[PATCH] KVM/arm64: Don't emulate a PMU for 32-bit guests if feature not set

Alexandru Elisei alexandru.elisei at arm.com
Tue Apr 26 02:01:13 PDT 2022


On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 08:05:11AM +0000, Oliver Upton wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 03:55:30PM +0100, Alexandru Elisei wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > The root cause remains the same: kvm->arch.pmuver was never set to
> > something sensible because the VCPU feature itself was never set.
> > 
> > The odroid-c4 is somewhat of a special case, because Linux doesn't probe
> > the PMU. But the above errors can easily be reproduced on any hardware,
> > with or without a PMU driver, as long as userspace doesn't set the PMU
> > feature.
> 
> This note has me wondering if we could do more negative testing with
> kvm-unit-tests just by selectively turning on/off features, with the
> expectation that tests either skip or pass.

I'm not sure that that can be accomplished right now. kvm-unit-tests
supports only qemu as an automated test runner, and qemu enables the PMU by
default. I don't know if it can be disabled, it would be nice if it could.
I stumbled upon this by mistake, when I ran kvmtool without enabling the
PMU (the default in kvmtool is to not have it enabled).

If it is possible to disable PMU emulation from the qemu's command line,
then it should be as simple as writing a test that expects all PMU register
accesses to trigger an undefined exception (and adding a new test
definition).

If it is not possible to do this with qemu, then we would have to wait
until kvm-unit-tests can use kvmtool as the test runner. I have an RFC sent
for that [1], I need to get back to it.

Another option would be to have this as a kselftest, although I don't know
how easy it is to register an exception handler in a kselftest. The test
could be further expanded to other registers gated by a VCPU feature being
set.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/kvmarm/20210702163122.96110-1-alexandru.elisei@arm.com/

> 
> > Work around the fact that KVM advertises a PMU even when the VCPU feature
> > is not set by gating all PMU emulation on the feature. The guest can still
> > access the registers without KVM injecting an undefined exception.
> 
> We're going to need something similar even after KVM conditionally
> advertises the PMU.
> 
> WDYT about wiring up sys_reg_desc::visibility for the AArch32 PMU
> registers? For now just treat them as REG_RAZ (probably extend this to
> imply WI too) then promote to REG_HIDDEN in a later patch.

I was thinking you can simply use .visibility = pmu_visibility, like it's
done with the PMU_SYS_REG macro:

--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
@@ -2014,19 +2014,22 @@ static const struct sys_reg_desc cp14_64_regs[] = {
        { Op1( 0), CRm( 2), .access = trap_raz_wi },
 };

+#define CP15_PMU_SYS_REG(_map, _Op1, _CRn, _CRm, _Op2)                 \
+       AA32(_map),                                                     \
+       Op1(_Op1), CRn(_CRn), CRm(_CRm), Op2(_Op2),                     \
+       .visibility = pmu_visibility
+
 /* Macro to expand the PMEVCNTRn register */
 #define PMU_PMEVCNTR(n)                                                        \
-       /* PMEVCNTRn */                                                 \
-       { Op1(0), CRn(0b1110),                                          \
-         CRm((0b1000 | (((n) >> 3) & 0x3))), Op2(((n) & 0x7)),         \
-         access_pmu_evcntr }
+       { CP15_PMU_SYS_REG(DIRECT, 0, 0b1110,                           \
+         (0b1000 | (((n) >> 3) & 0x3)), ((n) & 0x7)),                  \
+         .access = access_pmu_evcntr }

 /* Macro to expand the PMEVTYPERn register */
 #define PMU_PMEVTYPER(n)                                               \
-       /* PMEVTYPERn */                                                \
-       { Op1(0), CRn(0b1110),                                          \
-         CRm((0b1100 | (((n) >> 3) & 0x3))), Op2(((n) & 0x7)),         \
-         access_pmu_evtyper }
+       { CP15_PMU_SYS_REG(DIRECT, 0, 0b1110,                           \
+         (0b1100 | (((n) >> 3) & 0x3)), ((n) & 0x7)),                  \
+         .access = access_pmu_evtyper }

 /*
  * Trapped cp15 registers. TTBR0/TTBR1 get a double encoding,
@@ -2067,25 +2070,25 @@ static const struct sys_reg_desc cp15_regs[] = {
        { Op1( 0), CRn( 7), CRm(14), Op2( 2), access_dcsw },

        /* PMU */
-       { Op1( 0), CRn( 9), CRm(12), Op2( 0), access_pmcr },
-       { Op1( 0), CRn( 9), CRm(12), Op2( 1), access_pmcnten },
-       { Op1( 0), CRn( 9), CRm(12), Op2( 2), access_pmcnten },
-       { Op1( 0), CRn( 9), CRm(12), Op2( 3), access_pmovs },
-       { Op1( 0), CRn( 9), CRm(12), Op2( 4), access_pmswinc },
-       { Op1( 0), CRn( 9), CRm(12), Op2( 5), access_pmselr },
-       { AA32(LO), Op1( 0), CRn( 9), CRm(12), Op2( 6), access_pmceid },
-       { AA32(LO), Op1( 0), CRn( 9), CRm(12), Op2( 7), access_pmceid },
-       { Op1( 0), CRn( 9), CRm(13), Op2( 0), access_pmu_evcntr },
-       { Op1( 0), CRn( 9), CRm(13), Op2( 1), access_pmu_evtyper },
-       { Op1( 0), CRn( 9), CRm(13), Op2( 2), access_pmu_evcntr },
-       { Op1( 0), CRn( 9), CRm(14), Op2( 0), access_pmuserenr },
-       { Op1( 0), CRn( 9), CRm(14), Op2( 1), access_pminten },
-       { Op1( 0), CRn( 9), CRm(14), Op2( 2), access_pminten },
-       { Op1( 0), CRn( 9), CRm(14), Op2( 3), access_pmovs },
-       { AA32(HI), Op1( 0), CRn( 9), CRm(14), Op2( 4), access_pmceid },
-       { AA32(HI), Op1( 0), CRn( 9), CRm(14), Op2( 5), access_pmceid },
+       { CP15_PMU_SYS_REG(DIRECT, 0, 9, 12, 0), .access = access_pmcr },
+       { CP15_PMU_SYS_REG(DIRECT, 0, 9, 12, 1), .access = access_pmcnten },
+       { CP15_PMU_SYS_REG(DIRECT, 0, 9, 12, 2), .access = access_pmcnten },
+       { CP15_PMU_SYS_REG(DIRECT, 0, 9, 12, 3), .access = access_pmovs },
+       { CP15_PMU_SYS_REG(DIRECT, 0, 9, 12, 4), .access = access_pmswinc },
+       { CP15_PMU_SYS_REG(DIRECT, 0, 9, 12, 5), .access = access_pmselr },
+       { CP15_PMU_SYS_REG(LO,     0, 9, 12, 6), .access = access_pmceid },
+       { CP15_PMU_SYS_REG(LO,     0, 9, 12, 7), .access = access_pmceid },
+       { CP15_PMU_SYS_REG(DIRECT, 0, 9, 13, 0), .access = access_pmu_evcntr },
+       { CP15_PMU_SYS_REG(DIRECT, 0, 9, 13, 1), .access = access_pmu_evtyper },
+       { CP15_PMU_SYS_REG(DIRECT, 0, 9, 13, 2), .access = access_pmu_evcntr },
+       { CP15_PMU_SYS_REG(DIRECT, 0, 9, 14, 0), .access = access_pmuserenr },
+       { CP15_PMU_SYS_REG(DIRECT, 0, 9, 14, 1), .access = access_pminten },
+       { CP15_PMU_SYS_REG(DIRECT, 0, 9, 14, 2), .access = access_pminten },
+       { CP15_PMU_SYS_REG(DIRECT, 0, 9, 14, 3), .access = access_pmovs },
+       { CP15_PMU_SYS_REG(HI,     0, 9, 14, 4), .access = access_pmceid },
+       { CP15_PMU_SYS_REG(HI,     0, 9, 14, 5), .access = access_pmceid },

I've renamed AA32_ZEROHIGH -> AA32_DIRECT. Feel free to use the snippet as
you see fit (or not at all).

Thanks,
Alex



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