From: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>
To: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>,
Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@arm.com>,
Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>,
Jintack Lim <jintack@cs.columbia.edu>,
George Cherian <gcherian@marvell.com>,
"Zengtao (B)" <prime.zeng@hisilicon.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Julien Thierry <julien.thierry.kdev@gmail.com>,
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/26] KVM: arm64: Factor out stage 2 page table data from struct kvm
Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 09:45:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <91b6b062-e39d-a672-52e4-40532068a02e@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ea603b3a7a51a597263e7c8152f4c795@kernel.org>
Hi Marc,
On 5/27/20 9:41 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> On 2020-05-12 17:53, Alexandru Elisei wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 5/12/20 12:17 PM, James Morse wrote:
>>> Hi Alex, Marc,
>>>
>>> (just on this last_vcpu_ran thing...)
>>>
>>> On 11/05/2020 17:38, Alexandru Elisei wrote:
>>>> On 4/22/20 1:00 PM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>>>> From: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@arm.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> As we are about to reuse our stage 2 page table manipulation code for
>>>>> shadow stage 2 page tables in the context of nested virtualization, we
>>>>> are going to manage multiple stage 2 page tables for a single VM.
>>>>>
>>>>> This requires some pretty invasive changes to our data structures,
>>>>> which moves the vmid and pgd pointers into a separate structure and
>>>>> change pretty much all of our mmu code to operate on this structure
>>>>> instead.
>>>>>
>>>>> The new structure is called struct kvm_s2_mmu.
>>>>>
>>>>> There is no intended functional change by this patch alone.
>>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
>>>>> b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
>>>>> index 7dd8fefa6aecd..664a5d92ae9b8 100644
>>>>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
>>>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
>>>>> @@ -63,19 +63,32 @@ struct kvm_vmid {
>>>>> u32 vmid;
>>>>> };
>>>>>
>>>>> -struct kvm_arch {
>>>>> +struct kvm_s2_mmu {
>>>>> struct kvm_vmid vmid;
>>>>>
>>>>> - /* stage2 entry level table */
>>>>> - pgd_t *pgd;
>>>>> - phys_addr_t pgd_phys;
>>>>> -
>>>>> - /* VTCR_EL2 value for this VM */
>>>>> - u64 vtcr;
>>>>> + /*
>>>>> + * stage2 entry level table
>>>>> + *
>>>>> + * Two kvm_s2_mmu structures in the same VM can point to the same pgd
>>>>> + * here. This happens when running a non-VHE guest hypervisor which
>>>>> + * uses the canonical stage 2 page table for both vEL2 and for vEL1/0
>>>>> + * with vHCR_EL2.VM == 0.
>>>> It makes more sense to me to say that a non-VHE guest hypervisor will use the
>>>> canonical stage *1* page table when running at EL2
>>> Can KVM say anything about stage1? Its totally under the the guests control
>>> even at vEL2...
>>
>> It just occurred to me that "canonical stage 2 page table" refers to the L0
>> hypervisor stage 2, not to the L1 hypervisor stage 2. If you don't mind my
>> suggestion, perhaps the comment can be slightly improved to avoid any confusion?
>> Maybe something along the lines of "[..] This happens when running a
>> non-VHE guest
>> hypervisor, in which case we use the canonical stage 2 page table for both vEL2
>> and for vEL1/0 with vHCR_EL2.VM == 0".
>
> If the confusion stems from the lack of guest stage-2, how about:
>
> "This happens when running a guest using a translation regime that isn't
> affected by its own stage-2 translation, such as a non-VHE hypervisor
> running at vEL2, or for vEL1/EL0 with vHCR_EL2.VM == 0. In that case,
> we use the canonical stage-2 page tables."
>
> instead? Does this lift the ambiguity?
Yes, that's perfect.
Thanks,
Alex
>
> Thanks,
>
> M.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-27 8:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-22 12:00 [PATCH 00/26] KVM: arm64: Preliminary NV patches Marc Zyngier
2020-04-22 12:00 ` [PATCH 01/26] KVM: arm64: Check advertised Stage-2 page size capability Marc Zyngier
2020-04-22 13:40 ` Suzuki K Poulose
2020-04-22 14:07 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-04-22 14:14 ` Suzuki K Poulose
2020-05-07 11:42 ` Alexandru Elisei
2020-04-22 12:00 ` [PATCH 02/26] KVM: arm64: Move __load_guest_stage2 to kvm_mmu.h Marc Zyngier
2020-04-22 13:51 ` Suzuki K Poulose
2020-04-22 13:59 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-04-22 12:00 ` [PATCH 03/26] KVM: arm64: Factor out stage 2 page table data from struct kvm Marc Zyngier
2020-05-05 15:26 ` Andrew Scull
2020-05-05 16:32 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-05-05 17:23 ` Andrew Scull
2020-05-05 18:10 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-05-05 16:03 ` James Morse
2020-05-05 17:59 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-05-06 9:30 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-05-11 16:38 ` Alexandru Elisei
2020-05-12 11:17 ` James Morse
2020-05-12 15:47 ` Alexandru Elisei
2020-05-12 16:13 ` James Morse
2020-05-12 16:53 ` Alexandru Elisei
2020-05-27 8:41 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-05-27 8:45 ` Alexandru Elisei [this message]
2020-04-22 12:00 ` [PATCH 04/26] arm64: Detect the ARMv8.4 TTL feature Marc Zyngier
2020-04-27 15:55 ` Suzuki K Poulose
2020-04-22 12:00 ` [PATCH 05/26] arm64: Document SW reserved PTE/PMD bits in Stage-2 descriptors Marc Zyngier
2020-05-05 15:59 ` Andrew Scull
2020-05-06 9:39 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-05-06 10:11 ` Andrew Scull
2020-04-22 12:00 ` [PATCH 06/26] arm64: Add level-hinted TLB invalidation helper Marc Zyngier
2020-05-05 17:16 ` Andrew Scull
2020-05-06 8:05 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-04-22 12:00 ` [PATCH 07/26] KVM: arm64: Add a level hint to __kvm_tlb_flush_vmid_ipa Marc Zyngier
2020-05-07 15:08 ` Andrew Scull
2020-05-07 15:13 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-04-22 12:00 ` [PATCH 08/26] KVM: arm64: Use TTL hint in when invalidating stage-2 translations Marc Zyngier
2020-05-07 15:13 ` Andrew Scull
2020-05-12 12:04 ` James Morse
2020-05-13 9:06 ` Andrew Scull
2020-05-27 8:59 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-05-12 17:26 ` James Morse
2020-04-22 12:00 ` [PATCH 09/26] KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Take cpu_if pointer directly instead of vcpu Marc Zyngier
2020-05-07 16:26 ` James Morse
2020-05-08 12:20 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-04-22 12:00 ` [PATCH 10/26] KVM: arm64: Refactor vcpu_{read,write}_sys_reg Marc Zyngier
2020-05-26 16:28 ` James Morse
2020-05-27 10:04 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-04-22 12:00 ` [PATCH 11/26] KVM: arm64: Add missing reset handlers for PMU emulation Marc Zyngier
2020-05-26 16:29 ` James Morse
2020-04-22 12:00 ` [PATCH 12/26] KVM: arm64: Move sysreg reset check to boot time Marc Zyngier
2020-04-22 12:00 ` [PATCH 13/26] KVM: arm64: Introduce accessor for ctxt->sys_reg Marc Zyngier
2020-04-22 12:00 ` [PATCH 14/26] KVM: arm64: hyp: Use ctxt_sys_reg/__vcpu_sys_reg instead of raw sys_regs access Marc Zyngier
2020-04-22 12:00 ` [PATCH 15/26] KVM: arm64: sve: Use __vcpu_sys_reg() " Marc Zyngier
2020-04-22 12:00 ` [PATCH 16/26] KVM: arm64: pauth: Use ctxt_sys_reg() " Marc Zyngier
2020-04-22 12:00 ` [PATCH 17/26] KVM: arm64: debug: " Marc Zyngier
2020-04-22 12:00 ` [PATCH 18/26] KVM: arm64: Don't use empty structures as CPU reset state Marc Zyngier
2020-04-24 4:07 ` Zenghui Yu
2020-04-24 7:45 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-04-28 1:34 ` Zengtao (B)
2020-04-22 12:00 ` [PATCH 19/26] KVM: arm64: Make struct kvm_regs userspace-only Marc Zyngier
2020-05-26 16:29 ` James Morse
2020-05-27 10:22 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-04-22 12:00 ` [PATCH 20/26] KVM: arm64: Move ELR_EL1 to the system register array Marc Zyngier
2020-05-26 16:29 ` James Morse
2020-05-27 10:36 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-04-22 12:00 ` [PATCH 21/26] KVM: arm64: Move SP_EL1 " Marc Zyngier
2020-05-26 16:29 ` James Morse
2020-04-22 12:00 ` [PATCH 22/26] KVM: arm64: Disintegrate SPSR array Marc Zyngier
2020-05-26 16:30 ` James Morse
2020-04-22 12:00 ` [PATCH 23/26] KVM: arm64: Move SPSR_EL1 to the system register array Marc Zyngier
2020-05-26 16:30 ` James Morse
2020-04-22 12:00 ` [PATCH 24/26] KVM: arm64: timers: Rename kvm_timer_sync_hwstate to kvm_timer_sync_user Marc Zyngier
2020-04-22 12:00 ` [PATCH 25/26] KVM: arm64: timers: Move timer registers to the sys_regs file Marc Zyngier
2020-04-22 12:00 ` [PATCH 26/26] KVM: arm64: Parametrize exception entry with a target EL Marc Zyngier
2020-05-19 10:44 ` Mark Rutland
2020-05-27 9:34 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-05-27 14:41 ` Mark Rutland
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