[PATCH 2/2] arm/arm64: KVM: Support KVM_CAP_READONLY_MEM

Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Tue Aug 19 05:01:52 PDT 2014


When userspace loads code and data in a read-only memory regions, KVM
needs to be able to handle this on arm and arm64.  Specifically this is
used when running code directly from a read-only flash device; the
common scenario is a UEFI blob loaded with the -bios option in QEMU.

Note that the MMIO exit on writes to a read-only memory is ABI and can
be used to emulate block-erase style flash devices.

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
---
 arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h   |  1 +
 arch/arm/kvm/arm.c                |  1 +
 arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c                | 15 ++++++++-------
 arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h |  1 +
 4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h b/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
index e6ebdd3..51257fd 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 
 #define __KVM_HAVE_GUEST_DEBUG
 #define __KVM_HAVE_IRQ_LINE
+#define __KVM_HAVE_READONLY_MEM
 
 #define KVM_REG_SIZE(id)						\
 	(1U << (((id) & KVM_REG_SIZE_MASK) >> KVM_REG_SIZE_SHIFT))
diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
index a99e0cd..3ab3e60 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
@@ -188,6 +188,7 @@ int kvm_vm_ioctl_check_extension(struct kvm *kvm, long ext)
 	case KVM_CAP_ONE_REG:
 	case KVM_CAP_ARM_PSCI:
 	case KVM_CAP_ARM_PSCI_0_2:
+	case KVM_CAP_READONLY_MEM:
 		r = 1;
 		break;
 	case KVM_CAP_COALESCED_MMIO:
diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
index 16e7994..dcbe01e 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -747,14 +747,13 @@ static bool transparent_hugepage_adjust(pfn_t *pfnp, phys_addr_t *ipap)
 }
 
 static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
-			  struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot,
+			  struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot, unsigned long hva,
 			  unsigned long fault_status)
 {
 	int ret;
 	bool write_fault, writable, hugetlb = false, force_pte = false;
 	unsigned long mmu_seq;
 	gfn_t gfn = fault_ipa >> PAGE_SHIFT;
-	unsigned long hva = gfn_to_hva(vcpu->kvm, gfn);
 	struct kvm *kvm = vcpu->kvm;
 	struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache *memcache = &vcpu->arch.mmu_page_cache;
 	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
@@ -863,7 +862,8 @@ int kvm_handle_guest_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run)
 	unsigned long fault_status;
 	phys_addr_t fault_ipa;
 	struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot;
-	bool is_iabt;
+	unsigned long hva;
+	bool is_iabt, write_fault, writable;
 	gfn_t gfn;
 	int ret, idx;
 
@@ -884,7 +884,10 @@ int kvm_handle_guest_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run)
 	idx = srcu_read_lock(&vcpu->kvm->srcu);
 
 	gfn = fault_ipa >> PAGE_SHIFT;
-	if (!kvm_is_visible_gfn(vcpu->kvm, gfn)) {
+	memslot = gfn_to_memslot(vcpu->kvm, gfn);
+	hva = gfn_to_hva_memslot_prot(memslot, gfn, &writable);
+	write_fault = kvm_is_write_fault(kvm_vcpu_get_hsr(vcpu));
+	if (kvm_is_error_hva(hva) || (write_fault && !writable)) {
 		if (is_iabt) {
 			/* Prefetch Abort on I/O address */
 			kvm_inject_pabt(vcpu, kvm_vcpu_get_hfar(vcpu));
@@ -910,9 +913,7 @@ int kvm_handle_guest_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run)
 		goto out_unlock;
 	}
 
-	memslot = gfn_to_memslot(vcpu->kvm, gfn);
-
-	ret = user_mem_abort(vcpu, fault_ipa, memslot, fault_status);
+	ret = user_mem_abort(vcpu, fault_ipa, memslot, hva, fault_status);
 	if (ret == 0)
 		ret = 1;
 out_unlock:
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h b/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
index e633ff8..f4ec5a6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 
 #define __KVM_HAVE_GUEST_DEBUG
 #define __KVM_HAVE_IRQ_LINE
+#define __KVM_HAVE_READONLY_MEM
 
 #define KVM_REG_SIZE(id)						\
 	(1U << (((id) & KVM_REG_SIZE_MASK) >> KVM_REG_SIZE_SHIFT))
-- 
2.0.0




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