[PATCH v2 0/7] KVM: arm64: permit MAP_SHARED mappings with MTE enabled
Peter Collingbourne
pcc at google.com
Thu Jul 21 18:50:26 PDT 2022
Hi,
This patch series allows VMMs to use shared mappings in MTE enabled
guests. The first four patches are based on the series that Catalin sent
out, whose cover letter [1] I quote from below:
> This series aims to fix the races between initialising the tags on a
> page and setting the PG_mte_tagged flag. Currently the flag is set
> either before or after that tag initialisation and this can lead to CoW
> copying stale tags. The first patch moves the flag setting after the
> tags have been initialised, solving the CoW issue. However, concurrent
> mprotect() on a shared mapping may (very rarely) lead to valid tags
> being zeroed.
>
> The second skips the sanitise_mte_tags() call in kvm_set_spte_gfn(),
> deferring it to user_mem_abort(). The outcome is that no
> sanitise_mte_tags() can be simplified to skip the pfn_to_online_page()
> check and only rely on VM_MTE_ALLOWED vma flag that can be checked in
> user_mem_abort().
>
> The third and fourth patches use PG_arch_3 as a lock for page tagging,
> based on Peter Collingbourne's idea of a two-bit lock.
>
> I think the first patch can be queued but the rest needs some in depth
> review and test. With this series (if correct) we could allos MAP_SHARED
> on KVM guest memory but this is to be discussed separately as there are
> some KVM ABI implications.
I rebased Catalin's series onto -next, addressed the issues that I
identified in the review and added the proposed userspace enablement
patches after the series.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220705142619.4135905-1-catalin.marinas@arm.com/
Catalin Marinas (3):
arm64: mte: Fix/clarify the PG_mte_tagged semantics
KVM: arm64: Simplify the sanitise_mte_tags() logic
arm64: mte: Lock a page for MTE tag initialisation
Peter Collingbourne (4):
mm: Add PG_arch_3 page flag
KVM: arm64: unify the tests for VMAs in memslots when MTE is enabled
KVM: arm64: permit all VM_MTE_ALLOWED mappings with MTE enabled
Documentation: document the ABI changes for KVM_CAP_ARM_MTE
Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 5 +--
arch/arm64/include/asm/mte.h | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 3 +-
arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 4 ++-
arch/arm64/kernel/elfcore.c | 2 +-
arch/arm64/kernel/hibernate.c | 2 +-
arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c | 17 +++++----
arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c | 18 ++++++----
arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 55 ++++++++++++----------------
arch/arm64/mm/copypage.c | 6 ++--
arch/arm64/mm/fault.c | 4 ++-
arch/arm64/mm/mteswap.c | 5 ++-
fs/proc/page.c | 1 +
include/linux/page-flags.h | 1 +
include/trace/events/mmflags.h | 7 ++--
mm/huge_memory.c | 1 +
16 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)
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2.37.1.359.gd136c6c3e2-goog
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