[PATCH v5 08/14] KVM: arm64: Protect stage-2 traversal with RCU

Ben Gardon bgardon at google.com
Wed Nov 9 14:25:38 PST 2022


On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 1:57 PM Oliver Upton <oliver.upton at linux.dev> wrote:
>
> Use RCU to safely walk the stage-2 page tables in parallel. Acquire and
> release the RCU read lock when traversing the page tables. Defer the
> freeing of table memory to an RCU callback. Indirect the calls into RCU
> and provide stubs for hypervisor code, as RCU is not available in such a
> context.
>
> The RCU protection doesn't amount to much at the moment, as readers are
> already protected by the read-write lock (all walkers that free table
> memory take the write lock). Nonetheless, a subsequent change will
> futher relax the locking requirements around the stage-2 MMU, thereby
> depending on RCU.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton at linux.dev>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c         | 10 +++++-
>  arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c                 | 14 +++++++-
>  3 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h
> index e70cf57b719e..7634b6964779 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h
> @@ -37,6 +37,13 @@ static inline u64 kvm_get_parange(u64 mmfr0)
>
>  typedef u64 kvm_pte_t;
>
> +/*
> + * RCU cannot be used in a non-kernel context such as the hyp. As such, page
> + * table walkers used in hyp do not call into RCU and instead use other
> + * synchronization mechanisms (such as a spinlock).
> + */
> +#if defined(__KVM_NVHE_HYPERVISOR__) || defined(__KVM_VHE_HYPERVISOR__)
> +
>  typedef kvm_pte_t *kvm_pteref_t;
>
>  static inline kvm_pte_t *kvm_dereference_pteref(kvm_pteref_t pteref, bool shared)
> @@ -44,6 +51,40 @@ static inline kvm_pte_t *kvm_dereference_pteref(kvm_pteref_t pteref, bool shared
>         return pteref;
>  }
>
> +static inline void kvm_pgtable_walk_begin(void) {}
> +static inline void kvm_pgtable_walk_end(void) {}
> +
> +static inline bool kvm_pgtable_walk_lock_held(void)
> +{
> +       return true;

Forgive my ignorance, but does hyp not use a MMU lock at all? Seems
like this would be a good place to add a lockdep check.

> +}
> +
> +#else
> +
> +typedef kvm_pte_t __rcu *kvm_pteref_t;
> +
> +static inline kvm_pte_t *kvm_dereference_pteref(kvm_pteref_t pteref, bool shared)
> +{
> +       return rcu_dereference_check(pteref, !shared);

Same here, could add a lockdep check depending on shared.

> +}
> +
> +static inline void kvm_pgtable_walk_begin(void)
> +{
> +       rcu_read_lock();
> +}
> +
> +static inline void kvm_pgtable_walk_end(void)
> +{
> +       rcu_read_unlock();
> +}
> +
> +static inline bool kvm_pgtable_walk_lock_held(void)
> +{
> +       return rcu_read_lock_held();

Likewise could do some lockdep here.

> +}
> +
> +#endif
> +
>  #define KVM_PTE_VALID                  BIT(0)
>
>  #define KVM_PTE_ADDR_MASK              GENMASK(47, PAGE_SHIFT)
> @@ -202,11 +243,14 @@ struct kvm_pgtable {
>   *                                     children.
>   * @KVM_PGTABLE_WALK_TABLE_POST:       Visit table entries after their
>   *                                     children.
> + * @KVM_PGTABLE_WALK_SHARED:           Indicates the page-tables may be shared
> + *                                     with other software walkers.
>   */
>  enum kvm_pgtable_walk_flags {
>         KVM_PGTABLE_WALK_LEAF                   = BIT(0),
>         KVM_PGTABLE_WALK_TABLE_PRE              = BIT(1),
>         KVM_PGTABLE_WALK_TABLE_POST             = BIT(2),
> +       KVM_PGTABLE_WALK_SHARED                 = BIT(3),

Not sure if necessary, but it might pay to have 3 shared options:
exclusive, shared mmu lock, no mmu lock if we ever want lockless fast
page faults.


>  };
>
>  struct kvm_pgtable_visit_ctx {
> @@ -223,6 +267,11 @@ struct kvm_pgtable_visit_ctx {
>  typedef int (*kvm_pgtable_visitor_fn_t)(const struct kvm_pgtable_visit_ctx *ctx,
>                                         enum kvm_pgtable_walk_flags visit);
>
> +static inline bool kvm_pgtable_walk_shared(const struct kvm_pgtable_visit_ctx *ctx)
> +{
> +       return ctx->flags & KVM_PGTABLE_WALK_SHARED;
> +}
> +
>  /**
>   * struct kvm_pgtable_walker - Hook into a page-table walk.
>   * @cb:                Callback function to invoke during the walk.
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
> index 7c9782347570..d8d963521d4e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
> @@ -171,6 +171,9 @@ static int kvm_pgtable_visitor_cb(struct kvm_pgtable_walk_data *data,
>                                   enum kvm_pgtable_walk_flags visit)
>  {
>         struct kvm_pgtable_walker *walker = data->walker;
> +
> +       /* Ensure the appropriate lock is held (e.g. RCU lock for stage-2 MMU) */
> +       WARN_ON_ONCE(kvm_pgtable_walk_shared(ctx) && !kvm_pgtable_walk_lock_held());
>         return walker->cb(ctx, visit);
>  }
>
> @@ -281,8 +284,13 @@ int kvm_pgtable_walk(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt, u64 addr, u64 size,
>                 .end    = PAGE_ALIGN(walk_data.addr + size),
>                 .walker = walker,
>         };
> +       int r;
> +
> +       kvm_pgtable_walk_begin();
> +       r = _kvm_pgtable_walk(pgt, &walk_data);
> +       kvm_pgtable_walk_end();
>
> -       return _kvm_pgtable_walk(pgt, &walk_data);
> +       return r;
>  }
>
>  struct leaf_walk_data {
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
> index 73ae908eb5d9..52e042399ba5 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -130,9 +130,21 @@ static void kvm_s2_free_pages_exact(void *virt, size_t size)
>
>  static struct kvm_pgtable_mm_ops kvm_s2_mm_ops;
>
> +static void stage2_free_removed_table_rcu_cb(struct rcu_head *head)
> +{
> +       struct page *page = container_of(head, struct page, rcu_head);
> +       void *pgtable = page_to_virt(page);
> +       u32 level = page_private(page);
> +
> +       kvm_pgtable_stage2_free_removed(&kvm_s2_mm_ops, pgtable, level);
> +}
> +
>  static void stage2_free_removed_table(void *addr, u32 level)
>  {
> -       kvm_pgtable_stage2_free_removed(&kvm_s2_mm_ops, addr, level);
> +       struct page *page = virt_to_page(addr);
> +
> +       set_page_private(page, (unsigned long)level);
> +       call_rcu(&page->rcu_head, stage2_free_removed_table_rcu_cb);
>  }
>
>  static void kvm_host_get_page(void *addr)
> --
> 2.38.1.431.g37b22c650d-goog
>



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