[PATCH v2 08/15] KVM: arm64: Protect stage-2 traversal with RCU

Oliver Upton oliver.upton at linux.dev
Fri Oct 7 16:28:11 PDT 2022


The use of RCU is necessary to safely change the stage-2 page tables in
parallel. Acquire and release the RCU read lock when traversing the page
tables.

Use the _raw() flavor of rcu_dereference when changes to the page tables
are otherwise protected from parallel software walkers (e.g. holding the
write lock).

Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton at linux.dev>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c         |  7 +++++-
 2 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h
index beb89eac155c..60c37e5e77dd 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h
@@ -25,6 +25,13 @@ 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)
@@ -32,6 +39,33 @@ 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) {}
+
+#else
+
+typedef kvm_pte_t __rcu *kvm_pteref_t;
+
+static inline kvm_pte_t *kvm_dereference_pteref(kvm_pteref_t pteref, bool shared)
+{
+	if (shared)
+		return rcu_dereference(pteref);
+
+	return rcu_dereference_raw(pteref);
+}
+
+static inline void kvm_pgtable_walk_begin(void)
+{
+	rcu_read_lock();
+}
+
+static inline void kvm_pgtable_walk_end(void)
+{
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+}
+
+#endif
+
 #define KVM_PTE_VALID			BIT(0)
 
 #define KVM_PTE_ADDR_MASK		GENMASK(47, PAGE_SHIFT)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
index 6b6e1ed7ee2f..c2be15850497 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
@@ -281,8 +281,13 @@ int kvm_pgtable_walk(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt, u64 addr, u64 size,
 		.end	= PAGE_ALIGN(walk_data.addr + size),
 		.walker	= walker,
 	};
+	int r;
 
-	return _kvm_pgtable_walk(pgt, &walk_data);
+	kvm_pgtable_walk_begin();
+	r = _kvm_pgtable_walk(pgt, &walk_data);
+	kvm_pgtable_walk_end();
+
+	return r;
 }
 
 struct leaf_walk_data {
-- 
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