[V14 5/8] KVM: arm64: nvhe: Disable branch generation in nVHE guests

Anshuman Khandual anshuman.khandual at arm.com
Mon Nov 13 21:13:26 PST 2023


Disable the BRBE before we enter the guest, saving the status and enable it
back once we get out of the guest. This is just to avoid capturing records
in the guest kernel/userspace, which would be confusing the samples.

Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
Cc: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton at linux.dev>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Cc: kvmarm at lists.linux.dev
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
CC: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
---
Changes in V14:

- This is a new patch in the series

 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h  |  4 ++++
 arch/arm64/kvm/debug.c             |  6 +++++
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/debug-sr.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 48 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 68421c74283a..1faa0430d8dd 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -449,6 +449,8 @@ enum vcpu_sysreg {
 	CNTHV_CVAL_EL2,
 	PMSCR_EL1,	/* Statistical profiling extension */
 	TRFCR_EL1,	/* Self-hosted trace filters */
+	BRBCR_EL1,	/* Branch Record Buffer Control Register */
+	BRBFCR_EL1,	/* Branch Record Buffer Function Control Register */
 
 	NR_SYS_REGS	/* Nothing after this line! */
 };
@@ -753,6 +755,8 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch {
 #define VCPU_HYP_CONTEXT	__vcpu_single_flag(iflags, BIT(7))
 /* Save trace filter controls */
 #define DEBUG_STATE_SAVE_TRFCR	__vcpu_single_flag(iflags, BIT(8))
+/* Save BRBE context if active  */
+#define DEBUG_STATE_SAVE_BRBE	__vcpu_single_flag(iflags, BIT(9))
 
 /* SVE enabled for host EL0 */
 #define HOST_SVE_ENABLED	__vcpu_single_flag(sflags, BIT(0))
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/debug.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/debug.c
index 2ab41b954512..4055783c3d34 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/debug.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/debug.c
@@ -354,6 +354,11 @@ void kvm_arch_vcpu_load_debug_state_flags(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 		    !(read_sysreg_s(SYS_TRBIDR_EL1) & TRBIDR_EL1_P))
 			vcpu_set_flag(vcpu, DEBUG_STATE_SAVE_TRBE);
 	}
+
+	/* Check if we have BRBE implemented and available at the host */
+	if (cpuid_feature_extract_unsigned_field(dfr0, ID_AA64DFR0_EL1_BRBE_SHIFT) &&
+	    (read_sysreg_s(SYS_BRBCR_EL1) & (BRBCR_ELx_E0BRE | BRBCR_ELx_ExBRE)))
+		vcpu_set_flag(vcpu, DEBUG_STATE_SAVE_BRBE);
 }
 
 void kvm_arch_vcpu_put_debug_state_flags(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
@@ -361,6 +366,7 @@ void kvm_arch_vcpu_put_debug_state_flags(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	vcpu_clear_flag(vcpu, DEBUG_STATE_SAVE_SPE);
 	vcpu_clear_flag(vcpu, DEBUG_STATE_SAVE_TRBE);
 	vcpu_clear_flag(vcpu, DEBUG_STATE_SAVE_TRFCR);
+	vcpu_clear_flag(vcpu, DEBUG_STATE_SAVE_BRBE);
 }
 
 void kvm_etm_set_guest_trfcr(u64 trfcr_guest)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/debug-sr.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/debug-sr.c
index 6174f710948e..e44a1f71a0f8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/debug-sr.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/debug-sr.c
@@ -93,6 +93,38 @@ static void __debug_restore_trace(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt,
 		write_sysreg_s(ctxt_sys_reg(host_ctxt, TRFCR_EL1), SYS_TRFCR_EL1);
 }
 
+static void __debug_save_brbe(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt)
+{
+	ctxt_sys_reg(host_ctxt, BRBCR_EL1) = 0;
+	ctxt_sys_reg(host_ctxt, BRBFCR_EL1) = 0;
+
+	/* Check if the BRBE is enabled */
+	if (!(ctxt_sys_reg(host_ctxt, BRBCR_EL1) & (BRBCR_ELx_E0BRE | BRBCR_ELx_ExBRE)))
+		return;
+
+	/*
+	 * Prohibit branch record generation while we are in guest.
+	 * Since access to BRBCR_EL1 and BRBFCR_EL1 is trapped, the
+	 * guest can't modify the filtering set by the host.
+	 */
+	ctxt_sys_reg(host_ctxt, BRBCR_EL1) = read_sysreg_s(SYS_BRBCR_EL1);
+	ctxt_sys_reg(host_ctxt, BRBFCR_EL1) = read_sysreg_s(SYS_BRBFCR_EL1);
+	write_sysreg_s(0, SYS_BRBCR_EL1);
+	write_sysreg_s(0, SYS_BRBFCR_EL1);
+	isb();
+}
+
+static void __debug_restore_brbe(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt)
+{
+	if (!ctxt_sys_reg(host_ctxt, BRBCR_EL1) || !ctxt_sys_reg(host_ctxt, BRBFCR_EL1))
+		return;
+
+	/* Restore BRBE controls */
+	write_sysreg_s(ctxt_sys_reg(host_ctxt, BRBCR_EL1), SYS_BRBCR_EL1);
+	write_sysreg_s(ctxt_sys_reg(host_ctxt, BRBFCR_EL1), SYS_BRBFCR_EL1);
+	isb();
+}
+
 void __debug_save_host_buffers_nvhe(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt,
 				    struct kvm_cpu_context *guest_ctxt)
 {
@@ -102,6 +134,10 @@ void __debug_save_host_buffers_nvhe(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt,
 
 	if (vcpu_get_flag(host_ctxt->__hyp_running_vcpu, DEBUG_STATE_SAVE_TRFCR))
 		__debug_save_trace(host_ctxt, guest_ctxt);
+
+	/* Disable BRBE branch records */
+	if (vcpu_get_flag(host_ctxt->__hyp_running_vcpu, DEBUG_STATE_SAVE_BRBE))
+		__debug_save_brbe(host_ctxt);
 }
 
 void __debug_switch_to_guest(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
@@ -116,6 +152,8 @@ void __debug_restore_host_buffers_nvhe(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt,
 		__debug_restore_spe(host_ctxt);
 	if (vcpu_get_flag(host_ctxt->__hyp_running_vcpu, DEBUG_STATE_SAVE_TRFCR))
 		__debug_restore_trace(host_ctxt, guest_ctxt);
+	if (vcpu_get_flag(host_ctxt->__hyp_running_vcpu, DEBUG_STATE_SAVE_BRBE))
+		__debug_restore_brbe(host_ctxt);
 }
 
 void __debug_switch_to_host(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
-- 
2.25.1




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