linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 02/12] KVM: arm64: Use kvm_arch_flush_remote

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Date:   Thu, 27 Jul 2023 11:25:25 +0100
From:   Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
To:     Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@...gle.com>
Cc:     Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@...ux.dev>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...nel.org>,
        Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@...wei.com>,
        Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>,
        Atish Patra <atishp@...shpatra.org>,
        Jing Zhang <jingzhangos@...gle.com>,
        Reiji Watanabe <reijiw@...gle.com>,
        Colton Lewis <coltonlewis@...gle.com>,
        David Matlack <dmatlack@...gle.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, kvmarm@...ts.linux.dev,
        linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, kvm-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 02/12] KVM: arm64: Use kvm_arch_flush_remote_tlbs()

On Sat, 22 Jul 2023 03:22:41 +0100,
Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@...gle.com> wrote:
> 
> Stop depending on CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_ARCH_TLB_FLUSH_ALL and opt to
> standardize on kvm_arch_flush_remote_tlbs() since it avoids
> duplicating the generic TLB stats across architectures that implement
> their own remote TLB flush.
> 
> This adds an extra function call to the ARM64 kvm_flush_remote_tlbs()
> path, but that is a small cost in comparison to flushing remote TLBs.

Well, there is no such thing as a "remote TLB" anyway. We either have
a non-shareable or inner-shareable invalidation. The notion of remote
would imply that we track who potentially has a TLB, which we
obviously don't.

More x86 nonsense...

>
> In addition, instead of just incrementing remote_tlb_flush_requests
> stat, the generic interface would also increment the
> remote_tlb_flush stat.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@...gle.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 3 +++
>  arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig            | 1 -
>  arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c              | 6 +++---
>  3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> index 8b6096753740..7281222f24ef 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> @@ -1111,6 +1111,9 @@ int __init kvm_set_ipa_limit(void);
>  #define __KVM_HAVE_ARCH_VM_ALLOC
>  struct kvm *kvm_arch_alloc_vm(void);
>  
> +#define __KVM_HAVE_ARCH_FLUSH_REMOTE_TLBS
> +int kvm_arch_flush_remote_tlbs(struct kvm *kvm);

See my earlier comment about making this prototype global.

	M.

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