Re: [Qemu-arm] [PATCH v2 2/2] arm_gicv3_kvm: kvm_dist_get/put: skip the registers banked by GICR

[Shannon Zhao]

On 2018/3/20 19:54, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 20 March 2018 at 11:36, Shannon Zhao <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2018/3/20 19:22, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> On 20 March 2018 at 07:26, Shannon Zhao <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> While we skip the GIC_INTERNAL irqs, we don't change the register offset
>>>> accordingly. This will overlap the GICR registers value and leave the
>>>> last GIC_INTERNAL irq's registers out of update.
>>>>
>>>> Fix this by skipping the registers banked by GICR.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm still not entirely sure what the underlying problem
>>> you're trying to fix is...
>>>
>>> Do we fail to correctly migrate a VM without this change?
>>> Does the code work on some host CPU/GIC implementations but
>>> not others? Is this just improving efficiency by avoiding
>>> doing some unnecessary work?
>>>
>> When we reboot a VM and before entering uefi or guest kernel, we expect
>> all these registers staying at the initial state. But currently these
>> registers of the last 32 irqs are not reset. For example, the PRIORITY
>> of irq from 32 to 255 is 0 but the PRIORITY of irq from 256 to 287 is
>> 0xa0(Linux kernel set the PRIORITY to 0xa0 by default).
>>
>> When migrating a VM, since we don't save and restore the registers of
>> the last 32 irq, so the PRIORITY is 0 while we expecting 0xa0.
>> And also it will overlap the PRIORITY of SGIs and PPIs.
>>
>> We don't fail to migrate a vm since currently we don't use the last 32
>> irqs in virt machine. But the bug is still there.
> 
> Oh, I see, the number of registers we transfer is accounting
> for the first N registers in the bank not being used, but the
> first register offset to transfer wasn't.
> 
> Can you still successfully migrate a VM from a QEMU version
> without this bugfix to one with the bugfix ?
> 
I've tested this case. I can migrate a VM between these two versions.

Thanks,
-- 
Shannon