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@ 2021-07-26  9:28 Quentin Perret
  2021-07-26  9:28 ` [PATCH v2 01/16] KVM: arm64: Introduce helper to retrieve a PTE and its level Quentin Perret
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  0 siblings, 16 replies; 23+ messages in thread
From: Quentin Perret @ 2021-07-26  9:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: maz, james.morse, alexandru.elisei, suzuki.poulose,
	catalin.marinas, will
  Cc: linux-arm-kernel, kvmarm, linux-kernel, ardb, qwandor, tabba,
	dbrazdil, kernel-team, Quentin Perret

Hi all,

This is v2 of the patch series first posted here:

https://lore.kernel.org/kvmarm/20210719104735.3681732-1-qperret@google.com/

This series aims to improve how the nVHE hypervisor tracks ownership of
memory pages when running in protected mode ("kvm-arm.mode=protected" on
the kernel command line).

The main issue with the existing ownership tracking code is that it is
completely binary: a page is either owned by an entity (e.g. the host)
or not. However, we'll need something smarter to track shared pages, as
is needed for virtio, or even just host/hypervisor communications.

This series introduces a few changes to the kvm page-table library to
allow annotating shared pages in ignored bits (a.k.a. software bits) of
leaf entries, and makes use of that infrastructure to track all pages
that are shared between the host and the hypervisor. We will obviously
want to apply the same treatment to guest stage-2 page-tables, but that
is not really possible to do until EL2 manages them directly, so I'll
keep that for another series.

The series is based on the latest kvmarm/fixes branch, and has been
tested on AML-S905X-CC (Le Potato) and using various Qemu configurations.

Changes since v1:
 - Changed the 'share' hypercall to accept a single page at a time;
 - Dropped the patch allowing to continue stage-2 map when hitting the
   EAGAIN case;
 - Dropped some of the custom pgtable walkers and used Marc's get_leaf()
   patch instead;
 - Changed pgtable API to manipulate SW bits directly rather than
   specifying shared pages;
 - Added comments and documentations all over;
 - Cleanups and small refactoring.

Thanks,
Quentin

Marc Zyngier (1):
  KVM: arm64: Introduce helper to retrieve a PTE and its level

Quentin Perret (15):
  KVM: arm64: Provide the host_stage2_try() helper macro
  KVM: arm64: Expose page-table helpers
  KVM: arm64: Optimize host memory aborts
  KVM: arm64: Rename KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_S2_IGNORED
  KVM: arm64: Don't overwrite software bits with owner id
  KVM: arm64: Tolerate re-creating hyp mappings to set software bits
  KVM: arm64: Enable forcing page-level stage-2 mappings
  KVM: arm64: Allow populating software bits
  KVM: arm64: Add helpers to tag shared pages in SW bits
  KVM: arm64: Introduce and export host_stage2_idmap_locked()
  KVM: arm64: Mark host bss and rodata section as shared
  KVM: arm64: Enable retrieving protections attributes of PTEs
  KVM: arm64: Refactor protected nVHE stage-1 locking
  KVM: arm64: Restrict EL2 stage-1 changes in protected mode
  KVM: arm64: Make __pkvm_create_mappings static

 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h              |   2 +-
 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h          | 153 ++++++++----
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/mem_protect.h |  29 +++
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/mm.h          |   3 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c            |  11 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c         | 188 ++++++++++++--
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mm.c                  |  21 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/setup.c               |  52 +++-
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c                  | 234 ++++++++++--------
 arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c                          |  28 ++-
 10 files changed, 525 insertions(+), 196 deletions(-)

-- 
2.32.0.432.gabb21c7263-goog


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2021-07-26  9:28 ` [PATCH v2 02/16] KVM: arm64: Provide the host_stage2_try() helper macro Quentin Perret
2021-07-26  9:28 ` [PATCH v2 03/16] KVM: arm64: Expose page-table helpers Quentin Perret
2021-07-26  9:28 ` [PATCH v2 04/16] KVM: arm64: Optimize host memory aborts Quentin Perret
2021-07-26 10:35   ` Marc Zyngier
2021-07-26 13:13     ` Quentin Perret
2021-07-26 13:24       ` Marc Zyngier
2021-07-26  9:28 ` [PATCH v2 05/16] KVM: arm64: Rename KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_S2_IGNORED Quentin Perret
2021-07-26  9:28 ` [PATCH v2 06/16] KVM: arm64: Don't overwrite software bits with owner id Quentin Perret
2021-07-26  9:28 ` [PATCH v2 07/16] KVM: arm64: Tolerate re-creating hyp mappings to set software bits Quentin Perret
2021-07-26  9:28 ` [PATCH v2 08/16] KVM: arm64: Enable forcing page-level stage-2 mappings Quentin Perret
2021-07-26  9:28 ` [PATCH v2 09/16] KVM: arm64: Allow populating software bits Quentin Perret
2021-07-26  9:28 ` [PATCH v2 10/16] KVM: arm64: Add helpers to tag shared pages in SW bits Quentin Perret
2021-07-26  9:29 ` [PATCH v2 11/16] KVM: arm64: Introduce and export host_stage2_idmap_locked() Quentin Perret
2021-07-26  9:29 ` [PATCH v2 12/16] KVM: arm64: Mark host bss and rodata section as shared Quentin Perret
2021-07-28 12:14   ` Quentin Perret
2021-07-26  9:29 ` [PATCH v2 13/16] KVM: arm64: Enable retrieving protections attributes of PTEs Quentin Perret
2021-07-26  9:29 ` [PATCH v2 14/16] KVM: arm64: Refactor protected nVHE stage-1 locking Quentin Perret
2021-07-26  9:29 ` [PATCH v2 15/16] KVM: arm64: Restrict EL2 stage-1 changes in protected mode Quentin Perret
2021-07-26 11:27   ` Marc Zyngier
2021-07-26 12:55     ` Quentin Perret
2021-07-26  9:29 ` [PATCH v2 16/16] KVM: arm64: Make __pkvm_create_mappings static Quentin Perret

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