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Date:   Wed, 21 Apr 2021 10:00:26 +0000
From:   Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>
To:     Vineeth Pillai <viremana@...ux.microsoft.com>
Cc:     Lan Tianyu <Tianyu.Lan@...rosoft.com>,
        Michael Kelley <mikelley@...rosoft.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] hyperv: SVM enlightened TLB flush support flag

On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 01:43:37PM +0000, Vineeth Pillai wrote:
> Bit 22 of HYPERV_CPUID_FEATURES.EDX is specific to SVM and specifies
> support for enlightened TLB flush. With this enlightenment enabled,
> ASID invalidations flushes only gva->hpa entries. To flush TLB entries
> derived from NPT, hypercalls should be used
> (HvFlushGuestPhysicalAddressSpace or HvFlushGuestPhysicalAddressList)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vineeth Pillai <viremana@...ux.microsoft.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/hyperv-tlfs.h | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/hyperv-tlfs.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/hyperv-tlfs.h
> index 606f5cc579b2..005bf14d0449 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/hyperv-tlfs.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/hyperv-tlfs.h
> @@ -133,6 +133,15 @@
>  #define HV_X64_NESTED_GUEST_MAPPING_FLUSH		BIT(18)
>  #define HV_X64_NESTED_MSR_BITMAP			BIT(19)
>  
> +/*
> + * This is specific to AMD and specifies that enlightened TLB flush is
> + * supported. If guest opts in to this feature, ASID invalidations only
> + * flushes gva -> hpa mapping entries. To flush the TLB entries derived
> + * from NPT, hypercalls should be used (HvFlushGuestPhysicalAddressSpace
> + * or HvFlushGuestPhysicalAddressList).
> + */
> +#define HV_X64_NESTED_ENLIGHTENED_TLB			BIT(22)
> +

This is not yet documented in TLFS, right? I can't find this bit in the
latest edition (6.0b).

My first thought is the comment says this is AMD specific but the name
is rather generic. That looks a bit odd to begin with.

Wei.

>  /* HYPERV_CPUID_ISOLATION_CONFIG.EAX bits. */
>  #define HV_PARAVISOR_PRESENT				BIT(0)
>  
> -- 
> 2.25.1
>