[PATCH] arm/arm64: KVM: Perform local TLB invalidation when multiplexing vcpus on a single CPU

Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Thu Oct 27 02:19:06 PDT 2016


On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 04:31:28PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Architecturally, TLBs are private to the (physical) CPU they're
> associated with. But when multiple vcpus from the same VM are
> being multiplexed on the same CPU, the TLBs are not private
> to the vcpus (and are actually shared across the VMID).
> 
> Let's consider the following scenario:
> 
> - vcpu-0 maps PA to VA
> - vcpu-1 maps PA' to VA
> 
> If run on the same physical CPU, vcpu-1 can hit TLB entries generated
> by vcpu-0 accesses, and access the wrong physical page.
> 
> The solution to this is to keep a per-VM map of which vcpu ran last
> on each given physical CPU, and invalidate local TLBs when switching
> to a different vcpu from the same VM.

Just making sure I understand this:  The reason you cannot rely on the
guest doing the necessary distinction with ASIDs or invalidating the TLB
is that a guest (which assumes it's running on hardware) can validly
defer any neccessary invalidation until it starts running on other
physical CPUs, but we do this transparently in KVM?

Thanks,
-Christoffer

> 
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h   |  5 +++++
>  arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_hyp.h    |  1 +
>  arch/arm/kvm/arm.c                | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  arch/arm/kvm/hyp/switch.c         |  9 +++++++++
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h |  6 +++++-
>  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c       |  8 ++++++++
>  6 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> index 2d19e02..035e744 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> @@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ struct kvm_arch {
>  	/* VTTBR value associated with below pgd and vmid */
>  	u64    vttbr;
>  
> +	int __percpu *last_vcpu_ran;
> +
>  	/* Timer */
>  	struct arch_timer_kvm	timer;
>  
> @@ -174,6 +176,9 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch {
>  	/* vcpu power-off state */
>  	bool power_off;
>  
> +	/* TLBI required */
> +	bool requires_tlbi;
> +
>  	 /* Don't run the guest (internal implementation need) */
>  	bool pause;
>  
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_hyp.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_hyp.h
> index 343135e..5850890 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_hyp.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_hyp.h
> @@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
>  #define ICIALLUIS	__ACCESS_CP15(c7, 0, c1, 0)
>  #define ATS1CPR		__ACCESS_CP15(c7, 0, c8, 0)
>  #define TLBIALLIS	__ACCESS_CP15(c8, 0, c3, 0)
> +#define TLBIALL		__ACCESS_CP15(c8, 0, c7, 0)
>  #define TLBIALLNSNHIS	__ACCESS_CP15(c8, 4, c3, 4)
>  #define PRRR		__ACCESS_CP15(c10, 0, c2, 0)
>  #define NMRR		__ACCESS_CP15(c10, 0, c2, 1)
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
> index 03e9273..09942f0 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
> @@ -114,11 +114,18 @@ void kvm_arch_check_processor_compat(void *rtn)
>   */
>  int kvm_arch_init_vm(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long type)
>  {
> -	int ret = 0;
> +	int ret, cpu;
>  
>  	if (type)
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
> +	kvm->arch.last_vcpu_ran = alloc_percpu(typeof(*kvm->arch.last_vcpu_ran));
> +	if (!kvm->arch.last_vcpu_ran)
> +		return -ENOMEM;
> +
> +	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
> +		*per_cpu_ptr(kvm->arch.last_vcpu_ran, cpu) = -1;
> +
>  	ret = kvm_alloc_stage2_pgd(kvm);
>  	if (ret)
>  		goto out_fail_alloc;
> @@ -141,6 +148,8 @@ int kvm_arch_init_vm(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long type)
>  out_free_stage2_pgd:
>  	kvm_free_stage2_pgd(kvm);
>  out_fail_alloc:
> +	free_percpu(kvm->arch.last_vcpu_ran);
> +	kvm->arch.last_vcpu_ran = NULL;
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> @@ -168,6 +177,9 @@ void kvm_arch_destroy_vm(struct kvm *kvm)
>  {
>  	int i;
>  
> +	free_percpu(kvm->arch.last_vcpu_ran);
> +	kvm->arch.last_vcpu_ran = NULL;
> +
>  	for (i = 0; i < KVM_MAX_VCPUS; ++i) {
>  		if (kvm->vcpus[i]) {
>  			kvm_arch_vcpu_free(kvm->vcpus[i]);
> @@ -310,6 +322,27 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_init(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +void kvm_arch_sched_in(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu)
> +{
> +	int *last_ran;
> +
> +	last_ran = per_cpu_ptr(vcpu->kvm->arch.last_vcpu_ran, cpu);
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * If we're very unlucky and get preempted before having ran
> +	 * this vcpu for real, we'll end-up in a situation where any
> +	 * vcpu that gets scheduled will perform an invalidation (this
> +	 * vcpu explicitely requires it, and all the others will have
> +	 * a different vcpu_id).
> +	 */
> +	if (*last_ran != vcpu->vcpu_id) {
> +		if (*last_ran != -1)
> +			vcpu->arch.requires_tlbi = true;
> +
> +		*last_ran = vcpu->vcpu_id;
> +	}
> +}
> +
>  void kvm_arch_vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu)
>  {
>  	vcpu->cpu = cpu;
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/hyp/switch.c b/arch/arm/kvm/hyp/switch.c
> index 92678b7..ab8ee3b 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kvm/hyp/switch.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/hyp/switch.c
> @@ -75,6 +75,15 @@ static void __hyp_text __activate_vm(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  {
>  	struct kvm *kvm = kern_hyp_va(vcpu->kvm);
>  	write_sysreg(kvm->arch.vttbr, VTTBR);
> +	if (vcpu->arch.requires_tlbi) {
> +		/* Force vttbr to be written */
> +		isb();
> +		/* Local invalidate only for this VMID */
> +		write_sysreg(0, TLBIALL);
> +		dsb(nsh);
> +		vcpu->arch.requires_tlbi = false;
> +	}
> +
>  	write_sysreg(vcpu->arch.midr, VPIDR);
>  }
>  
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> index bd94e67..5b42010 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> @@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ struct kvm_arch {
>  	/* VTTBR value associated with above pgd and vmid */
>  	u64    vttbr;
>  
> +	int __percpu *last_vcpu_ran;
> +
>  	/* The maximum number of vCPUs depends on the used GIC model */
>  	int max_vcpus;
>  
> @@ -252,6 +254,9 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch {
>  	/* vcpu power-off state */
>  	bool power_off;
>  
> +	/* TLBI required */
> +	bool requires_tlbi;
> +
>  	/* Don't run the guest (internal implementation need) */
>  	bool pause;
>  
> @@ -368,7 +373,6 @@ static inline void __cpu_reset_hyp_mode(unsigned long vector_ptr,
>  static inline void kvm_arch_hardware_unsetup(void) {}
>  static inline void kvm_arch_sync_events(struct kvm *kvm) {}
>  static inline void kvm_arch_vcpu_uninit(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) {}
> -static inline void kvm_arch_sched_in(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu) {}
>  static inline void kvm_arch_vcpu_block_finish(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) {}
>  
>  void kvm_arm_init_debug(void);
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c
> index 83037cd..8d9c3eb 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c
> @@ -131,6 +131,14 @@ static void __hyp_text __activate_vm(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  {
>  	struct kvm *kvm = kern_hyp_va(vcpu->kvm);
>  	write_sysreg(kvm->arch.vttbr, vttbr_el2);
> +	if (vcpu->arch.requires_tlbi) {
> +		/* Force vttbr_el2 to be written */
> +		isb();
> +		/* Local invalidate only for this VMID */
> +		asm volatile("tlbi vmalle1" : : );
> +		dsb(nsh);
> +		vcpu->arch.requires_tlbi = false;
> +	}
>  }
>  
>  static void __hyp_text __deactivate_vm(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> -- 
> 2.1.4
> 



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