interfaces?
> >>
> >> Not directly but it is part of the IVE as the IVE_EQ_INDEX field. When
> >> dumped, it has to be built in some ways, compatible with the emulated 
> >> mode in QEMU. 
> > 
> > Hrm.  But is the exact IVE contents visible to qemu (for a PAPR
> > guest)?  
> 
> The guest only uses hcalls which arguments are :
>  
>       - cpu numbers,
>       - priority numbers from defined ranges, 
>       - logical interrupt numbers.  
>       - physical address of the EQ 
> 
> The visible parts for the guest of the IVE are the 'priority', the 'cpu', 
> and the 'eisn', which is the effective IRQ number the guest is assigning 
> to the source. The 'eisn" will be pushed in the EQ.

Ok.

> The IVE EQ index is not visible.

Good.

> > I would have thought the qemu <-> KVM interfaces would have
> > abstracted this the same way the guest <-> KVM interfaces do.  > Or is 
> > there a reason not to?
> 
> It is practical to dump 64bit IVEs directly from KVM into the QEMU 
> internal structures because it fits the emulated mode without doing 
> any translation ... This might be seen as a shortcut. You will tell 
> me when you reach the KVM part.   

Ugh.. exposing to qemu the raw IVEs sounds like a bad idea to me.
When we migrate, we're going to have to assign the guest (server,
priority) tuples to host EQ indicies, and I think it makes more sense
to do that in KVM and hide the raw indices from qemu than to have qemu
mangle them explicitly on migration.

> >>>>>> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <address@hidden>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Is the EQD actually modifiable by a guest?  Or are the settings of the
> >>>>> EQs fixed by PAPR?
> >>>>
> >>>> The guest uses the H_INT_SET_QUEUE_CONFIG hcall to define the address
> >>>> of the event queue for a couple prio/server.
> >>>
> >>> Ok, so the EQD can be modified by the guest.  In which case we need to
> >>> work out what object owns it, since it'll need to migrate it.
> >>
> >> Indeed. The EQD are CPU related as there is one EQD per couple (cpu, 
> >> priority). The KVM patchset dumps/restores the eight XiveEQ struct 
> >> using per cpu ioctls. The EQ in the OS RAM is marked dirty at that
> >> stage.
> > 
> > To make sure I'm clear: for PAPR there's a strict relationship between
> > EQD and CPU (one EQD for each (cpu, priority) tuple).  
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > But for powernv that's not the case, right?  
> 
> It is.

Uh.. I don't think either of us phrased that well, I'm still not sure
which way you're answering that.

> > AIUI the mapping of EQs to cpus was configurable, is that right?
> 
> Each cpu has 8 EQD. Same for virtual cpus.

Hmm.. but is that 8 EQD per cpu something built into the hardware, or
just a convention of how the host kernel and OPAL operate?

> 
> I am not sure what you understood before ? It is surely something
> I wrote, my XIVE understanding is still making progress.
> 
> 
> C.
> 

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