[PATCH v2 05/10] ARM: KVM: force cache clean on page fault when caches are off

Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Wed Jan 29 15:07:33 EST 2014


On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 02:56:37PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> In order for the guest with caches off to observe data written

nit: s/the guest/a guest/
nit: s/caches off/caches disabled/

> contained in a given page, we need to make sure that page is
> committed to memory, and not just hanging in the cache (as
> guest accesses are completely bypassing the cache until it

nit: s/it/the guest/

> decides to enable it).
> 
> For this purpose, hook into the coherent_cache_guest_page
> function and flush the region if the guest SCTLR
> register doesn't show the MMU and caches as being enabled.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h | 7 +++++--
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
> index cbab9ba..fa023e2 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
> @@ -116,9 +116,14 @@ static inline void kvm_set_s2pmd_writable(pmd_t *pmd)
>  
>  struct kvm;
>  
> +#define kvm_flush_dcache_to_poc(a,l)	__cpuc_flush_dcache_area((a), (l))
> +
>  static inline void coherent_cache_guest_page(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, hva_t hva,
>  					     unsigned long size)
>  {
> +	if ((vcpu->arch.cp15[c1_SCTLR] & 0b101) != 0b101)
> +		kvm_flush_dcache_to_poc((void *)hva, size);
> +	

Ah, my favorite inline function again...

>  	/*
>  	 * If we are going to insert an instruction page and the icache is
>  	 * either VIPT or PIPT, there is a potential problem where the host
> @@ -139,8 +144,6 @@ static inline void coherent_cache_guest_page(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, hva_t hva,
>  	}
>  }
>  
> -#define kvm_flush_dcache_to_poc(a,l)	__cpuc_flush_dcache_area((a), (l))
> -
>  void stage2_flush_vm(struct kvm *kvm);
>  
>  #endif	/* !__ASSEMBLY__ */
> -- 
> 1.8.3.4
> 

Besides the nits:

Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>



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