[RFC PATCH v5 04/38] KVM: arm64: Defer CMOs for locked memslots until a VCPU is run

Reiji Watanabe reijiw at google.com
Wed Feb 23 21:56:01 PST 2022


Hi Alex,

On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 7:37 AM Alexandru Elisei
<alexandru.elisei at arm.com> wrote:
>
> KVM relies on doing dcache maintenance on stage 2 faults to present to a
> guest running with the MMU off the same view of memory as userspace. For
> locked memslots, KVM so far has done the dcache maintenance when a memslot
> is locked, but that leaves KVM in a rather awkward position: what userspace
> writes to guest memory after the memslot is locked, but before a VCPU is
> run, might not be visible to the guest.
>
> Fix this by deferring the dcache maintenance until the first VCPU is run.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei at arm.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h |  7 ++++
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h  |  5 +++
>  arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c              |  3 ++
>  arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c              | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  4 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> index 7fd70ad90c16..3b4839b447c4 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> @@ -113,6 +113,10 @@ struct kvm_arch_memory_slot {
>         u32 flags;
>  };
>
> +/* kvm->arch.mmu_pending_ops flags */
> +#define KVM_LOCKED_MEMSLOT_FLUSH_DCACHE        0
> +#define KVM_MAX_MMU_PENDING_OPS                1
> +
>  struct kvm_arch {
>         struct kvm_s2_mmu mmu;
>
> @@ -136,6 +140,9 @@ struct kvm_arch {
>          */
>         bool return_nisv_io_abort_to_user;
>
> +       /* Defer MMU operations until a VCPU is run. */
> +       unsigned long mmu_pending_ops;
> +
>         /*
>          * VM-wide PMU filter, implemented as a bitmap and big enough for
>          * up to 2^10 events (ARMv8.0) or 2^16 events (ARMv8.1+).
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
> index 2c50734f048d..cbf57c474fea 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
> @@ -219,6 +219,11 @@ void kvm_toggle_cache(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool was_enabled);
>  int kvm_mmu_lock_memslot(struct kvm *kvm, u64 slot, u64 flags);
>  int kvm_mmu_unlock_memslot(struct kvm *kvm, u64 slot, u64 flags);
>
> +#define kvm_mmu_has_pending_ops(kvm)   \
> +       (!bitmap_empty(&(kvm)->arch.mmu_pending_ops, KVM_MAX_MMU_PENDING_OPS))
> +
> +void kvm_mmu_perform_pending_ops(struct kvm *kvm);
> +
>  static inline unsigned int kvm_get_vmid_bits(void)
>  {
>         int reg = read_sanitised_ftr_reg(SYS_ID_AA64MMFR1_EL1);
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
> index b9b8b43835e3..96ed48455cdd 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
> @@ -870,6 +870,9 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>         if (unlikely(!kvm_vcpu_initialized(vcpu)))
>                 return -ENOEXEC;
>
> +       if (unlikely(kvm_mmu_has_pending_ops(vcpu->kvm)))
> +               kvm_mmu_perform_pending_ops(vcpu->kvm);
> +
>         ret = kvm_vcpu_first_run_init(vcpu);
>         if (ret)
>                 return ret;
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
> index b0a8e61315e4..8e4787019840 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -1305,6 +1305,40 @@ int kvm_handle_guest_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>         return ret;
>  }
>
> +/*
> + * It's safe to do the CMOs when the first VCPU is run because:
> + * - VCPUs cannot run until mmu_cmo_needed is cleared.

What does 'mmu_cmo_needed' mean ? Do you mean 'mmu_pending_ops' instead ?


> + * - Memslots cannot be modified because we hold the kvm->slots_lock.
> + *
> + * It's safe to periodically release the mmu_lock because:
> + * - VCPUs cannot run.
> + * - Any changes to the stage 2 tables triggered by the MMU notifiers also take
> + *   the mmu_lock, which means accesses will be serialized.
> + * - Stage 2 tables cannot be freed from under us as long as at least one VCPU
> + *   is live, which means that the VM will be live.
> + */
> +void kvm_mmu_perform_pending_ops(struct kvm *kvm)
> +{
> +       struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot;
> +
> +       mutex_lock(&kvm->slots_lock);
> +       if (!kvm_mmu_has_pending_ops(kvm))
> +               goto out_unlock;
> +
> +       if (test_bit(KVM_LOCKED_MEMSLOT_FLUSH_DCACHE, &kvm->arch.mmu_pending_ops)) {
> +               kvm_for_each_memslot(memslot, kvm_memslots(kvm)) {
> +                       if (!memslot_is_locked(memslot))
> +                               continue;

Shouldn't the code hold the mmu_lock to call stage2_flush_memslot() ?

> +                       stage2_flush_memslot(kvm, memslot);

Since stage2_flush_memslot() won't do anything when stage2_has_fwb()
returns true, I wonder if it can be checked even before iterating
memslots (so those iterations can be skipped when not needed).

Thanks,
Reiji

> +               }
> +               clear_bit(KVM_LOCKED_MEMSLOT_FLUSH_DCACHE, &kvm->arch.mmu_pending_ops);
> +       }
> +
> +out_unlock:
> +       mutex_unlock(&kvm->slots_lock);
> +       return;
> +}
> +
>  static int try_rlimit_memlock(unsigned long npages)
>  {
>         unsigned long lock_limit;
> @@ -1345,7 +1379,8 @@ static int lock_memslot(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot,
>         struct kvm_memory_slot_page *page_entry;
>         bool writable = flags & KVM_ARM_LOCK_MEM_WRITE;
>         enum kvm_pgtable_prot prot = KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_R;
> -       struct kvm_pgtable *pgt = kvm->arch.mmu.pgt;
> +       struct kvm_pgtable pgt;
> +       struct kvm_pgtable_mm_ops mm_ops;
>         struct vm_area_struct *vma;
>         unsigned long npages = memslot->npages;
>         unsigned int pin_flags = FOLL_LONGTERM;
> @@ -1363,6 +1398,16 @@ static int lock_memslot(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot,
>                 pin_flags |= FOLL_WRITE;
>         }
>
> +       /*
> +        * Make a copy of the stage 2 translation table struct to remove the
> +        * dcache callback so we can postpone the cache maintenance operations
> +        * until the first VCPU is run.
> +        */
> +       mm_ops = *kvm->arch.mmu.pgt->mm_ops;
> +       mm_ops.dcache_clean_inval_poc = NULL;
> +       pgt = *kvm->arch.mmu.pgt;
> +       pgt.mm_ops = &mm_ops;
> +
>         hva = memslot->userspace_addr;
>         ipa = memslot->base_gfn << PAGE_SHIFT;
>
> @@ -1414,13 +1459,13 @@ static int lock_memslot(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot,
>                         goto out_err;
>                 }
>
> -               ret = kvm_pgtable_stage2_map(pgt, ipa, PAGE_SIZE,
> +               ret = kvm_pgtable_stage2_map(&pgt, ipa, PAGE_SIZE,
>                                              page_to_phys(page_entry->page),
>                                              prot, &cache);
>                 spin_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
>
>                 if (ret) {
> -                       kvm_pgtable_stage2_unmap(pgt, memslot->base_gfn << PAGE_SHIFT,
> +                       kvm_pgtable_stage2_unmap(&pgt, memslot->base_gfn << PAGE_SHIFT,
>                                                  i << PAGE_SHIFT);
>                         unpin_memslot_pages(memslot, writable);
>                         goto out_err;
> @@ -1439,7 +1484,7 @@ static int lock_memslot(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot,
>          */
>         ret = account_locked_vm(current->mm, npages, true);
>         if (ret) {
> -               kvm_pgtable_stage2_unmap(pgt, memslot->base_gfn << PAGE_SHIFT,
> +               kvm_pgtable_stage2_unmap(&pgt, memslot->base_gfn << PAGE_SHIFT,
>                                          npages << PAGE_SHIFT);
>                 unpin_memslot_pages(memslot, writable);
>                 goto out_err;
> @@ -1449,6 +1494,8 @@ static int lock_memslot(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot,
>         if (writable)
>                 memslot->arch.flags |= KVM_MEMSLOT_LOCK_WRITE;
>
> +       set_bit(KVM_LOCKED_MEMSLOT_FLUSH_DCACHE, &kvm->arch.mmu_pending_ops);
> +
>         kvm_mmu_free_memory_cache(&cache);
>
>         return 0;
> --
> 2.33.1
>
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