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[PATCH for-4.19 v4 00/10] x86: Expose consistent topology to guests



I've added the patches most critical to get into 4.19 at the head. They are
pretty well reviewed already and shouldn't be very contentious anymore.

v3 -> v4:
  * Fixed cpuid() bug in hvmloader, causing UB in v3
  * Fixed a bogus assert in hvmloader, also causing a crash in v3
  * Used HVM contexts rather than sync'd algos between Xen and toolstack in
    order to initialise the per-vCPU LAPIC state.
  * Formatting asjustments.

v2 -> v3:

  (v2/patch2 and v2/patch4 are already committed)

  * Moved the vlapic check hook addition to v3/patch1
    * And created a check hook for the architectural state too for consistency.
  * Fixed migrations from Xen <= 4.13 by reconstructing the previous topology.
  * Correctly set the APIC ID after a policy change when vlapic is already in
    x2APIC mode.
  * Removed bogus assumption introduced in v1 and v2 on hvmloader about which
    8bit APIC IDs represent ids > 254. (it's "id % 0xff", not "min(id, 0xff)".
        * Used an x2apic flag check instead.
  * Various formatting adjustments.

v1 -> v2:

  * v1/patch 4 replaced by a different strategy (See patches 4 and 5 in v2):
      * Have hvmloader populate MADT with the real APIC IDs as read by the APs
        themselves rather than giving it knowledge on how to derive them.
  * Removed patches 2 and 3 in v1, as no longer relevant.
  * Split v1/patch6 in two parts ((a) creating the generator and (b) plugging it
    in) and use the generator in the unit tests of the vcpuid->apicid mapping
    function. Becomes patches 6 and 8 in v2.

  Patch 1: Same as v1/patch1.
  Patch 2: Header dependency cleanup in preparation for patch3.
  Patch 3: Adds vlapic_hidden check for the newly introduced reserved area.
  Patch 4: [hvmloader] Replaces INIT+SIPI+SIPI sequences with hypercalls.
  Patch 5: [hvmloader] Retrieve the per-CPU APIC IDs from the APs themselves.
  Patch 6: Split from v1/patch6.
  Patch 7: Logically matching v1/patch5, but using v2/patch6 for testing.
  Patch 8: Split from v1/patch6.

=== Original cover letter ===

Current topology handling is close to non-existent. As things stand, APIC
IDs are allocated through the apic_id=vcpu_id*2 relation without giving any
hints to the OS on how to parse the x2APIC ID of a given CPU and assuming
the guest will assume 2 threads per core.

This series involves bringing x2APIC IDs into the migration stream, so
older guests keep operating as they used to and enhancing Xen+toolstack so
new guests get topology information consistent with their x2APIC IDs. As a
side effect of this, x2APIC IDs are now packed and don't have (unless under
a pathological case) gaps.

Further work ought to allow combining this topology configurations with
gang-scheduling of guest hyperthreads into affine physical hyperthreads.
For the time being it purposefully keeps the configuration of "1 socket" +
"1 thread per core" + "1 core per vCPU".

Patch 1: Includes x2APIC IDs in the migration stream. This allows Xen to
         reconstruct the right x2APIC IDs on migrated-in guests, and
         future-proofs itself in the face of x2APIC ID derivation changes.
Patch 2: Minor refactor to expose xc_cpu_policy in libxl
Patch 3: Refactors xen/lib/x86 to work on non-Xen freestanding environments
         (e.g: hvmloader)
Patch 4: Remove old assumptions about vcpu_id<->apic_id relationship in 
hvmloader
Patch 5: Add logic to derive x2APIC IDs given a CPU policy and vCPU IDs
Patch 6: Includes a simple topology generator for toolstack so new guests
         have topologically consistent information in CPUID



*** BLURB HERE ***

Alejandro Vallejo (10):
  tools/hvmloader: Fix non-deterministic cpuid()
  x86/vlapic: Move lapic migration checks to the check hooks
  xen/x86: Add initial x2APIC ID to the per-vLAPIC save area
  tools/hvmloader: Retrieve (x2)APIC IDs from the APs themselves
  xen/x86: Add supporting code for uploading LAPIC contexts during
    domain create
  tools/libguest: Make setting MTRR registers unconditional
  xen/lib: Add topology generator for x86
  xen/x86: Derive topologically correct x2APIC IDs from the policy
  xen/x86: Synthesise domain topologies
  tools/libguest: Set topologically correct x2APIC IDs for each vCPU

 tools/firmware/hvmloader/config.h        |   6 +-
 tools/firmware/hvmloader/hvmloader.c     |   4 +-
 tools/firmware/hvmloader/smp.c           |  54 ++++--
 tools/firmware/hvmloader/util.c          |   9 -
 tools/firmware/hvmloader/util.h          |  27 ++-
 tools/include/xen-tools/common-macros.h  |   5 +
 tools/libs/guest/xg_cpuid_x86.c          |  24 ++-
 tools/libs/guest/xg_dom_x86.c            | 114 ++++++++-----
 tools/tests/cpu-policy/test-cpu-policy.c | 201 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 xen/arch/x86/cpu-policy.c                |   9 +-
 xen/arch/x86/cpuid.c                     |  14 +-
 xen/arch/x86/hvm/vlapic.c                | 127 ++++++++++----
 xen/arch/x86/include/asm/hvm/vlapic.h    |   1 +
 xen/include/public/arch-x86/hvm/save.h   |   2 +
 xen/include/xen/lib/x86/cpu-policy.h     |  27 +++
 xen/lib/x86/policy.c                     | 164 ++++++++++++++++++
 xen/lib/x86/private.h                    |   4 +
 17 files changed, 687 insertions(+), 105 deletions(-)

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2.34.1




 


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