linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] powerpc/pseries: Interface to represent PAPR firmware attributes

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Message-ID: <7c360913-3215-e99b-0d58-adc604bb1d8f@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Mon, 12 Jul 2021 13:13:02 +0530
From:   Pratik Sampat <psampat@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     ego@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:     mpe@...erman.id.au, benh@...nel.crashing.org, paulus@...ba.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, kvm-ppc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, pratik.r.sampat@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] powerpc/pseries: Interface to represent PAPR
 firmware attributes



On 08/07/21 4:05 pm, Gautham R Shenoy wrote:
> Hello Pratik,
>
> On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 01:54:00PM +0530, Pratik R. Sampat wrote:
>> Adds a generic interface to represent the energy and frequency related
>> PAPR attributes on the system using the new H_CALL
>> "H_GET_ENERGY_SCALE_INFO".
>>
>> H_GET_EM_PARMS H_CALL was previously responsible for exporting this
>> information in the lparcfg, however the H_GET_EM_PARMS H_CALL
>> will be deprecated P10 onwards.
>>
>> The H_GET_ENERGY_SCALE_INFO H_CALL is of the following call format:
>> hcall(
>>    uint64 H_GET_ENERGY_SCALE_INFO,  // Get energy scale info
>>    uint64 flags,           // Per the flag request
>>    uint64 firstAttributeId,// The attribute id
>>    uint64 bufferAddress,   // Guest physical address of the output buffer
>>    uint64 bufferSize       // The size in bytes of the output buffer
>> );
>>
>> This H_CALL can query either all the attributes at once with
>> firstAttributeId = 0, flags = 0 as well as query only one attribute
>> at a time with firstAttributeId = id, flags = 1.
>>
>> The output buffer consists of the following
>> 1. number of attributes              - 8 bytes
>> 2. array offset to the data location - 8 bytes
>> 3. version info                      - 1 byte
>> 4. A data array of size num attributes, which contains the following:
>>    a. attribute ID              - 8 bytes
>>    b. attribute value in number - 8 bytes
>>    c. attribute name in string  - 64 bytes
>>    d. attribute value in string - 64 bytes
>>
>> The new H_CALL exports information in direct string value format, hence
>> a new interface has been introduced in
>> /sys/firmware/papr/energy_scale_info to export this information to
>> userspace in an extensible pass-through format.
>>
>> The H_CALL returns the name, numeric value and string value (if exists)
>>
>> The format of exposing the sysfs information is as follows:
>> /sys/firmware/papr/energy_scale_info/
>>     |-- <id>/
>>       |-- desc
>>       |-- value
>>       |-- value_desc (if exists)
>>     |-- <id>/
>>       |-- desc
>>       |-- value
>>       |-- value_desc (if exists)
>> ...
>
> I like this implementation. Only one comment w.r.t versioning below:
>
> [..snip..]
>
>> @@ -631,6 +632,26 @@ struct hv_gpci_request_buffer {
>>   	uint8_t bytes[HGPCI_MAX_DATA_BYTES];
>>   } __packed;
>>
>> +#define MAX_ESI_ATTRS	10
>> +#define MAX_BUF_SZ	(sizeof(struct h_energy_scale_info_hdr) + \
>> +			(sizeof(struct energy_scale_attribute) * MAX_ESI_ATTRS))
>> +
>> +struct energy_scale_attribute {
>> +	__be64 id;
>> +	__be64 value;
>> +	unsigned char desc[64];
>> +	unsigned char value_desc[64];
>> +} __packed;
>> +
>> +struct h_energy_scale_info_hdr {
>> +	__be64 num_attrs;
>> +	__be64 array_offset;
>> +	__u8 data_header_version;
>> +} __packed;
>> +
>
> [..snip..]
>
>> +static int __init papr_init(void)
>> +{
>> +	uint64_t num_attrs;
>> +	int ret, idx, i;
>> +	char *esi_buf;
>> +
>> +	if (!firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_LPAR))
>> +		return -ENXIO;
>> +
>> +	esi_buf = kmalloc(MAX_BUF_SZ, GFP_KERNEL);
>> +	if (esi_buf == NULL)
>> +		return -ENOMEM;
>> +	/*
>> +	 * hcall(
>> +	 * uint64 H_GET_ENERGY_SCALE_INFO,  // Get energy scale info
>> +	 * uint64 flags,            // Per the flag request
>> +	 * uint64 firstAttributeId, // The attribute id
>> +	 * uint64 bufferAddress,    // Guest physical address of the output buffer
>> +	 * uint64 bufferSize);      // The size in bytes of the output buffer
>> +	 */
>> +	ret = plpar_hcall_norets(H_GET_ENERGY_SCALE_INFO, ESI_FLAGS_ALL, 0,
>> +				 virt_to_phys(esi_buf), MAX_BUF_SZ);
>
> It is good that you are passing a character buffer here and
> interpreting it later. This helps in the cases where the header has
> more fields than what we are aware of changed. I think even a future
> platform adds newer fields to the header, those fields will be
> appended after the existing fields, so we should still be able to
> interpret the first three fields of the header that we are currently
> aware of.
>
>
>> +	if (ret != H_SUCCESS) {
>> +		pr_warn("hcall failed: H_GET_ENERGY_SCALE_INFO");
>> +		goto out;
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	esi_hdr = (struct h_energy_scale_info_hdr *) esi_buf;
>> +	num_attrs = be64_to_cpu(esi_hdr->num_attrs);
>
> Shouldn't we check for the esi_hdr->data_header_version here?
> Currently we are only aware of the version 1. If we happen to run this
> kernel code on a future platform which supports a different version,
> wouldn't it be safer to bail out here ?
>
> Otherwise this patch looks good to me.
>
> Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <ego@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Thanks for the review Gautham.
Sure I'll make use of the header version to bail out.
That just seems like the safest approach.

I'll add that and spin a new version here

Thanks
Pratik

> --
> Thanks and Regards
> gautham.