[PATCH 11/37] KVM: arm64: Improve debug register save/restore flow

Christoffer Dall cdall at linaro.org
Fri Dec 1 09:52:03 PST 2017


On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 03:48:57PM +0100, Andrew Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 12:41:15PM +0200, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> > Instead of having multiple calls from the world switch path to the debug
> > logic, each figuring out if the dirty bit is set and if we should
> > save/restore the debug registes, let's just provide two hooks to the
> > debug save/restore functionality, one for switching to the guest
> > context, and one for switching to the host context, and we get the
> > benefit of only having to evaluate the dirty flag once on each path,
> > plus we give the compiler some more room to inline some of this
> > functionality.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_hyp.h | 10 ++-----
> >  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/debug-sr.c    | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> >  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c      |  6 ++---
> >  3 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_hyp.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_hyp.h
> > index 08d3bb6..a0e5a70 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_hyp.h
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_hyp.h
> > @@ -139,14 +139,8 @@ void __sysreg_restore_guest_state(struct kvm_cpu_context *ctxt);
> >  void __sysreg32_save_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
> >  void __sysreg32_restore_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
> >  
> > -void __debug_save_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> > -			struct kvm_guest_debug_arch *dbg,
> > -			struct kvm_cpu_context *ctxt);
> > -void __debug_restore_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> > -			   struct kvm_guest_debug_arch *dbg,
> > -			   struct kvm_cpu_context *ctxt);
> > -void __debug_cond_save_host_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
> > -void __debug_cond_restore_host_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
> > +void __debug_switch_to_guest(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
> > +void __debug_switch_to_host(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
> >  
> >  void __fpsimd_save_state(struct user_fpsimd_state *fp_regs);
> >  void __fpsimd_restore_state(struct user_fpsimd_state *fp_regs);
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/debug-sr.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/debug-sr.c
> > index a2291b6..b4cd8e0 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/debug-sr.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/debug-sr.c
> > @@ -116,16 +116,13 @@ static void __hyp_text __debug_restore_spe(u64 pmscr_el1)
> >  	write_sysreg_s(pmscr_el1, PMSCR_EL1);
> >  }
> >  
> > -void __hyp_text __debug_save_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> > -				   struct kvm_guest_debug_arch *dbg,
> > -				   struct kvm_cpu_context *ctxt)
> > +static void __hyp_text __debug_save_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> > +					  struct kvm_guest_debug_arch *dbg,
> > +					  struct kvm_cpu_context *ctxt)
> >  {
> >  	u64 aa64dfr0;
> >  	int brps, wrps;
> >  
> > -	if (!(vcpu->arch.debug_flags & KVM_ARM64_DEBUG_DIRTY))
> > -		return;
> > -
> >  	aa64dfr0 = read_sysreg(id_aa64dfr0_el1);
> >  	brps = (aa64dfr0 >> 12) & 0xf;
> >  	wrps = (aa64dfr0 >> 20) & 0xf;
> > @@ -138,16 +135,13 @@ void __hyp_text __debug_save_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> >  	ctxt->sys_regs[MDCCINT_EL1] = read_sysreg(mdccint_el1);
> >  }
> >  
> > -void __hyp_text __debug_restore_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> > -				      struct kvm_guest_debug_arch *dbg,
> > -				      struct kvm_cpu_context *ctxt)
> > +static void __hyp_text __debug_restore_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> > +					     struct kvm_guest_debug_arch *dbg,
> > +					     struct kvm_cpu_context *ctxt)
> >  {
> >  	u64 aa64dfr0;
> >  	int brps, wrps;
> >  
> > -	if (!(vcpu->arch.debug_flags & KVM_ARM64_DEBUG_DIRTY))
> > -		return;
> > -
> >  	aa64dfr0 = read_sysreg(id_aa64dfr0_el1);
> >  
> >  	brps = (aa64dfr0 >> 12) & 0xf;
> > @@ -161,24 +155,50 @@ void __hyp_text __debug_restore_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> >  	write_sysreg(ctxt->sys_regs[MDCCINT_EL1], mdccint_el1);
> >  }
> >  
> > -void __hyp_text __debug_cond_save_host_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> > +void __hyp_text __debug_switch_to_guest(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> >  {
> > -	__debug_save_state(vcpu, &vcpu->arch.host_debug_state.regs,
> > -			   kern_hyp_va(vcpu->arch.host_cpu_context));
> > +	struct kvm_cpu_context *__host_ctxt;
> > +	struct kvm_cpu_context *__guest_ctxt;
> > +	struct kvm_guest_debug_arch *__host_dbg;
> > +	struct kvm_guest_debug_arch *__guest_dbg;
> 
> I caught in your reply to Marc that the __ prefix here is for hyp mode
> accessible code and data, but do we also need to use it for stack data?
> No big deal, but it's not very pretty.
> 

sure.

> >  
> >  	/* Non-VHE: Disable and flush SPE data generation
> >  	 * VHE: The vcpu can run. but it can't hide. */
> >  	if (!has_vhe())
> >  		__debug_save_spe_nvhe(&vcpu->arch.host_debug_state.pmscr_el1);
> > +
> > +	if (!(vcpu->arch.debug_flags & KVM_ARM64_DEBUG_DIRTY))
> > +		return;
> > +
> > +	__host_ctxt = kern_hyp_va(vcpu->arch.host_cpu_context);
> > +	__guest_ctxt = &vcpu->arch.ctxt;
> > +	__host_dbg = &vcpu->arch.host_debug_state.regs;
> > +	__guest_dbg = kern_hyp_va(vcpu->arch.debug_ptr);
> > +
> > +	__debug_save_state(vcpu, __host_dbg, __host_ctxt);
> > +	__debug_restore_state(vcpu, __guest_dbg, __guest_ctxt);
> >  }
> >  
> > -void __hyp_text __debug_cond_restore_host_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> > +void __hyp_text __debug_switch_to_host(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> >  {
> > +	struct kvm_cpu_context *__host_ctxt;
> > +	struct kvm_cpu_context *__guest_ctxt;
> > +	struct kvm_guest_debug_arch *__host_dbg;
> > +	struct kvm_guest_debug_arch *__guest_dbg;
> > +
> >  	if (!has_vhe())
> >  		__debug_restore_spe(vcpu->arch.host_debug_state.pmscr_el1);
> >  
> > -	__debug_restore_state(vcpu, &vcpu->arch.host_debug_state.regs,
> > -			      kern_hyp_va(vcpu->arch.host_cpu_context));
> > +	if (!(vcpu->arch.debug_flags & KVM_ARM64_DEBUG_DIRTY))
> > +		return;
> > +
> > +	__host_ctxt = kern_hyp_va(vcpu->arch.host_cpu_context);
> > +	__guest_ctxt = &vcpu->arch.ctxt;
> > +	__host_dbg = &vcpu->arch.host_debug_state.regs;
> > +	__guest_dbg = kern_hyp_va(vcpu->arch.debug_ptr);
> > +
> > +	__debug_save_state(vcpu, __guest_dbg, __guest_ctxt);
> > +	__debug_restore_state(vcpu, __host_dbg, __host_ctxt);
> >  
> >  	vcpu->arch.debug_flags &= ~KVM_ARM64_DEBUG_DIRTY;
> >  }
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c
> > index ef05c59..e270cba 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c
> > @@ -271,7 +271,6 @@ int __hyp_text __kvm_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> >  	guest_ctxt = &vcpu->arch.ctxt;
> >  
> >  	__sysreg_save_host_state(host_ctxt);
> > -	__debug_cond_save_host_state(vcpu);
> >  
> >  	__activate_traps(vcpu);
> >  	__activate_vm(vcpu);
> > @@ -285,7 +284,7 @@ int __hyp_text __kvm_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> >  	 */
> >  	__sysreg32_restore_state(vcpu);
> >  	__sysreg_restore_guest_state(guest_ctxt);
> > -	__debug_restore_state(vcpu, kern_hyp_va(vcpu->arch.debug_ptr), guest_ctxt);
> > +	__debug_switch_to_guest(vcpu);
> >  
> >  	/* Jump in the fire! */
> >  again:
> > @@ -353,12 +352,11 @@ int __hyp_text __kvm_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> >  
> >  	__sysreg_restore_host_state(host_ctxt);
> >  
> > -	__debug_save_state(vcpu, kern_hyp_va(vcpu->arch.debug_ptr), guest_ctxt);
> >  	/*
> >  	 * This must come after restoring the host sysregs, since a non-VHE
> >  	 * system may enable SPE here and make use of the TTBRs.
> >  	 */
> > -	__debug_cond_restore_host_state(vcpu);
> > +	__debug_switch_to_host(vcpu);
> >  
> >  	return exit_code;
> >  }
> > -- 
> > 2.9.0
> >
> 
> This looks like a nice cleanup, but can you please add a note to the
> commit message about why we don't need to use the
> 
>  save-host-state
>  activate-traps-and-vm
>  restore-guest-state
> 
> and the reverse, patterns for the debug registers? 

I think the current commit message motivates the change fine.

Thanks,
-Christoffer



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