[PATCH v4 17/34] KVM: arm64: Elevate hypervisor mappings creation at EL2

[Will Deacon]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 05:57:34PM +0000, Quentin Perret wrote:
> Previous commits have introduced infrastructure to enable the EL2 code
> to manage its own stage 1 mappings. However, this was preliminary work,
> and none of it is currently in use.
> 
> Put all of this together by elevating the mapping creation at EL2 when
> memory protection is enabled. In this case, the host kernel running
> at EL1 still creates _temporary_ EL2 mappings, only used while
> initializing the hypervisor, but frees them right after.
> 
> As such, all calls to create_hyp_mappings() after kvm init has finished
> turn into hypercalls, as the host now has no 'legal' way to modify the
> hypevisor page tables directly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret at google.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h |  2 +-
>  arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c             | 87 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c             | 43 ++++++++++++++--
>  3 files changed, 120 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>

Will