[PATCH v3 1/3] arm64: KVM: Implement 48 VA support for KVM EL2 and Stage-2

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri Oct 10 08:09:10 PDT 2014


On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:14:28AM +0100, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> This patch adds the necessary support for all host kernel PGSIZE and
> VA_SPACE configuration options for both EL2 and the Stage-2 page tables.
> 
> However, for 40bit and 42bit PARange systems, the architecture mandates
> that VTCR_EL2.SL0 is maximum 1, resulting in fewer levels of stage-2
> pagge tables than levels of host kernel page tables.  At the same time,
> systems with a PARange > 42bit, we limit the IPA range by always setting
> VTCR_EL2.T0SZ to 24.
> 
> To solve the situation with different levels of page tables for Stage-2
> translation than the host kernel page tables, we allocate a dummy PGD
> with pointers to our actual inital level Stage-2 page table, in order
> for us to reuse the kernel pgtable manipulation primitives.  Reproducing
> all these in KVM does not look pretty and unnecessarily complicates the
> 32-bit side.
> 
> Systems with a PARange < 40bits are not yet supported.
> 
>  [ I have reworked this patch from its original form submitted by
>    Jungseok to take the architecture constraints into consideration.
>    There were too many changes from the original patch for me to
>    preserve the authorship.  Thanks to Catalin Marinas for his help in
>    figuring out a good solution to this challenge.  I have also fixed
>    various bugs and missing error code handling from the original
>    patch. - Christoffer ]
> 
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jungseok Lee <jungseoklee85 at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>



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