Re: [PATCH v5 4/5] i386/pc: relocate 4g start to 1T where applicable

[Igor Mammedov]

On Mon, 20 Jun 2022 19:13:46 +0100
Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> wrote:

> On 6/20/22 17:36, Joao Martins wrote:
> > On 6/20/22 15:27, Igor Mammedov wrote:  
> >> On Fri, 17 Jun 2022 14:33:02 +0100
> >> Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> wrote:  
> >>> On 6/17/22 13:32, Igor Mammedov wrote:  
> >>>> On Fri, 17 Jun 2022 13:18:38 +0100
> >>>> Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> wrote:    
> >>>>> On 6/16/22 15:23, Igor Mammedov wrote:    
> >>>>>> On Fri, 20 May 2022 11:45:31 +0100
> >>>>>> Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> wrote:    
> >>>>>>> +                                hwaddr above_4g_mem_start,
> >>>>>>> +                                uint64_t pci_hole64_size)
> >>>>>>> +{
> >>>>>>> +    PCMachineClass *pcmc = PC_MACHINE_GET_CLASS(pcms);
> >>>>>>> +    X86MachineState *x86ms = X86_MACHINE(pcms);
> >>>>>>> +    MachineState *machine = MACHINE(pcms);
> >>>>>>> +    ram_addr_t device_mem_size = 0;
> >>>>>>> +    hwaddr base;
> >>>>>>> +
> >>>>>>> +    if (!x86ms->above_4g_mem_size) {
> >>>>>>> +       /*
> >>>>>>> +        * 32-bit pci hole goes from
> >>>>>>> +        * end-of-low-ram (@below_4g_mem_size) to IOAPIC.
> >>>>>>> +        */
> >>>>>>> +        return IO_APIC_DEFAULT_ADDRESS - 1;      
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> lack of above_4g_mem, doesn't mean absence of device_mem_size or 
> >>>>>> anything else
> >>>>>> that's located above it.
> >>>>>>       
> >>>>>
> >>>>> True. But the intent is to fix 32-bit boundaries as one of the qtests 
> >>>>> was failing
> >>>>> otherwise. We won't hit the 1T hole, hence a nop.    
> >>>>
> >>>> I don't get the reasoning, can you clarify it pls?
> >>>>     
> >>>
> >>> I was trying to say that what lead me here was a couple of qtests 
> >>> failures (from v3->v4).
> >>>
> >>> I was doing this before based on pci_hole64. phys-bits=32 was for example 
> >>> one
> >>> of the test failures, and pci-hole64 sits above what 32-bit can 
> >>> reference.  
> >>
> >> if user sets phys-bits=32, then nothing above 4Gb should work (be usable)
> >> (including above-4g-ram, hotplug region or pci64 hole or sgx or cxl)
> >>
> >> and this doesn't look to me as AMD specific issue
> >>
> >> perhaps do a phys-bits check as a separate patch
> >> that will error out if max_used_gpa is above phys-bits limit
> >> (maybe at machine_done time)
> >> (i.e. defining max_gpa and checking if compatible with configured cpu
> >> are 2 different things)
> >>
> >> (it might be possible that tests need to be fixed too to account for it)
> >>  
> > 
> > My old notes (from v3) tell me with such a check these tests were exiting 
> > early thanks to
> > that error:
> > 
> >  1/56 qemu:qtest+qtest-x86_64 / qtest-x86_64/qom-test               ERROR   
> >         0.07s
> >   killed by signal 6 SIGABRT
> >  4/56 qemu:qtest+qtest-x86_64 / qtest-x86_64/test-hmp               ERROR   
> >         0.07s
> >   killed by signal 6 SIGABRT
> >  7/56 qemu:qtest+qtest-x86_64 / qtest-x86_64/boot-serial-test       ERROR   
> >         0.07s
> >   killed by signal 6 SIGABRT
> > 44/56 qemu:qtest+qtest-x86_64 / qtest-x86_64/test-x86-cpuid-compat  ERROR   
> >         0.09s
> >   killed by signal 6 SIGABRT
> > 45/56 qemu:qtest+qtest-x86_64 / qtest-x86_64/numa-test              ERROR   
> >         0.17s
> >   killed by signal 6 SIGABRT
> > 
> > But the real reason these fail is not at all related to CPU phys bits,
> > but because we just don't handle the case where no pci_hole64 is supposed 
> > to exist (which
> > is what that other check is trying to do) e.g. A VM with -m 1G would
> > observe the same thing i.e. the computations after that conditional are all 
> > for the pci
> > hole64, which acounts for SGX/CXL/hotplug or etc which consequently means 
> > it's *errousnly*
> > bigger than phys-bits=32 (by definition). So the error_report is just 
> > telling me that
> > pc_max_used_gpa() is just incorrect without the !x86ms->above_4g_mem_size 
> > check.
> > 
> > If you're not fond of:
> > 
> > +    if (!x86ms->above_4g_mem_size) {
> > +       /*
> > +        * 32-bit pci hole goes from
> > +        * end-of-low-ram (@below_4g_mem_size) to IOAPIC.
> > +         */
> > +        return IO_APIC_DEFAULT_ADDRESS - 1;
> > +    }
> > 
> > Then what should I use instead of the above?
> > 
> > 'IO_APIC_DEFAULT_ADDRESS - 1' is the size of the 32-bit PCI hole, which is
> > also what is used for i440fx/q35 code. I could move it to a macro (e.g.
> > PCI_HOST_HOLE32_SIZE) to make it a bit readable and less hardcoded. Or
> > perhaps your problem is on !x86ms->above_4g_mem_size and maybe I should 
> > check
> > in addition for hotplug/CXL/etc existence?
> >   
> >>>>>  Unless we plan on using
> >>>>> pc_max_used_gpa() for something else other than this.    
> >>>>
> >>>> Even if '!above_4g_mem_sizem', we can still have hotpluggable memory 
> >>>> region
> >>>> present and that can  hit 1Tb. The same goes for pci64_hole if it's 
> >>>> configured
> >>>> large enough on CLI.
> >>>>     
> >>> So hotpluggable memory seems to assume it sits above 4g mem.
> >>>
> >>> pci_hole64 likewise as it uses similar computations as hotplug.
> >>>
> >>> Unless I am misunderstanding something here.
> >>>  
> >>>> Looks like guesstimate we could use is taking pci64_hole_end as max used 
> >>>> GPA
> >>>>     
> >>> I think this was what I had before (v3[0]) and did not work.  
> >>
> >> that had been tied to host's phys-bits directly, all in one patch
> >> and duplicating existing pc_pci_hole64_start().
> >>    
> > 
> > Duplicating was sort of my bad attempt in this patch for pc_max_used_gpa()
> > 
> > I was sort of thinking to something like extracting calls to start + size 
> > "tuple" into
> > functions -- e.g. for hotplug it is pc_get_device_memory_range() and for 
> > CXL it would be
> > maybe pc_get_cxl_range()) -- rather than assuming those values are already 
> > initialized on
> > the memory-region @base and its size.
> > 
> > See snippet below. Note I am missing CXL handling, but gives you the idea.
> > 
> > But it is slightly more complex than what I had in this version :( and 
> > would require
> > anyone doing changes in pc_memory_init() and pc_pci_hole64_start() to make 
> > sure it follows
> > the similar logic.
> >   
> 
> Ignore previous snippet, here's a slightly cleaner version:

lets go with this version

> 
> diff --git a/hw/i386/pc.c b/hw/i386/pc.c
> index 8eaa32ee2106..1d97c77a5eac 100644
> --- a/hw/i386/pc.c
> +++ b/hw/i386/pc.c
> @@ -803,6 +803,43 @@ void xen_load_linux(PCMachineState *pcms)
>  #define PC_ROM_ALIGN       0x800
>  #define PC_ROM_SIZE        (PC_ROM_MAX - PC_ROM_MIN_VGA)
> 
> +static void pc_get_device_memory_range(PCMachineState *pcms,
> +                                       hwaddr *base,
> +                                       hwaddr *device_mem_size)
> +{
> +    PCMachineClass *pcmc = PC_MACHINE_GET_CLASS(pcms);
> +    X86MachineState *x86ms = X86_MACHINE(pcms);
> +    MachineState *machine = MACHINE(pcms);
> +    hwaddr addr, size;
> +
> +    if (pcmc->has_reserved_memory &&
> +        machine->device_memory && machine->device_memory->base) {
> +        addr = machine->device_memory->base;
> +        size = memory_region_size(&machine->device_memory->mr);
> +        goto out;
> +    }
> +
> +    /* uninitialized memory region */
> +    size = machine->maxram_size - machine->ram_size;
> +
> +    if (pcms->sgx_epc.size != 0) {
> +        addr = sgx_epc_above_4g_end(&pcms->sgx_epc);
> +    } else {
> +        addr = x86ms->above_4g_mem_start + x86ms->above_4g_mem_size;
> +    }
> +
> +    if (pcmc->enforce_aligned_dimm) {
> +        /* size device region assuming 1G page max alignment per slot */
> +        size += (1 * GiB) * machine->ram_slots;
> +    }
> +
> +out:
> +    if (base)
> +        *base = addr;
> +    if (device_mem_size)
> +        *device_mem_size = size;
> +}
> +
>  void pc_memory_init(PCMachineState *pcms,
>                      MemoryRegion *system_memory,
>                      MemoryRegion *rom_memory,
> @@ -864,7 +901,7 @@ void pc_memory_init(PCMachineState *pcms,
>      /* initialize device memory address space */
>      if (pcmc->has_reserved_memory &&
>          (machine->ram_size < machine->maxram_size)) {
> -        ram_addr_t device_mem_size = machine->maxram_size - 
> machine->ram_size;
> +        ram_addr_t device_mem_size;
> 
>          if (machine->ram_slots > ACPI_MAX_RAM_SLOTS) {
>              error_report("unsupported amount of memory slots: %"PRIu64,
> @@ -879,20 +916,7 @@ void pc_memory_init(PCMachineState *pcms,
>              exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
>          }
> 
> -        if (pcms->sgx_epc.size != 0) {
> -            machine->device_memory->base = 
> sgx_epc_above_4g_end(&pcms->sgx_epc);
> -        } else {
> -            machine->device_memory->base =
> -                x86ms->above_4g_mem_start + x86ms->above_4g_mem_size;
> -        }
> -
> -        machine->device_memory->base =
> -            ROUND_UP(machine->device_memory->base, 1 * GiB);
> -
> -        if (pcmc->enforce_aligned_dimm) {
> -            /* size device region assuming 1G page max alignment per slot */
> -            device_mem_size += (1 * GiB) * machine->ram_slots;
> -        }
> +        pc_get_device_memory_range(pcms, &machine->device_memory->base, 
> &device_mem_size);
> 
>          if ((machine->device_memory->base + device_mem_size) <
>              device_mem_size) {
> @@ -965,12 +989,13 @@ uint64_t pc_pci_hole64_start(void)
>      PCMachineClass *pcmc = PC_MACHINE_GET_CLASS(pcms);
>      MachineState *ms = MACHINE(pcms);
>      X86MachineState *x86ms = X86_MACHINE(pcms);
> -    uint64_t hole64_start = 0;
> +    uint64_t hole64_start = 0, size = 0;
> 
> -    if (pcmc->has_reserved_memory && ms->device_memory->base) {
> -        hole64_start = ms->device_memory->base;
> +    if (pcmc->has_reserved_memory &&
> +        (ms->ram_size < ms->maxram_size)) {
> +        pc_get_device_memory_range(pcms, &hole64_start, &size);
>          if (!pcmc->broken_reserved_end) {
> -            hole64_start += memory_region_size(&ms->device_memory->mr);
> +            hole64_start += size;
>          }
>      } else if (pcms->sgx_epc.size != 0) {
>              hole64_start = sgx_epc_above_4g_end(&pcms->sgx_epc);
>