On 31/05/2024 16.02, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
* Thomas Huth (th...@redhat.com) wrote:
On 30/05/2024 09.45, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
We are trying to unify all qemu-system-FOO to a single binary.
In order to do that we need to remove QAPI target specific code.
@dump-skeys is only available on qemu-system-s390x. This series
rename it as @dump-s390-skey, making it available on other
binaries. We take care of backward compatibility via deprecation.
Philippe Mathieu-Daudé (4):
hw/s390x: Introduce the @dump-s390-skeys QMP command
hw/s390x: Introduce the 'dump_s390_skeys' HMP command
hw/s390x: Deprecate the HMP 'dump_skeys' command
hw/s390x: Deprecate the QMP @dump-skeys command
Why do we have to rename the command? Just for the sake of it? I think
renaming HMP commands is maybe ok, but breaking the API in QMP is something
you should consider twice.
And even if we decide to rename ... maybe we should discuss whether it makes
sense to come up with a generic command instead: As far as I know, ARM also
has something similar, called MTE. Maybe we also want to dump MTE keys one
day? So the new command should maybe be called "dump-memory-keys" instead?
I think there are at least two different concepts; but I agree it would be
nice to keep a single command for matching concepts across different
architectures;
I can't say I know the details of any, but:
a) Page table things - I think x86 PKRU/PKEY (???) is a page table thing
where pages marked a special way are associated with keys.
That sounds similar to what the skeys are???
Sounds a little bit similar, but s390 storage keys are independent from page
tables. It's rather that each page (4096 bytes) of RAM has an additional
7-bit value that contains the storage key and some additional bits. It's
also usable when page tables are still disabled.
> I'm not sure the two fit in the same command.
Does it make sense to dump all the MTE or x86 keys all at once? If so, we
could maybe come up with an unified command. Otherwise it might not make
sense, indeed.
Thomas
