[PATCH] ARM/arm64: KVM: correct PTE uncachedness check

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Thu Dec 3 00:21:41 PST 2015


PLEASE disregard, this patch is wrong. v2 coming up


On 3 December 2015 at 09:20, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org> wrote:
> Commit e6fab5442345 ("ARM/arm64: KVM: test properly for a PTE's
> uncachedness") modified the logic to test whether a HYP or stage-2
> mapping needs flushing, from [incorrectly] interpreting the page table
> attributes to [incorrectly] checking whether the PFN that backs the
> mapping is covered by host system RAM. The PFN number is part of the
> output of the translation, not the input, so we have to use pte_pfn()
> on the contents of the PTE, not __phys_to_pfn() on the HYP virtual
> address or stage-2 intermediate physical address.
>
> Fixes: e6fab5442345 ("ARM/arm64: KVM: test properly for a PTE's uncachedness")
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> index 7dace909d5cf..9708c342795f 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ static void unmap_ptes(struct kvm *kvm, pmd_t *pmd,
>                         kvm_tlb_flush_vmid_ipa(kvm, addr);
>
>                         /* No need to invalidate the cache for device mappings */
> -                       if (!kvm_is_device_pfn(__phys_to_pfn(addr)))
> +                       if (!kvm_is_device_pfn(pte_pfn(addr)))
>                                 kvm_flush_dcache_pte(old_pte);
>
>                         put_page(virt_to_page(pte));
> @@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ static void stage2_flush_ptes(struct kvm *kvm, pmd_t *pmd,
>
>         pte = pte_offset_kernel(pmd, addr);
>         do {
> -               if (!pte_none(*pte) && !kvm_is_device_pfn(__phys_to_pfn(addr)))
> +               if (!pte_none(*pte) && !kvm_is_device_pfn(pte_pfn(addr)))
>                         kvm_flush_dcache_pte(*pte);
>         } while (pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end);
>  }
> --
> 1.9.1
>



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