Consider a normal (L1) guest running under the main hypervisor (L0),
and then a nested guest (L2) running under the L1 guest which is acting
as a nested hypervisor. L0 has page tables to map the address space for
L1 providing the translation from L1 real address -> L0 real address;
L1
|
| (L1 -> L0)
|
----> L0
There are also page tables in L1 used to map the address space for L2
providing the translation from L2 real address -> L1 read address. Since
the hardware can only walk a single level of page table, we need to
maintain in L0 a "shadow_pgtable" for L2 which provides the translation
from L2 real address -> L0 real address. Which looks like;
L2 L2
| |
| (L2 -> L1) |
| |
----> L1 | (L2 -> L0)
| |
| (L1 -> L0) |
| |
----> L0 --------> L0
When a page fault occurs while running a nested (L2) guest we need to
insert a pte into this "shadow_pgtable" for the L2 -> L0 mapping. To
do this we need to:
1. Walk the pgtable in L1 memory to find the L2 -> L1 mapping, and
provide a page fault to L1 if this mapping doesn't exist.
2. Use our L1 -> L0 pgtable to convert this L1 address to an L0 address,
or try to insert a pte for that mapping if it doesn't exist.
3. Now we have a L2 -> L0 mapping, insert this into our shadow_pgtable
Once this mapping exists we can take rc faults when hardware is unable
to automatically set the reference and change bits in the pte. On these
we need to:
1. Check the rc bits on the L2 -> L1 pte match, and otherwise reflect
the fault down to L1.
2. Set the rc bits in the L1 -> L0 pte which corresponds to the same
host page.
3. Set the rc bits in the L2 -> L0 pte.
As we reuse a large number of functions in book3s_64_mmu_radix.c for
this we also needed to refactor a number of these functions to take
an lpid parameter so that the correct lpid is used for tlb invalidations.
The functionality however has remained the same.
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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