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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 8/8] viridian: introduce struct viridian_page



On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 06:02:11PM +0000, Paul Durrant wrote:
> The 'vp_assist' page is currently an example of a guest page which needs to
> be kept mapped throughout the life-time of a guest, but there are other
> such examples in the specifiction [1]. This patch therefore introduces a
> generic 'viridian_page' type and converts the current vp_assist/apic_assist
> related code to use it. Subsequent patches implementing other enlightments
> can then also make use of it.
> 
> This patch also renames the 'vp_assist_pending' field in struct
> hvm_viridian_vcpu_context to 'apic_assist_pending' to more accurately
> reflect its meaning. The term 'vp_assist' applies to the whole page rather
> than just the EOI-avoidance enlightenment. New versons of the specification
> have defined data structures for other enlightenments within the same page.
> 
> No functional change.
> 
> [1] 
> https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Virtualization-Documentation/raw/live/tlfs/Hypervisor%20Top%20Level%20Functional%20Specification%20v5.0C.pdf
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  tools/misc/xen-hvmctx.c                |  4 +--
>  xen/arch/x86/hvm/viridian/synic.c      | 47 
> ++++++++++++++++------------------
>  xen/include/asm-x86/hvm/viridian.h     | 13 ++++++----
>  xen/include/public/arch-x86/hvm/save.h |  2 +-
>  4 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/misc/xen-hvmctx.c b/tools/misc/xen-hvmctx.c
> index 40e77851be..a4efadf307 100644
> --- a/tools/misc/xen-hvmctx.c
> +++ b/tools/misc/xen-hvmctx.c
> @@ -370,9 +370,9 @@ static void dump_viridian_vcpu(void)
>  {
>      HVM_SAVE_TYPE(VIRIDIAN_VCPU) p;
>      READ(p);
> -    printf("    VIRIDIAN_VCPU: vp_assist_msr 0x%llx, vp_assist_pending %s\n",
> +    printf("    VIRIDIAN_VCPU: vp_assist_msr 0x%llx, apic_assist_pending 
> %s\n",
>          (unsigned long long) p.vp_assist_msr,
> -        p.vp_assist_pending ? "true" : "false");
> +        p.apic_assist_pending ? "true" : "false");

There's some hardcoded tabs in the above line, would you mind fixing
them since you are already touching this code?

Thanks, Roger.

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