[PATCH v2 00/11] arm64: ptdump: View the second stage page-tables

Sebastian Ene sebastianene at google.com
Thu Oct 19 07:40:21 PDT 2023


Hi,

This can be used as a debugging tool for dumping the second stage
page-tables under debugfs.

>From the previous feedback I re-worked the series and added support for
guest page-tables dumping under VHE & nVHE configuration. I extended the
list of reviewers as I missed the interested parties in the first round. 

When CONFIG_NVHE_EL2_PTDUMP_DEBUGFS is enabled under pKVM environment,
ptdump registers the 'host_stage2_kernel_page_tables' entry with debugfs.
Guests are registering a file named '%u_guest_stage2_page_tables' when
they are created. 

This allows us to dump the host stage-2 page-tables with the following command:
cat /sys/kernel/debug/host_stage2_kernel_page_tables.

The output is showing the entries in the following format:
<IPA range> <size> <descriptor type> <access permissions> <mem_attributes>

The tool interprets the pKVM ownership annotation stored in the invalid
entries and dumps to the console the ownership information. To be able
to access the host stage-2 page-tables from the kernel, a new hypervisor
call was introduced which allows us to snapshot the page-tables in a host
provided buffer. The hypervisor call is hidden behind CONFIG_NVHE_EL2_DEBUG
as this should be used under debugging environment.

Link to the first version:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230927112517.2631674-1-sebastianene@google.com/

Changelog:
  v1 -> v2:
  * use the stage-2 pagetable walker for dumping descriptors instead of
    the one provided by ptdump.

  * support for guests pagetables dumping under VHE/nVHE non-protected

Thanks,


Sebastian Ene (11):
  KVM: arm64: Add snap shooting the host stage-2 pagetables
  arm64: ptdump: Use the mask from the state structure
  arm64: ptdump: Add the walker function to the ptdump info structure
  KVM: arm64: Move pagetable definitions to common header
  arm64: ptdump: Introduce stage-2 pagetables format description
  arm64: ptdump: Add hooks on debugfs file operations
  arm64: ptdump: Register a debugfs entry for the host stage-2
    page-tables
  arm64: ptdump: Parse the host stage-2 page-tables from the snapshot
  arm64: ptdump: Interpret memory attributes based on runtime
    configuration
  arm64: ptdump: Interpret pKVM ownership annotations
  arm64: ptdump: Add support for guest stage-2 pagetables dumping

 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h              |   1 +
 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h          |  85 +++
 arch/arm64/include/asm/ptdump.h               |  27 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig                        |  12 +
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/mem_protect.h |   8 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c            |  18 +
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c         | 103 ++++
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c                  |  98 ++--
 arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c                          |   3 +
 arch/arm64/mm/ptdump.c                        | 487 +++++++++++++++++-
 arch/arm64/mm/ptdump_debugfs.c                |  42 +-
 11 files changed, 822 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-)

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