[PATCH v5 13/40] KVM: arm64: Introduce VHE-specific kvm_vcpu_run
Andrew Jones
drjones at redhat.com
Tue Feb 27 05:35:27 PST 2018
On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 12:34:02PM +0100, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> From: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
>
> So far this is mostly (see below) a copy of the legacy non-VHE switch
> function, but we will start reworking these functions in separate
> directions to work on VHE and non-VHE in the most optimal way in later
> patches.
>
> The only difference after this patch between the VHE and non-VHE run
> functions is that we omit the branch-predictor variant-2 hardening for
> QC Falkor CPUs, because this workaround is specific to a series of
> non-VHE ARMv8.0 CPUs.
>
> Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
> ---
>
> Notes:
> Changes since v4:
> - Unified has_vhe() conditional calls in kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run
> - Added isb() on exit path of VHE-specific kvm_vcpu_run(), because
> otherwise 32-bit guests can crash the system on reentry to the
> guest, because writes to FPEXC32_EL2 will cause a trap at EL2
> which leads to a hyp panic. This can be observed on the model
> where writing FPEN to CPACR_EL1 on guest exit doesn't take effect
> prior to entering the guest again.
>
> Changes since v3:
> - Added BUG() to 32-bit ARM VHE run function
> - Omitted QC Falkor BP Hardening functionality from VHE-specific
> function
>
> Changes since v2:
> - Reworded commit message
>
> Changes since v1:
> - Rename kvm_vcpu_run to kvm_vcpu_run_vhe and rename __kvm_vcpu_run to
> __kvm_vcpu_run_nvhe
> - Removed stray whitespace line
>
> arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_asm.h | 5 ++-
> arch/arm/kvm/hyp/switch.c | 2 +-
> arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h | 4 ++-
> arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 7 +++++
> arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c | 66 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> virt/kvm/arm/arm.c | 12 ++++---
> 6 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <drjones at redhat.com>
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