[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] exec: add page_mask for address_space_do_translate

[Peter Xu]

The function is originally used for address_space_translate() and what
we care about most is (xlat, plen) range. However for iotlb requests, we
don't really care about "plen", but the size of the page that "xlat" is
located on. While, plen cannot really contain this information.

A simple example to show why "plen" is not good for IOTLB translations:

E.g., for huge pages, it is possible that guest mapped 1G huge page on
device side that used this GPA range:

  0x100000000 - 0x13fffffff

Then let's say we want to translate one IOVA that finally mapped to GPA
0x13ffffe00 (which is located on this 1G huge page). Then here we'll
get:

  (xlat, plen) = (0x13fffe00, 0x200)

So the IOTLB would be only covering a very small range since from
"plen" (which is 0x200 bytes) we cannot tell the size of the page.

Actually we can really know that this is a huge page - we just throw the
information away in address_space_do_translate().

This patch introduced "page_mask" optional parameter to capture that
page mask info. Also, I made "plen" an optional parameter as well, with
some comments for the whole function.

No functional change yet.

Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <address@hidden>
---
 exec.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/exec.c b/exec.c
index 8fc0e78..63a3ff0 100644
--- a/exec.c
+++ b/exec.c
@@ -465,21 +465,45 @@ address_space_translate_internal(AddressSpaceDispatch *d, 
hwaddr addr, hwaddr *x
     return section;
 }
 
-/* Called from RCU critical section */
+/**
+ * address_space_do_translate - translate an address in AddressSpace
+ *
+ * @as: the address space that we want to translate on
+ * @addr: the address to be translated in above address space
+ * @xlat: the translated address offset within memory region. It
+ *        cannot be @NULL.
+ * @plen_out: valid read/write length of the translated address. It
+ *            can be @NULL when we don't care about it.
+ * @page_mask_out: page mask for the translated address. This
+ *            should only be meaningful for IOMMU translated
+ *            addresses, since there may be huge pages that this bit
+ *            would tell. It can be @NULL if we don't care about it.
+ * @is_write: whether the translation operation is for write
+ * @is_mmio: whether this can be MMIO, set true if it can
+ *
+ * This function is called from RCU critical section
+ */
 static MemoryRegionSection address_space_do_translate(AddressSpace *as,
                                                       hwaddr addr,
                                                       hwaddr *xlat,
-                                                      hwaddr *plen,
+                                                      hwaddr *plen_out,
+                                                      hwaddr *page_mask_out,
                                                       bool is_write,
                                                       bool is_mmio)
 {
     IOMMUTLBEntry iotlb;
     MemoryRegionSection *section;
     MemoryRegion *mr;
+    hwaddr page_mask = TARGET_PAGE_MASK;
+    hwaddr plen = (hwaddr)(-1);
+
+    if (plen_out) {
+        plen = *plen_out;
+    }
 
     for (;;) {
         AddressSpaceDispatch *d = atomic_rcu_read(&as->dispatch);
-        section = address_space_translate_internal(d, addr, &addr, plen, 
is_mmio);
+        section = address_space_translate_internal(d, addr, &addr, &plen, 
is_mmio);
         mr = section->mr;
 
         if (!mr->iommu_ops) {
@@ -490,7 +514,8 @@ static MemoryRegionSection 
address_space_do_translate(AddressSpace *as,
                                          IOMMU_WO : IOMMU_RO);
         addr = ((iotlb.translated_addr & ~iotlb.addr_mask)
                 | (addr & iotlb.addr_mask));
-        *plen = MIN(*plen, (addr | iotlb.addr_mask) - addr + 1);
+        page_mask = iotlb.addr_mask;
+        plen = MIN(plen, (addr | iotlb.addr_mask) - addr + 1);
         if (!(iotlb.perm & (1 << is_write))) {
             goto translate_fail;
         }
@@ -500,6 +525,14 @@ static MemoryRegionSection 
address_space_do_translate(AddressSpace *as,
 
     *xlat = addr;
 
+    if (page_mask_out) {
+        *page_mask_out = page_mask;
+    }
+
+    if (plen_out) {
+        *plen_out = plen;
+    }
+
     return *section;
 
 translate_fail:
@@ -518,7 +551,7 @@ IOMMUTLBEntry address_space_get_iotlb_entry(AddressSpace 
*as, hwaddr addr,
 
     /* This can never be MMIO. */
     section = address_space_do_translate(as, addr, &xlat, &plen,
-                                         is_write, false);
+                                         NULL, is_write, false);
 
     /* Illegal translation */
     if (section.mr == &io_mem_unassigned) {
@@ -560,7 +593,8 @@ MemoryRegion *address_space_translate(AddressSpace *as, 
hwaddr addr,
     MemoryRegionSection section;
 
     /* This can be MMIO, so setup MMIO bit. */
-    section = address_space_do_translate(as, addr, xlat, plen, is_write, true);
+    section = address_space_do_translate(as, addr, xlat, plen,
+                                         NULL, is_write, true);
     mr = section.mr;
 
     if (xen_enabled() && memory_access_is_direct(mr, is_write)) {
-- 
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