[PATCH v5 0/4] arm64: ptdump: View the second stage page-tables

From: Sebastian Ene
Date: Wed Feb 07 2024 - 09:49:26 EST


Hi,

This is the first part of the series which enables dumping of the guest
stage-2 pagetables. The support for dumping the host stage-2 pagetables
which is pKVM specific will be part of a follow-up series as per the
feedback received in v4.

When CONFIG_PTDUMP_STAGE2_DEBUGFS is enabled, ptdump registers
'/sys/debug/kvm/<guest_id>/stage2_page_tables' entry with debugfs
upon guest creation. This allows userspace tools (eg. cat) to dump the
stage-2 pagetables by reading the registered file.

Reading the debugfs file shows stage-2 memory ranges in following format:
<IPA range> <size> <descriptor type> <access permissions> <mem_attributes>

Below is the output of a guest stage-2 pagetable mappings running under
Qemu:

---[ IPA bits 33 start lvl 2 ]---
0x0000000000000000-0x0000000080000000 2G PGD
0x0000000080000000-0x0000000080c00000 12M PGD R W AF BLK
0x0000000080c00000-0x0000000080e00000 2M PGD XN R W AF BLK
0x0000000080e00000-0x0000000081000000 2M PGD R W AF BLK
0x0000000081000000-0x0000000081400000 4M PGD XN R W AF BLK
0x0000000081400000-0x000000008fe00000 234M PGD
0x000000008fe00000-0x0000000090000000 2M PGD XN R W AF BLK
0x0000000090000000-0x00000000fa000000 1696M PGD
0x00000000fa000000-0x00000000fe000000 64M PGD XN R W AF BLK
0x00000000fe000000-0x0000000100000000 32M PGD
0x0000000100000000-0x0000000101c00000 28M PGD XN R W AF BLK
0x0000000101c00000-0x0000000102000000 4M PGD
0x0000000102000000-0x0000000102200000 2M PGD XN R W AF BLK
0x0000000102200000-0x000000017b000000 1934M PGD
0x000000017b000000-0x0000000180000000 80M PGD XN R W AF BLK

Link to v4:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231218135859.2513568-2-sebastianene@xxxxxxxxxx/

Link to v3:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231115171639.2852644-2-sebastianene@xxxxxxxxxx/

Changelog:
v4 -> current_version:
* refactorization: split the series into two parts as per the feedback
received from Oliver. Introduce the base support which allows dumping
of the guest stage-2 pagetables.

* removed the *ops* struct wrapper built on top of the file_ops and
simplify the ptdump interface access.

* keep the page table walker away from the ptdump specific code

v3 -> current_version:
* refactorization: moved all the **KVM** specific components under
kvm/ as suggested by Oliver. Introduced a new file
arm64/kvm/ptdump.c which handled the second stage translation.
re-used only the display portion from mm/ptdump.c

* pagetable snapshot creation now uses memory donated from the host.
The memory is no longer shared with the host as this can pose a security
risk if the host has access to manipulate the pagetable copy while
the hypervisor iterates it.

* fixed a memory leak: while memory was used from the memcache for
building the snapshot pagetable, it was no longer giving back the
pages to the host for freeing. A separate array was introduced to
keep track of the pages allocated from the memcache.

v2 -> v3:
* register the stage-2 debugfs entry for the host under
/sys/debug/kvm/host_stage2_page_tables and in
/sys/debug/kvm/<guest_id>/stage2_page_tables for guests.

* don't use a static array for parsing the attributes description,
generate it dynamically based on the number of pagetable levels

* remove the lock that was guarding the seq_file private inode data,
and keep the data private to the open file session.

* minor fixes & renaming of CONFIG_NVHE_EL2_PTDUMP_DEBUGFS to
CONFIG_PTDUMP_STAGE2_DEBUGFS

v1 -> v2:
* use the stage-2 pagetable walker for dumping descriptors instead of
the one provided by ptdump.

* support for guests pagetables dumping under VHE/nVHE non-protected

Thanks,

Sebastian Ene (4):
arm64: ptdump: Expose the attribute parsing functionality
arm64: ptdump: Use the mask from the state structure
KVM: arm64: Register ptdump with debugfs on guest creation
KVM: arm64: Initialize the ptdump parser with stage-2 attributes

arch/arm64/include/asm/ptdump.h | 42 +++++-
arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig | 13 ++
arch/arm64/kvm/Makefile | 1 +
arch/arm64/kvm/debug.c | 7 +
arch/arm64/kvm/kvm_ptdump.h | 20 +++
arch/arm64/kvm/ptdump.c | 235 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/arm64/mm/ptdump.c | 49 ++-----
7 files changed, 327 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/arm64/kvm/kvm_ptdump.h
create mode 100644 arch/arm64/kvm/ptdump.c

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