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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] pseries: Implements h_read hcall
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Erlon Cruz |
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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] pseries: Implements h_read hcall |
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Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:44:34 -0200 |
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 10:10 PM, David Gibson
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 09:28:20AM -0200, Erlon Cruz wrote:
> > From: Erlon Cruz <address@hidden>
> >
> > This h_call is useful for DLPAR in future amongst other things. Given an
> > index
> > it fetches the corresponding PTE stored in the htab.
>
> Nice. It would be good to add in this little bit of PAPR compliance.
>
> Couple of small nits in the implementation:
>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Erlon Cruz <address@hidden>
> > ---
> > hw/spapr_hcall.c | 58
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 58 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/hw/spapr_hcall.c b/hw/spapr_hcall.c
> > index 2889742..5ba07e5 100644
> > --- a/hw/spapr_hcall.c
> > +++ b/hw/spapr_hcall.c
> > @@ -323,6 +323,63 @@ static target_ulong h_protect(PowerPCCPU *cpu,
> > sPAPREnvironment *spapr,
> > return H_SUCCESS;
> > }
> >
> > +static target_ulong h_read(PowerPCCPU *cpu, sPAPREnvironment *spapr,
> > + target_ulong opcode, target_ulong *args)
> > +{
> > + CPUPPCState *env = &cpu->env;
> > + target_ulong flags = args[0];
> > + target_ulong pte_index = args[1];
> > + uint8_t *hpte;
> > +
> > + if ((pte_index * HASH_PTE_SIZE_64) & ~env->htab_mask) {
> > + return H_PARAMETER;
> > + }
> > +
> > + if (!(flags & H_READ_4)) {
>
> It would be nice to combine the H_READ_4 and !H_READ_4 paths together,
> since except for the masking and stopping sooner the !H_READ_4 path is
> just like the H_READ_4 path.
Ok.
>
>
> > + target_ulong v, r;
> > + target_ulong *pteh = &args[0];
> > + target_ulong *ptel = &args[1];
> > +
> > + hpte = env->external_htab + (pte_index * HASH_PTE_SIZE_64);
> > +
> > + v = ldq_p(hpte);
> > + r = ldq_p(hpte + (HASH_PTE_SIZE_64/2));
> > +
> > + if (flags & H_R_XLATE) {
> > + /* FIXME: include a valid logical page num in the pte */
>
> This comment is misleading. Since you do copy out both words of the
> hpte, and qemu stores the external_htab in terms of guest physical (==
> logical) addresses, in fact you're *always* supplying a valid logical
> page num. So you've already correctly implemented the flag as a
> no-op.
>
> I believe that flag is included for the benefit of a true hypervisor,
> where the native htab would be stored as true physical addresses, and
> it might be expensive for the hypervisor to recompute the logical
> address.
>
Ok, then I think we can just skip this checking.
> That said, I actually wrote such helpers about 15 minutes ago as part
> of my MMU cleanup series.
Should I wait for the helpers to send It again?
>
> --
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