[PATCH 1/4] ARM: KVM: be more thorough when invalidating TLBs
Marc Zyngier
marc.zyngier at arm.com
Tue Apr 30 14:02:16 EDT 2013
On 30/04/13 18:17, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 7:17 AM, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com> wrote:
>> The KVM/ARM MMU code doesn't take care of invalidating TLBs before
>> freeing a {pte,pmd} table. This could cause problems if the page
>> is reallocated and then speculated into by another CPU.
>>
>> Reported-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
>> ---
>> arch/arm/kvm/interrupts.S | 2 ++
>> arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------
>> 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/interrupts.S b/arch/arm/kvm/interrupts.S
>> index f7793df..9e2d906c 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/kvm/interrupts.S
>> +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/interrupts.S
>> @@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ __kvm_hyp_code_start:
>> *
>> * void __kvm_tlb_flush_vmid_ipa(struct kvm *kvm, phys_addr_t ipa);
>> *
>> + * Invalidate TLB for the given IPA, or invalidate all if ipa is zero.
>> + *
>> * We rely on the hardware to broadcast the TLB invalidation to all CPUs
>> * inside the inner-shareable domain (which is the case for all v7
>> * implementations). If we come across a non-IS SMP implementation, we'll
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
>> index 9657065..71f2a57 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
>> @@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ static phys_addr_t hyp_idmap_vector;
>>
>> static void kvm_tlb_flush_vmid_ipa(struct kvm *kvm, phys_addr_t ipa)
>> {
>> - kvm_call_hyp(__kvm_tlb_flush_vmid_ipa, kvm, ipa);
>> + if (kvm)
>> + kvm_call_hyp(__kvm_tlb_flush_vmid_ipa, kvm, ipa);
>
> this feels slightly abusive? could we add a comment that hyp page
> table freeing don't need tlb flushing from these functions and don't
> have a struct kvm?
>
> alternatively it may be more clear to have something like:
>
> if (kvm) /* Check if Hyp or Stage-2 page table */
> kvm_tlb_flush_vmid_ipa(kvm, addr);
>
> in the callers, but, eh, maybe I'm over thinking this.
That code would be repeated three times, which feels a bit overkill.
I'll add a comment to the function so it is crystal clear.
Thanks,
M.
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