[PATCH v4 03/40] KVM: arm64: Avoid storing the vcpu pointer on the stack

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Thu Feb 22 01:35:10 PST 2018


On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 09:02:48 +0000,
Christoffer Dall wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 11:34:07AM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 Feb 2018 21:02:55 +0000,
> > Christoffer Dall wrote:
> > > 
> > > We already have the percpu area for the host cpu state, which points to
> > > the VCPU, so there's no need to store the VCPU pointer on the stack on
> > > every context switch.  We can be a little more clever and just use
> > > tpidr_el2 for the percpu offset and load the VCPU pointer from the host
> > > context.
> > > 
> > > This does require us to calculate the percpu offset without including
> > > the offset from the kernel mapping of the percpu array to the linear
> > > mapping of the array (which is what we store in tpidr_el1), because a
> > > PC-relative generated address in EL2 is already giving us the hyp alias
> > > of the linear mapping of a kernel address.  We do this in
> > > __cpu_init_hyp_mode() by using kvm_ksym_ref().
> > > 
> > > This change also requires us to have a scratch register, so we take the
> > > chance to rearrange some of the el1_sync code to only look at the
> > > vttbr_el2 to determine if this is a trap from the guest or an HVC from
> > > the host.  We do add an extra check to call the panic code if the kernel
> > > is configured with debugging enabled and we saw a trap from the host
> > > which wasn't an HVC, indicating that we left some EL2 trap configured by
> > > mistake.
> > > 
> > > The code that accesses ESR_EL2 was previously using an alternative to
> > > use the _EL1 accessor on VHE systems, but this was actually unnecessary
> > > as the _EL1 accessor aliases the ESR_EL2 register on VHE, and the _EL2
> > > accessor does the same thing on both systems.
> > > 
> > > Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
> > > ---
> > > 
> > > Notes:
> > >     Changes since v3:
> > >      - Reworked the assembly part of the patch after rebasing on v4.16-rc1
> > >        which created a conflict with the variant 2 mitigations.
> > >      - Removed Marc's reviewed-by due to the rework.
> > >      - Removed unneeded extern keyword in declaration in header file
> > >     
> > >     Changes since v1:
> > >      - Use PC-relative addressing to access per-cpu variables instead of
> > >        using a load from the literal pool.
> > >      - Remove stale comments as pointed out by Marc
> > >      - Reworded the commit message as suggested by Drew
> > > 
> > >  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h  | 14 ++++++++++++++
> > >  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 15 +++++++++++++++
> > >  arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c   |  1 +
> > >  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/entry.S        |  6 +-----
> > >  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/hyp-entry.S    | 31 +++++++++++++------------------
> > >  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c       |  5 +----
> > >  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/sysreg-sr.c    |  5 +++++
> > >  7 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h
> > > index 24961b732e65..6b626750b0a1 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h
> > > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h
> > > @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
> > >  #define KVM_ARM64_DEBUG_DIRTY_SHIFT	0
> > >  #define KVM_ARM64_DEBUG_DIRTY		(1 << KVM_ARM64_DEBUG_DIRTY_SHIFT)
> > >  
> > > +/* Translate a kernel address of @sym into its equivalent linear mapping */
> > >  #define kvm_ksym_ref(sym)						\
> > >  	({								\
> > >  		void *val = &sym;					\
> > > @@ -70,6 +71,19 @@ extern u32 __init_stage2_translation(void);
> > >  
> > >  extern void __qcom_hyp_sanitize_btac_predictors(void);
> > >  
> > > +#else /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
> > > +
> > > +.macro get_host_ctxt reg, tmp
> > > +	adr_l	\reg, kvm_host_cpu_state
> > > +	mrs	\tmp, tpidr_el2
> > > +	add	\reg, \reg, \tmp
> > > +.endm
> > > +
> > > +.macro get_vcpu vcpu, ctxt
> > > +	ldr	\vcpu, [\ctxt, #HOST_CONTEXT_VCPU]
> > > +	kern_hyp_va	\vcpu
> > > +.endm
> > > +
> > >  #endif
> > >  
> > >  #endif /* __ARM_KVM_ASM_H__ */
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> > > index 596f8e414a4c..618cfee7206a 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> > > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> > > @@ -358,10 +358,15 @@ int kvm_perf_teardown(void);
> > >  
> > >  struct kvm_vcpu *kvm_mpidr_to_vcpu(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long mpidr);
> > >  
> > > +void __kvm_set_tpidr_el2(u64 tpidr_el2);
> > > +DECLARE_PER_CPU(kvm_cpu_context_t, kvm_host_cpu_state);
> > > +
> > >  static inline void __cpu_init_hyp_mode(phys_addr_t pgd_ptr,
> > >  				       unsigned long hyp_stack_ptr,
> > >  				       unsigned long vector_ptr)
> > >  {
> > > +	u64 tpidr_el2;
> > > +
> > >  	/*
> > >  	 * Call initialization code, and switch to the full blown HYP code.
> > >  	 * If the cpucaps haven't been finalized yet, something has gone very
> > > @@ -370,6 +375,16 @@ static inline void __cpu_init_hyp_mode(phys_addr_t pgd_ptr,
> > >  	 */
> > >  	BUG_ON(!static_branch_likely(&arm64_const_caps_ready));
> > >  	__kvm_call_hyp((void *)pgd_ptr, hyp_stack_ptr, vector_ptr);
> > > +
> > > +	/*
> > > +	 * Calculate the raw per-cpu offset without a translation from the
> > > +	 * kernel's mapping to the linear mapping, and store it in tpidr_el2
> > > +	 * so that we can use adr_l to access per-cpu variables in EL2.
> > > +	 */
> > > +	tpidr_el2 = (u64)this_cpu_ptr(&kvm_host_cpu_state)
> > > +		- (u64)kvm_ksym_ref(kvm_host_cpu_state);
> > > +
> > > +	kvm_call_hyp(__kvm_set_tpidr_el2, tpidr_el2);
> > >  }
> > >  
> > >  static inline void kvm_arch_hardware_unsetup(void) {}
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c
> > > index 1303e04110cd..78e1b0a70aaf 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c
> > > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c
> > > @@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ int main(void)
> > >    DEFINE(CPU_FP_REGS,		offsetof(struct kvm_regs, fp_regs));
> > >    DEFINE(VCPU_FPEXC32_EL2,	offsetof(struct kvm_vcpu, arch.ctxt.sys_regs[FPEXC32_EL2]));
> > >    DEFINE(VCPU_HOST_CONTEXT,	offsetof(struct kvm_vcpu, arch.host_cpu_context));
> > > +  DEFINE(HOST_CONTEXT_VCPU,	offsetof(struct kvm_cpu_context, __hyp_running_vcpu));
> > >  #endif
> > >  #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_PM
> > >    DEFINE(CPU_SUSPEND_SZ,	sizeof(struct cpu_suspend_ctx));
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/entry.S
> > > index fdd1068ee3a5..1f458f7c3b44 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/entry.S
> > > +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/entry.S
> > > @@ -62,9 +62,6 @@ ENTRY(__guest_enter)
> > >  	// Store the host regs
> > >  	save_callee_saved_regs x1
> > >  
> > > -	// Store host_ctxt and vcpu for use at exit time
> > > -	stp	x1, x0, [sp, #-16]!
> > > -
> > >  	add	x18, x0, #VCPU_CONTEXT
> > >  
> > >  	// Restore guest regs x0-x17
> > > @@ -118,8 +115,7 @@ ENTRY(__guest_exit)
> > >  	// Store the guest regs x19-x29, lr
> > >  	save_callee_saved_regs x1
> > >  
> > > -	// Restore the host_ctxt from the stack
> > > -	ldr	x2, [sp], #16
> > > +	get_host_ctxt	x2, x3
> > >  
> > >  	// Now restore the host regs
> > >  	restore_callee_saved_regs x2
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/hyp-entry.S b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/hyp-entry.S
> > > index f36464bd57c5..559b4d54bc42 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/hyp-entry.S
> > > +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/hyp-entry.S
> > > @@ -57,13 +57,8 @@ ENDPROC(__vhe_hyp_call)
> > >  el1_sync:				// Guest trapped into EL2
> > >  	stp	x0, x1, [sp, #-16]!
> > >  
> > > -alternative_if_not ARM64_HAS_VIRT_HOST_EXTN
> > > -	mrs	x1, esr_el2
> > > -alternative_else
> > > -	mrs	x1, esr_el1
> > > -alternative_endif
> > > -	lsr	x0, x1, #ESR_ELx_EC_SHIFT
> > > -
> > > +	mrs	x0, esr_el2
> > > +	lsr	x0, x0, #ESR_ELx_EC_SHIFT
> > >  	cmp	x0, #ESR_ELx_EC_HVC64
> > >  	ccmp	x0, #ESR_ELx_EC_HVC32, #4, ne
> > >  	b.ne	el1_trap
> > > @@ -117,10 +112,15 @@ el1_hvc_guest:
> > >  	eret
> > >  
> > >  el1_trap:
> > > +	get_host_ctxt	x0, x1
> > > +	get_vcpu	x1, x0
> > > +
> > > +	mrs		x0, esr_el2
> > > +	lsr		x0, x0, #ESR_ELx_EC_SHIFT
> > >  	/*
> > >  	 * x0: ESR_EC
> > > +	 * x1: vcpu pointer
> > >  	 */
> > > -	ldr	x1, [sp, #16 + 8]	// vcpu stored by __guest_enter
> > >  
> > >  	/*
> > >  	 * We trap the first access to the FP/SIMD to save the host context
> > > @@ -138,13 +138,15 @@ alternative_else_nop_endif
> > >  
> > >  el1_irq:
> > >  	stp     x0, x1, [sp, #-16]!
> > > -	ldr	x1, [sp, #16 + 8]
> > > +	get_host_ctxt	x0, x1
> > > +	get_vcpu	x1, x0
> > >  	mov	x0, #ARM_EXCEPTION_IRQ
> > >  	b	__guest_exit
> > >  
> > >  el1_error:
> > >  	stp     x0, x1, [sp, #-16]!
> > > -	ldr	x1, [sp, #16 + 8]
> > > +	get_host_ctxt	x0, x1
> > > +	get_vcpu	x1, x0
> > 
> > Given how frequent this construct is, would there be a benefit in
> > having something like "get_vcpu_ptr" that conflates the two macros? We
> > don't seem to have a single case of using get_vcpu on its own.
> > 
> 
> I think my intention was to make it obvious how we get to the vcpu
> pointer, but looking at it now I don't think this adds anything, so I'm
> happy to adjust.  How about adding a get_vcpu_ptr macro which calls the
> other two macros?

Sure, that would make sense.

> 
> > >  	mov	x0, #ARM_EXCEPTION_EL1_SERROR
> > >  	b	__guest_exit
> > >  
> > > @@ -180,14 +182,7 @@ ENTRY(__hyp_do_panic)
> > >  ENDPROC(__hyp_do_panic)
> > >  
> > >  ENTRY(__hyp_panic)
> > > -	/*
> > > -	 * '=kvm_host_cpu_state' is a host VA from the constant pool, it may
> > > -	 * not be accessible by this address from EL2, hyp_panic() converts
> > > -	 * it with kern_hyp_va() before use.
> > > -	 */
> > > -	ldr	x0, =kvm_host_cpu_state
> > > -	mrs	x1, tpidr_el2
> > > -	add	x0, x0, x1
> > > +	get_host_ctxt x0, x1
> > >  	b	hyp_panic
> > >  ENDPROC(__hyp_panic)
> > >  
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c
> > > index b991f85c1133..d1749fa0bfc3 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c
> > > +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c
> > > @@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ static hyp_alternate_select(__hyp_call_panic,
> > >  			    __hyp_call_panic_nvhe, __hyp_call_panic_vhe,
> > >  			    ARM64_HAS_VIRT_HOST_EXTN);
> > >  
> > > -void __hyp_text __noreturn hyp_panic(struct kvm_cpu_context *__host_ctxt)
> > > +void __hyp_text __noreturn hyp_panic(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt)
> > >  {
> > >  	struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu = NULL;
> > >  
> > > @@ -476,9 +476,6 @@ void __hyp_text __noreturn hyp_panic(struct kvm_cpu_context *__host_ctxt)
> > >  	u64 par = read_sysreg(par_el1);
> > >  
> > >  	if (read_sysreg(vttbr_el2)) {
> > > -		struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt;
> > > -
> > > -		host_ctxt = kern_hyp_va(__host_ctxt);
> > >  		vcpu = host_ctxt->__hyp_running_vcpu;
> > >  		__timer_disable_traps(vcpu);
> > >  		__deactivate_traps(vcpu);
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/sysreg-sr.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/sysreg-sr.c
> > > index 2c17afd2be96..43b7dd65e3e6 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/sysreg-sr.c
> > > +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/sysreg-sr.c
> > > @@ -189,3 +189,8 @@ void __hyp_text __sysreg32_restore_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> > >  	if (vcpu->arch.debug_flags & KVM_ARM64_DEBUG_DIRTY)
> > >  		write_sysreg(sysreg[DBGVCR32_EL2], dbgvcr32_el2);
> > >  }
> > > +
> > > +void __hyp_text __kvm_set_tpidr_el2(u64 tpidr_el2)
> > > +{
> > > +	asm("msr tpidr_el2, %0": : "r" (tpidr_el2));
> > 
> > The paranoid in me says that we'd want an ISB here if we can possibly
> > use tpidr_el2 on this path. If we had to manic, for example...
> > 
> 
> I'm not sure I follow.  Are you not guaranteed that an mrs after msr
> would reflect the latest written value, even without an ISB?

You're absolutely right. /me dropping paranoia levels.

Thanks,

	M.

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