Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/26] KVM/arm64: A stage 2 for the host

[Quentin Perret]

Hi Mate,

On Wednesday 17 Feb 2021 at 17:27:07 (+0100), Mate Toth-Pal wrote:
> We tested the pKVM changes pulled from here:
> 
> 
> >      https://android-kvm.googlesource.com/linux qperret/host-stage2-v2
> 
> 
> We were using a target with Arm architecture with FEAT_S2FWB, and found that
> there is a bug in the patch.
> 
> 
> It turned out that the Kernel checks for the extension, and sets up the
> stage 2 translation so that it forces the host memory type to write-through.
> However it seems that the code doesn't turn on the feature in the HCR_EL2
> register.
> 
> 
> We were able to fix the issue by applying the following patch:
> 
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c
> b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c
> index 0cd3eb178f3b..e8521a072ea6 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c
> @@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ int kvm_host_prepare_stage2(void *mem_pgt_pool, void
> *dev_pgt_pool)
>                 params->vttbr = kvm_get_vttbr(mmu);
>                 params->vtcr = host_kvm.arch.vtcr;
>                 params->hcr_el2 |= HCR_VM;
> +               if (cpus_have_const_cap(ARM64_HAS_STAGE2_FWB))
> +                       params->hcr_el2 |= HCR_FWB;
>                 __flush_dcache_area(params, sizeof(*params));
>         }

Aha, indeed, this looks right. I'll double check HCR_EL2 to see if I'm
missing any other, and I'll add this to v3.

Thanks for testing, and the for the report.
Quentin