Re: [PATCH v7 12/20] target/riscv: add KVM specific MISA properties

[Andrew Jones]

On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 07:08:03AM -0300, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
> Using all TCG user properties in KVM is tricky. First because KVM
> supports only a small subset of what TCG provides, so most of the
> cpu->cfg flags do nothing for KVM.
> 
> Second, and more important, we don't have a way of telling if any given
> value is an user input or not. For TCG this has a small impact since we
> just validating everything and error out if needed. But for KVM it would
> be good to know if a given value was set by the user or if it's a value
> already provided by KVM. Otherwise we don't know how to handle failed
> kvm_set_one_regs() when writing the configurations back.
> 
> These characteristics make it overly complicated to use the same user
> facing flags for both KVM and TCG. A simpler approach is to create KVM
> specific properties that have specialized logic, forking KVM and TCG use
> cases for those cases only. Fully separating KVM/TCG properties is
> unneeded at this point - in fact we want the user experience to be as
> equal as possible, regardless of the acceleration chosen.
> 
> We'll start this fork with the MISA properties, adding the MISA bits
> that the KVM driver currently supports. A new KVMCPUConfig type is
> introduced. It'll hold general information about an extension. For MISA
> extensions we're going to use the newly created getters of
> misa_ext_infos[] to populate their name and description. 'offset' holds
> the MISA bit (RVA, RVC, ...). We're calling it 'offset' instead of
> 'misa_bit' because this same KVMCPUConfig struct will be used to
> multi-letter extensions later on.
> 
> This new type also holds a 'user_set' flag. This flag will be set when
> the user set an option that's different than what is already configured
> in the host, requiring KVM intervention to write the regs back during
> kvm_arch_init_vcpu(). Similar mechanics will be implemented for
> multi-letter extensions as well.
> 
> There is no need to duplicate more code than necessary, so we're going
> to use the existing kvm_riscv_init_user_properties() to add the KVM
> specific properties. Any code that is adding a TCG user prop is then
> changed slightly to verify first if there's a KVM prop with the same
> name already added.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <dbarboza@ventanamicro.com>
> ---
>  target/riscv/cpu.c |  5 +++
>  target/riscv/kvm.c | 78 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 83 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/target/riscv/cpu.c b/target/riscv/cpu.c
> index c1693d5e9c..a9df61c9b4 100644
> --- a/target/riscv/cpu.c
> +++ b/target/riscv/cpu.c
> @@ -1648,6 +1648,11 @@ static void riscv_cpu_add_misa_properties(Object 
> *cpu_obj)
>          misa_cfg->name = riscv_get_misa_ext_name(bit);
>          misa_cfg->description = riscv_get_misa_ext_description(bit);
>  
> +        /* Check if KVM already created the property */
> +        if (object_property_find(cpu_obj, misa_cfg->name)) {
> +            continue;
> +        }
> +
>          object_property_add(cpu_obj, misa_cfg->name, "bool",
>                              cpu_get_misa_ext_cfg,
>                              cpu_set_misa_ext_cfg,
> diff --git a/target/riscv/kvm.c b/target/riscv/kvm.c
> index 4d0808cb9a..c55d0ec7ab 100644
> --- a/target/riscv/kvm.c
> +++ b/target/riscv/kvm.c
> @@ -22,8 +22,10 @@
>  #include <linux/kvm.h>
>  
>  #include "qemu/timer.h"
> +#include "qapi/error.h"
>  #include "qemu/error-report.h"
>  #include "qemu/main-loop.h"
> +#include "qapi/visitor.h"
>  #include "sysemu/sysemu.h"
>  #include "sysemu/kvm.h"
>  #include "sysemu/kvm_int.h"
> @@ -105,6 +107,81 @@ static uint64_t kvm_riscv_reg_id(CPURISCVState *env, 
> uint64_t type,
>          } \
>      } while (0)
>  
> +typedef struct KVMCPUConfig {
> +    const char *name;
> +    const char *description;
> +    target_ulong offset;
> +    int kvm_reg_id;
> +    bool user_set;
> +} KVMCPUConfig;
> +
> +#define KVM_MISA_CFG(_bit, _reg_id) \
> +    {.offset = _bit, .kvm_reg_id = _reg_id}
> +
> +/* KVM ISA extensions */
> +static KVMCPUConfig kvm_misa_ext_cfgs[] = {
> +    KVM_MISA_CFG(RVA, KVM_RISCV_ISA_EXT_A),
> +    KVM_MISA_CFG(RVC, KVM_RISCV_ISA_EXT_C),
> +    KVM_MISA_CFG(RVD, KVM_RISCV_ISA_EXT_D),
> +    KVM_MISA_CFG(RVF, KVM_RISCV_ISA_EXT_F),
> +    KVM_MISA_CFG(RVH, KVM_RISCV_ISA_EXT_H),
> +    KVM_MISA_CFG(RVI, KVM_RISCV_ISA_EXT_I),
> +    KVM_MISA_CFG(RVM, KVM_RISCV_ISA_EXT_M),
> +};
> +
> +static void kvm_cpu_set_misa_ext_cfg(Object *obj, Visitor *v,
> +                                     const char *name,
> +                                     void *opaque, Error **errp)
> +{
> +    KVMCPUConfig *misa_ext_cfg = opaque;
> +    target_ulong misa_bit = misa_ext_cfg->offset;
> +    RISCVCPU *cpu = RISCV_CPU(obj);
> +    CPURISCVState *env = &cpu->env;
> +    bool value, host_bit;
> +
> +    if (!visit_type_bool(v, name, &value, errp)) {
> +        return;
> +    }
> +
> +    host_bit = env->misa_ext_mask & misa_bit;
> +
> +    if (value == host_bit) {
> +        return;
> +    }
> +
> +    if (!value) {
> +        misa_ext_cfg->user_set = true;
> +        return;
> +    }
> +
> +    /*
> +     * Forbid users to enable extensions that aren't
> +     * available in the hart.
> +     */
> +    error_setg(errp, "Enabling MISA bit '%s' is not allowed: it's not "
> +               "enabled in the host", misa_ext_cfg->name);
> +}
> +
> +static void kvm_riscv_add_cpu_user_properties(Object *cpu_obj)
> +{
> +    int i;
> +
> +    for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(kvm_misa_ext_cfgs); i++) {
> +        KVMCPUConfig *misa_cfg = &kvm_misa_ext_cfgs[i];
> +        int bit = misa_cfg->offset;
> +
> +        misa_cfg->name = riscv_get_misa_ext_name(bit);
> +        misa_cfg->description = riscv_get_misa_ext_description(bit);
> +
> +        object_property_add(cpu_obj, misa_cfg->name, "bool",
> +                            NULL,
> +                            kvm_cpu_set_misa_ext_cfg,
> +                            NULL, misa_cfg);
> +        object_property_set_description(cpu_obj, misa_cfg->name,
> +                                        misa_cfg->description);
> +    }
> +}
> +
>  static int kvm_riscv_get_regs_core(CPUState *cs)
>  {
>      int ret = 0;
> @@ -427,6 +504,7 @@ void kvm_riscv_init_user_properties(Object *cpu_obj)
>          return;
>      }
>  
> +    kvm_riscv_add_cpu_user_properties(cpu_obj);
>      kvm_riscv_init_machine_ids(cpu, &kvmcpu);
>      kvm_riscv_init_misa_ext_mask(cpu, &kvmcpu);
>  
> -- 
> 2.41.0
>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>

Thanks,
drew