On 7/14/23 14:49, Joelle van Dyne wrote:
On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 11:41 AM Stefan Berger <stef...@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
On 7/14/23 14:22, Stefan Berger wrote:
On 7/14/23 13:04, Joelle van Dyne wrote:
On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 7:51 AM Stefan Berger <stef...@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
On 7/14/23 10:05, Stefan Berger wrote:
On 7/14/23 03:09, Joelle van Dyne wrote:
When we moved to a single mapping and modified TPM CRB's VMState, it
broke restoring of VMs that were saved on an older version. This
change allows those VMs to gracefully migrate to the new memory
mapping.
Thanks. This has to be in 4/11 though.
After applying the whole series and trying to resume state taken with current
git
master I cannot restore it but it leads to this error here. I would just leave
it
completely untouched in 4/11.
2023-07-14T14:46:34.547550Z qemu-system-x86_64: Unknown ramblock "tpm-crb-cmd",
cannot accept migration
2023-07-14T14:46:34.547799Z qemu-system-x86_64: error while loading state for
instance 0x0 of device 'ram'
2023-07-14T14:46:34.547835Z qemu-system-x86_64: load of migration failed:
Invalid argument
Stefan
To be clear, you are asking to back out of 4/11? That patch changes
how the registers are mapped so it's impossible to support the old
style register mapping. This patch attempts to fix that with a
Why can we not keep the old style register mapping as 'secondary mapping'?
I think the first goal should be for existing TPM CRB device not to change
anything, they
keep their .read and .write behaivor as it.
If you need different .read behavior for the sysbus device due to AARCH64 then
it may want to use its own MemoryRegionOps.
I am fairly sure that you could refactor the core of the existing
tpm_crb_mmio_write() and have it work on s->regs and mmio regs.
The former would be used by existing code, the latter for CRB sysbus calling
into this new function from a wrapper.
Stefan
I agree that new QEMU should be able to read old QEMU state but vice
versa is not always true. There's been many changes in the past that
incremented the vmstate's version_id to indicate that the state format
has changed. Also, we are not changing the .read behavior because in
Unfortunately the CRB device is being used by x86 on some distros
and the expectation is that this existing device can also downgrade
to a previous version of QEMU I would say. I have read people migrating
from RHEL 9.x even to RHEL 8.x and the expectation is that this works.
Now you are introducing a new device and I think you can leave
the existing device with its s->regs alone and have the new device
with its mmio regs work a little different just to preserve the QEMU
downgrade for x86.
the old code, the only field that gets a dynamic update is
tpmEstablished which we found is never changed. So effectively, .read
Correct and that's why you don't need a .read in the new device.
is just doing a memcpy of the `regs` state. This makes it possible to
map the page as memory while retaining the same behavior as before.
(We are changing the code but not the behavior).
The issue with Windows's buggy tpm.sys driver is that fundamentally it
cannot work with MemoryRegionOps. The way MMIO is implemented is that
At least not with the .read part as it seems and you have to have the
.write part to be able to react to cmd transfers etc.
a hole is left in the guest memory space so when the device registers
are accessed, the hypervisor traps it and sends it over to QEMU to
handle. QEMU looks up the address, sees its a valid MMIO mapping, and
calls into the MemoryRegionOps implementation. When tpm.sys does a LDP
instruction access to the hole, the information for QEMU to determine
if it's a valid access is not provided. Other hypervisors like Apple's
VZ.framework and VMware will read the guest PC, manually decode the
AArch64 instruction, determine the type of access, read the guest Rn
registers, does a TLB lookup to determine the physical address, then
emulate the MMIO. None of this capability currently exists in QEMU's
ARM64 backend. That's why we decided the easier path is to tell QEMU
that this mapping is RAM for read purposes and MMIO only for write
purposes (thankfully Windows does not do a STP or we'd be hosed).
Thanks, this confirms what I thought.
Stefan