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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] nestedhvm: ASID emulation

To: Keir Fraser <keir.xen@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] nestedhvm: ASID emulation
From: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:01:56 +0200
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On 04/14/11 12:28, Keir Fraser wrote:
On 14/04/2011 10:26, "Christoph Egger"<Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>  wrote:

What if nv_n2asid wast last assigned on a previous generation, but nv_n1asid
was assigned from the current generation? Then you'd have next_asid>
nv_n2asid, but nv_n2asid is stale.

When the generation changes, next_asid is set back to 1 and the hw TLB
flushed.

If next_asid is larger than nv_n2asid then it is reused and this is ok
since the hw TLB got flushed. It is just important that nv_n1asid never
gets the same hw ASID assigned and that is what the do { } while loop
ensures.

What if some other vcpu's nv_n1asid or nv_n2asid got assigned the same HW
asid in this generation as this vcpu's (now stale, as it's from a previous
generation's) nv_n2asid? This PCPU can be interleaving execution of other
HVM VCPUs after all.

I am not sure if I got you right. You mean what if two vcpus run on one
physical cpu? In this case svm_do_resume() calls hvm_asid_flush_vcpu() before so that asid_generation and core_asid_generation do not match and a new asid is always assigned.

Christoph

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