[PATCH v7 0/9] Enable Sub-Page Write Protection Support

[Yang Weijiang]

EPT-Based Sub-Page write Protection(SPP) allows Virtual Machine Monitor(VMM)
specify write-permission for guest physical memory at a sub-page(128 byte)
granularity. When SPP works, HW enforces write-access check for sub-pages
within a protected 4KB page.

The feature targets to provide fine-grained memory protection for
usages such as memory guard and VM introspection etc.

SPP is active when the "sub-page write protection" (bit 23) is 1 in
Secondary VM-Execution Controls. The feature is backed with a Sub-Page
Permission Table(SPPT), and subpage permission vector is stored in the
leaf entry of SPPT. The root page is referenced via a Sub-Page Permission
Table Pointer (SPPTP) in VMCS.

To enable SPP for guest memory, the guest page should be first mapped
to a 4KB EPT entry, then set SPP bit 61 of the corresponding entry. 
While HW walks EPT, it traverses SPPT with the gpa to look up the sub-page
permission vector within SPPT leaf entry. If the corresponding bit is set,
write to sub-page is permitted, otherwise, SPP induced EPT violation is generated.

This patch serial passed SPP function test and selftest on Ice-Lake platform.

Please refer to the SPP introduction document in this patch set and
Intel SDM for details:

Intel SDM:
https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/39/c5/325462-sdm-vol-1-2abcd-3abcd.pdf

SPP selftest patch:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/6/18/1197

Patch 1: Documentation for SPP and related API.
Patch 2: Add control flags for Sub-Page Protection(SPP).
Patch 3: Add SPP Table setup functions.
Patch 4: Add functions to create/destroy SPP bitmap block.
Patch 5: Introduce user-space SPP IOCTLs.
Patch 6: Set up SPP paging table at vmentry/vmexit.
Patch 7: Enable Lazy mode SPP protection.
Patch 8: Handle SPP protected pages when VM memory changes.
Patch 9: Add SPP protection check in emulation case.


Change logs:
V6 -> V7:
  1. Configured all available protected pages once SPP induced vmexit
     happens since there's no PRESENT bit in SPPT leaf entry.
  2. Changed SPP protection check flow in tdp_page_fault().
  3. Code refactor and minior fixes.

V5 -> V6:
  1. Added SPP protection patch for emulation cases per Jim's review.
  2. Modified documentation and added API description per Jim's review.
  3. Other minior changes suggested by Jim.

V4 -> V5:
  1. Enable SPP support for Hugepage(1GB/2MB) to extend application.
  2. Make SPP miss vm-exit handler as the unified place to set up SPPT.
  3. If SPP protected pages are access-tracked or dirty-page-tracked,
     store SPP flag in reserved address bit, restore it in
     fast_page_fault() handler.
  4. Move SPP specific functions to vmx/spp.c and vmx/spp.h
  5. Rebased code to kernel v5.3
  6. Other change suggested by KVM community.
  
V3 -> V4:
  1. Modified documentation to make it consistent with patches.
  2. Allocated SPPT root page in init_spp() instead of vmx_set_cr3() to
     avoid SPPT miss error.
  3. Added back co-developers and sign-offs.

V2 -> V3:                                                                
  1. Rebased patches to kernel 5.1 release                                
  2. Deferred SPPT setup to EPT fault handler if the page is not
     available while set_subpage() is being called.
  3. Added init IOCTL to reduce extra cost if SPP is not used.
  4. Refactored patch structure, cleaned up cross referenced functions.
  5. Added code to deal with memory swapping/migration/shrinker cases.

V2 -> V1:
  1. Rebased to 4.20-rc1
  2. Move VMCS change to a separated patch.
  3. Code refine and Bug fix 


Yang Weijiang (9):
  Documentation: Introduce EPT based Subpage Protection and related
    ioctls
  vmx: spp: Add control flags for Sub-Page Protection(SPP)
  mmu: spp: Add SPP Table setup functions
  mmu: spp: Add functions to create/destroy SPP bitmap block
  x86: spp: Introduce user-space SPP IOCTLs
  vmx: spp: Set up SPP paging table at vmentry/vmexit
  mmu: spp: Enable Lazy mode SPP protection
  mmu: spp: Handle SPP protected pages when VM memory changes
  x86: spp: Add SPP protection check in emulation.

 Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt        |  46 ++
 Documentation/virtual/kvm/spp_kvm.txt | 180 +++++++
 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h    |   1 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h       |  10 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h            |  10 +
 arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/vmx.h       |   2 +
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c           |   4 +
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c                    |  78 ++-
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h                    |   2 +
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/capabilities.h       |   5 +
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/spp.c                | 651 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/spp.h                |  28 ++
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c                | 113 +++++
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                    |  87 ++++
 include/uapi/linux/kvm.h              |  17 +
 15 files changed, 1232 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/virtual/kvm/spp_kvm.txt
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/spp.c
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/spp.h

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