(1) During running time of a a VM with numbers of vCPUs, if some vCPUs
access the same GPA almost at the same time and the stage-2 mapping of
the GPA has not been built yet, as a result they will all cause
translation faults. The first vCPU builds the mapping, and the followed
ones end up updating the valid leaf PTE. Note that these vCPUs might
want different access permissions (RO, RW, RX, RWX, etc.).
(2) It's inevitable that we sometimes will update an existing valid leaf
PTE in the map path, and we perform break-before-make in this case.
Then more unnecessary translation faults could be caused if the
*break stage* of BBM is just catched by other vCPUS.
With (1) and (2), something unsatisfactory could happen: vCPU A causes
a translation fault and builds the mapping with RW permissions, vCPU B
then update the valid leaf PTE with break-before-make and permissions
are updated back to RO. Besides, *break stage* of BBM may trigger more
translation faults. Finally, some useless small loops could occur.
We can make some optimization to solve above problems: When we need to
update a valid leaf PTE in the map path, let's filter out the case where
this update only change access permissions, and don't update the valid
leaf PTE here in this case. Instead, let the vCPU enter back the guest
and it will exit next time to go through the relax_perms path without
break-before-make if it still wants more permissions.
Signed-off-by: Yanan Wang <wangyanan55@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210114121350.123684-3-wangyanan55@huawei.com
Add support for relaxing the permissions of a stage-2 mapping (i.e.
adding additional permissions) to the generic page-table code.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200911132529.19844-17-will@kernel.org
Add support for cache flushing a range of the stage-2 address space to
the generic page-table code.
Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200911132529.19844-15-will@kernel.org
Introduce alloc() and free() functions to the generic page-table code
for guest stage-2 page-tables and plumb these into the existing KVM
page-table allocator. Subsequent patches will convert other operations
within the KVM allocator over to the generic code.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200911132529.19844-6-will@kernel.org
Now that we have a shiny new page-table allocator, replace the hyp
page-table code with calls into the new API. This also allows us to
remove the extended idmap code, as we can now simply ensure that the
VA size is large enough to map everything we need.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200911132529.19844-5-will@kernel.org
The generic page-table walker is pretty useless as it stands, because it
doesn't understand enough to allocate anything. Teach it about stage-1
page-tables, and hook up an API for allocating these for the hypervisor
at EL2.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200911132529.19844-4-will@kernel.org
The KVM page-table code is intricately tied into the kernel page-table
code and re-uses the pte/pmd/pud/p4d/pgd macros directly in an attempt
to reduce code duplication. Unfortunately, the reality is that there is
an awful lot of code required to make this work, and at the end of the
day you're limited to creating page-tables with the same configuration
as the host kernel. Furthermore, lifting the page-table code to run
directly at EL2 on a non-VHE system (as we plan to to do in future
patches) is practically impossible due to the number of dependencies it
has on the core kernel.
Introduce a framework for walking Armv8 page-tables configured
independently from the host kernel.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200911132529.19844-3-will@kernel.org
