[PATCH v4 00/21] Track shared pages at EL2 in protected mode

From: Quentin Perret
Date: Mon Aug 09 2021 - 11:24:54 EST


Hi all,

This is v4 of the patch series previously posted here:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210729132818.4091769-1-qperret@xxxxxxxxxx/

This series aims to improve how the nVHE hypervisor tracks ownership of
memory pages when running in protected mode ("kvm-arm.mode=protected" on
the kernel command line).

The main issue with the existing ownership tracking code is that it is
completely binary: a page is either owned by an entity (e.g. the host)
or not. However, we'll need something smarter to track shared pages, as
is needed for virtio, or even just host/hypervisor communications.

This series introduces a few changes to the kvm page-table library to
allow annotating shared pages in ignored bits (a.k.a. software bits) of
leaf entries, and makes use of that infrastructure to track all pages
that are shared between the host and the hypervisor. We will obviously
want to apply the same treatment to guest stage-2 page-tables, but that
is not really possible to do until EL2 manages them directly, so I'll
keep that for another series.

The series is based on the 5.14-rc5, and has been tested on
AML-S905X-CC (Le Potato) and using various Qemu configurations.

Changes since v3
- Fixed typos in comments / commit messages;
- Various small cleanups and refactoring;
- Rebased on 5.14-rc5.

Marc Zyngier (1):
KVM: arm64: Introduce helper to retrieve a PTE and its level

Quentin Perret (19):
KVM: arm64: Introduce hyp_assert_lock_held()
KVM: arm64: Provide the host_stage2_try() helper macro
KVM: arm64: Expose page-table helpers
KVM: arm64: Optimize host memory aborts
KVM: arm64: Rename KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_S2_IGNORED
KVM: arm64: Don't overwrite software bits with owner id
KVM: arm64: Tolerate re-creating hyp mappings to set software bits
KVM: arm64: Enable forcing page-level stage-2 mappings
KVM: arm64: Allow populating software bits
KVM: arm64: Add helpers to tag shared pages in SW bits
KVM: arm64: Expose host stage-2 manipulation helpers
KVM: arm64: Expose pkvm_hyp_id
KVM: arm64: Introduce addr_is_memory()
KVM: arm64: Enable retrieving protections attributes of PTEs
KVM: arm64: Mark host bss and rodata section as shared
KVM: arm64: Remove __pkvm_mark_hyp
KVM: arm64: Refactor protected nVHE stage-1 locking
KVM: arm64: Restrict EL2 stage-1 changes in protected mode
KVM: arm64: Make __pkvm_create_mappings static

Will Deacon (1):
KVM: arm64: Add hyp_spin_is_locked() for basic locking assertions at
EL2

arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h | 5 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h | 167 ++++++++----
arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig | 9 +
arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c | 46 ----
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/mem_protect.h | 33 ++-
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/mm.h | 3 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/spinlock.h | 25 ++
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c | 20 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c | 225 +++++++++++++---
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mm.c | 22 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/setup.c | 82 +++++-
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c | 247 +++++++++---------
arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 28 +-
13 files changed, 628 insertions(+), 284 deletions(-)

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