[PATCH v2 0/5] KVM nVHE Hypervisor stack unwinder

Kalesh Singh kaleshsingh at google.com
Mon May 2 12:12:00 PDT 2022


Hi all,

This v2 of the nVHE hypervisor stack unwinder. The previous version was
posted at:
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220427184716.1949239-1-kaleshsingh@google.com/

The series is based on arm64 for-next/core and is also dependent on
kvm-arm64/hyp-stack-guard [1].

The main changes in this version is splitting some patches into more
incremental changes, per Mark Brown

The relevant parts of the previous cover letter are copied below for
convenience.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms.git/log/?h=kvm-arm64/hyp-stack-guard

Thanks,
Kalesh

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This new version of the unwinder splits the unwinding and dumping
of the stack between the hypervisor and host:
  - The hypervisor unwinds its stack and dumps the address entries
    into a page shared with the host.
  - The host then symnolizes and prints the hyp stacktrace from
    the shared page.

The new approach doesn't depend on CONFIG_NVHE_EL2_DEBUG,
and allows dumping hyp stacktraces in prodcution environments
(!CONFIG_NVHE_EL2_DEBUG).

arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c is compiled twice: stacktrace.o for the
host kernel and stacktrace.nvhe.o for the hypervisor. This allows
reusing most of the host unwinding logic in the nVHE hypervisor.


Kalesh Singh (5):
  KVM: arm64: Factor out common stack unwinding logic
  KVM: arm64: Compile stacktrace.nvhe.o
  KVM: arm64: Add hypervisor overflow stack
  KVM: arm64: Allocate shared stacktrace pages
  KVM: arm64: Unwind and dump nVHE hypervisor stacktrace

 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h    |   1 +
 arch/arm64/include/asm/stacktrace.h |  58 +++++++++--
 arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c      | 151 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c                |  34 +++++++
 arch/arm64/kvm/handle_exit.c        |   4 +
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/Makefile    |   3 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/host.S      |   9 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/setup.c     |  11 ++
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/switch.c    |   4 +
 9 files changed, 231 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)

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