[PATCH 01/10] KVM: arm64: initialize HCRX_EL2
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri Mar 17 07:25:26 PDT 2023
On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 04:00:03PM +0000, Kristina Martsenko wrote:
> ARMv8.7/9.2 adds a new hypervisor configuration register HCRX_EL2.
> Initialize the register to a safe value (all fields 0), to be robust
> against firmware that has not initialized it.
I think the risk of firmware not initialising this register is small
given that EL3 needs to set SCR_EL3.HXEn to allow EL2 access. But it
doesn't hurt to re-initialise it in the hypervisor.
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> index 212d93aca5e6..e06b34322339 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> @@ -572,6 +572,13 @@ SYM_INNER_LABEL(init_el2, SYM_L_LOCAL)
> msr hcr_el2, x0
> isb
>
> + mrs x0, ID_AA64MMFR1_EL1
> + ubfx x0, x0, #ID_AA64MMFR1_EL1_HCX_SHIFT, #4
> + cbz x0, 3f
> + mov_q x1, HCRX_HOST_FLAGS
> + msr_s SYS_HCRX_EL2, x1
> + isb
> +3:
> init_el2_state
Nitpick: we can probably leave a single ISB after both HCR_EL2 and
HCRX_EL2 are initialised. Well, we could probably drop all of them
altogether, there's at least one down this path.
>
> /* Hypervisor stub */
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-init.S b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-init.S
> index a6d67c2bb5ae..01f854697c70 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-init.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-init.S
> @@ -95,6 +95,12 @@ SYM_CODE_START_LOCAL(___kvm_hyp_init)
> ldr x1, [x0, #NVHE_INIT_HCR_EL2]
> msr hcr_el2, x1
>
> + mrs x1, ID_AA64MMFR1_EL1
> + ubfx x1, x1, #ID_AA64MMFR1_EL1_HCX_SHIFT, #4
> + cbz x1, 1f
> + mov_q x2, HCRX_HOST_FLAGS
> + msr_s SYS_HCRX_EL2, x2
> +1:
Maybe you could use a macro to avoid writing this sequence twice. I lost
track of the KVM initialisation refactoring since pKVM, it looks like
the other register values are loaded from a structure here. I guess a
value of 0 doesn't make sense to store (unless at a later point it
becomes non-zero).
--
Catalin
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