From: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
To: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com>,
Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@arm.com>,
Kristina Martsenko <kristina.martsenko@arm.com>,
kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu,
Ramana Radhakrishnan <ramana.radhakrishnan@arm.com>,
Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/6] arm64/kvm: preserve host HCR_EL2 value
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 10:06:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <65651349-e505-bc58-85b0-e6d2b2a2a533@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ba023672-92f5-41dd-1194-4ab4f647b204@arm.com>
Hi Amit,
On 25/02/2019 17:39, James Morse wrote:
> On 19/02/2019 09:24, Amit Daniel Kachhap wrote:
>> From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
>> When restoring HCR_EL2 for the host, KVM uses HCR_HOST_VHE_FLAGS, which
>> is a constant value. This works today, as the host HCR_EL2 value is
>> always the same, but this will get in the way of supporting extensions
>> that require HCR_EL2 bits to be set conditionally for the host.
>>
>> To allow such features to work without KVM having to explicitly handle
>> every possible host feature combination, this patch has KVM save/restore
>> for the host HCR when switching to/from a guest HCR. The saving of the
>> register is done once during cpu hypervisor initialization state and is
>> just restored after switch from guest.
>>
>> For fetching HCR_EL2 during kvm initialisation, a hyp call is made using
>> kvm_call_hyp and is helpful in NHVE case.
>>
>> For the hyp TLB maintenance code, __tlb_switch_to_host_vhe() is updated
>> to toggle the TGE bit with a RMW sequence, as we already do in
>> __tlb_switch_to_guest_vhe().
>>
>> The value of hcr_el2 is now stored in struct kvm_cpu_context as both host
>> and guest can now use this field in a common way.
>> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c b/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c
>> index 9e350fd3..8e18f7f 100644
>> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c
>> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c
>> @@ -1328,6 +1328,7 @@ static void cpu_hyp_reinit(void)
>> cpu_init_hyp_mode(NULL);
>>
>> kvm_arm_init_debug();
>> + __cpu_copy_hyp_conf();
>
> Your commit message says:
> | The saving of the register is done once during cpu hypervisor initialization state
>
> But cpu_hyp_reinit() is called each time secondary CPUs come online. Its also called as
> part of the cpu-idle mechanism via hyp_init_cpu_pm_notifier(). cpu-idle can ask the
> firmware to power-off the CPU until an interrupt becomes pending for it. KVM's EL2 state
> disappears when this happens, these calls take care of setting it back up again. On Juno,
> this can happen tens of times a second, and this adds an extra call to EL2.
The bit I missed was the MDCR_EL2 copy is behind kvm_arm_init_debug(), so we already have
an unnecessary EL2 call here, so its nothing new.
Assuming the deactivate_traps_vhe_put() vcpu isn't needed, and with Mark's comments addressed:
Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
If we can avoid repeated calls to EL2 once we've got HCR_EL2+MDCR_EL2, even better!
Thanks,
James
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-26 10:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-19 9:24 [PATCH v6 0/6] Add ARMv8.3 pointer authentication for kvm guest Amit Daniel Kachhap
2019-02-19 9:24 ` [PATCH v6 1/6] arm64/kvm: preserve host HCR_EL2 value Amit Daniel Kachhap
2019-02-21 11:50 ` Mark Rutland
2019-02-25 18:09 ` Marc Zyngier
2019-02-28 6:43 ` Amit Daniel Kachhap
2019-02-21 15:49 ` Dave Martin
2019-03-01 5:56 ` Amit Daniel Kachhap
2019-02-25 17:39 ` James Morse
2019-02-26 10:06 ` James Morse [this message]
2019-03-02 11:09 ` Amit Daniel Kachhap
2019-02-19 9:24 ` [PATCH v6 2/6] arm64/kvm: preserve host MDCR_EL2 value Amit Daniel Kachhap
2019-02-21 11:57 ` Mark Rutland
2019-02-21 15:51 ` Dave Martin
2019-03-01 6:10 ` Amit Daniel Kachhap
2019-02-19 9:24 ` [PATCH v6 3/6] arm64/kvm: context-switch ptrauth registers Amit Daniel Kachhap
2019-02-21 12:29 ` Mark Rutland
2019-02-21 15:51 ` Dave Martin
2019-03-01 6:17 ` Amit Daniel Kachhap
2019-02-28 9:07 ` Amit Daniel Kachhap
2019-02-21 15:53 ` Dave Martin
2019-03-01 9:35 ` Amit Daniel Kachhap
2019-02-26 18:31 ` James Morse
2019-03-04 10:51 ` Amit Daniel Kachhap
2019-02-19 9:24 ` [PATCH v6 4/6] arm64/kvm: add a userspace option to enable pointer authentication Amit Daniel Kachhap
2019-02-21 12:34 ` Mark Rutland
2019-02-28 9:25 ` Amit Daniel Kachhap
2019-02-21 15:53 ` Dave Martin
2019-03-01 9:41 ` Amit Daniel Kachhap
2019-03-01 12:22 ` Dave P Martin
2019-02-26 18:33 ` James Morse
2019-03-04 10:56 ` Amit Daniel Kachhap
2019-02-19 9:24 ` [PATCH v6 5/6] arm64/kvm: control accessibility of ptrauth key registers Amit Daniel Kachhap
2019-02-21 15:53 ` Dave Martin
2019-02-26 18:34 ` James Morse
2019-02-19 9:24 ` [kvmtool PATCH v6 6/6] arm/kvm: arm64: Add a vcpu feature for pointer authentication Amit Daniel Kachhap
2019-02-21 15:54 ` Dave Martin
2019-03-01 10:37 ` Amit Daniel Kachhap
2019-03-01 11:24 ` Dave P Martin
2019-03-04 11:08 ` Amit Daniel Kachhap
2019-03-05 11:11 ` Dave Martin
2019-02-26 18:03 ` [PATCH v6 0/6] Add ARMv8.3 pointer authentication for kvm guest James Morse
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