Current ppc_set_compat() will attempt to set any compatiblity mode
specified, regardless of whether it's available on the CPU. The caller is
expected to make sure it is setting a possible mode, which is awkwward
because most of the information to make that decision is at the CPU level.
This begins to clean this up by introducing a ppc_check_compat() function
which will determine if a given compatiblity mode is supported on a CPU
(and also whether it lies within specified minimum and maximum compat
levels, which will be useful later). It also contains an assertion that
the CPU has a "virtual hypervisor"[1], that is, that the guest isn't
permitted to execute hypervisor privilege code. Without that, the guest
would own the PCR and so could override any mode set here. Only machine
types which use a virtual hypervisor (i.e. 'pseries') should use
ppc_check_compat().
ppc_set_compat() is modified to validate the compatibility mode it is given
and fail if it's not available on this CPU.
[1] Or user-only mode, which also obviously doesn't allow access to the
hypervisor privileged PCR. We don't use that now, but could in future.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
To continue consolidation of compatibility mode information, this rewrites
the ppc_get_compat_smt_threads() function using the table of compatiblity
modes in target-ppc/compat.c.
It's not a direct replacement, the new ppc_compat_max_threads() function
has simpler semantics - it just returns the number of threads the cpu
model has, taking into account any compatiblity mode it is in.
This no longer takes into account kvmppc_smt_threads() as the previous
version did. That check wasn't useful because we check in
ppc_cpu_realizefn() that CPUs aren't instantiated with more threads
than kvm allows (or if we didn't things will already be broken and
this won't make it any worse).
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
This rewrites the ppc_set_compat() function so that instead of open coding
the various compatibility modes, it reads the relevant data from a table.
This is a first step in consolidating the information on compatibility
modes scattered across the code into a single place.
It also makes one change to the logic. The old code masked the bits
to be set in the PCR (Processor Compatibility Register) by which bits
are valid on the host CPU. This made no sense, since it was done
regardless of whether our guest CPU was the same as the host CPU or
not. Furthermore, the actual PCR bits are only relevant for TCG[1] -
KVM instead uses the compatibility mode we tell it in
kvmppc_set_compat(). When using TCG host cpu information usually
isn't even present.
While we're at it, we put the new implementation in a new file to make the
enormous translate_init.c a little smaller.
[1] Actually it doesn't even do anything in TCG, but it will if / when we
get to implementing compatibility mode logic at that level.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
David Gibson