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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 02/34] x86/HVM: grow MMIO cache data size to 64 bytes



>>> On 25.10.18 at 20:36, <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 18/09/18 12:53, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> This is needed before enabling any AVX512 insns in the emulator. Change
>> the way alignment is enforced at the same time.
>>
>> Add a check that the buffer won't actually overflow, and while at it
>> also convert the check for accesses to not cross page boundaries.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> v3: New.
>>
>> --- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/emulate.c
>> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/emulate.c
>> @@ -866,7 +866,18 @@ static int hvmemul_phys_mmio_access(
>>      int rc = X86EMUL_OKAY;
>>  
>>      /* Accesses must fall within a page. */
>> -    BUG_ON((gpa & ~PAGE_MASK) + size > PAGE_SIZE);
>> +    if ( (gpa & ~PAGE_MASK) + size > PAGE_SIZE )
>> +    {
>> +        ASSERT_UNREACHABLE();
>> +        return X86EMUL_UNHANDLEABLE;
>> +    }
>> +
>> +    /* Accesses must not overflow the cache's buffer. */
>> +    if ( size > sizeof(cache->buffer) )
>> +    {
>> +        ASSERT_UNREACHABLE();
>> +        return X86EMUL_UNHANDLEABLE;
>> +    }
>>  
>>      /*
>>       * hvmemul_do_io() cannot handle non-power-of-2 accesses or
>> --- a/xen/include/asm-x86/hvm/vcpu.h
>> +++ b/xen/include/asm-x86/hvm/vcpu.h
>> @@ -42,15 +42,14 @@ struct hvm_vcpu_asid {
>>  };
>>  
>>  /*
>> - * We may read or write up to m256 as a number of device-model
>> + * We may read or write up to m512 as a number of device-model
>>   * transactions.
>>   */
>>  struct hvm_mmio_cache {
>>      unsigned long gla;
>>      unsigned int size;
>>      uint8_t dir;
>> -    uint8_t pad[3]; /* make buffer[] long-aligned */
>> -    uint8_t buffer[32];
>> +    uint8_t buffer[64] __aligned(sizeof(long));
> 
> Don't we want it 16-byte aligned, rather than 8?

Why? We don't access the buffer via SIMD insns.

Jan



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