[PATCH v3 2/5] KVM: arm64: nvhe: Synchronise with page table walker on TLBI

Oliver Upton oliver.upton at linux.dev
Thu Apr 13 08:53:04 PDT 2023


On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 09:14:38AM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> A TLBI from EL2 impacting EL1 involves messing with the EL1&0
> translation regime, and the page table walker may still be
> performing speculative walks.
> 
> Piggyback on the existing DSBs to always have a DSB ISH that
> will synchronise all load/store operations that the PTW may
> still have.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton at linux.dev>

> ---
>  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/tlb.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/tlb.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/tlb.c
> index d296d617f589..1da2fc35f94e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/tlb.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/tlb.c
> @@ -15,8 +15,31 @@ struct tlb_inv_context {
>  };
>  
>  static void __tlb_switch_to_guest(struct kvm_s2_mmu *mmu,
> -				  struct tlb_inv_context *cxt)
> +				  struct tlb_inv_context *cxt,
> +				  bool nsh)
>  {
> +	/*
> +	 * We have two requirements:
> +	 *
> +	 * - ensure that the page table updates are visible to all
> +         *   CPUs, for which a dsb(DOMAIN-st) is what we need, DOMAIN
> +         *   being either ish or nsh, depending on the invalidation
> +         *   type.
> +	 *
> +	 * - complete any speculative page table walk started before
> +         *   we trapped to EL2 so that we can mess with the MM
> +         *   registers out of context, for which dsb(nsh) is enough

Looks like a few of these lines are indented with spaces, not tabs. Mind
fixing this when you apply the patches?

-- 
Thanks,
Oliver



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