[PATCH 13/16] KVM: arm64: nv: Request vPE doorbell upon nested ERET to L2

Marc Zyngier maz at kernel.org
Tue Dec 17 07:13:28 PST 2024


From: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton at linux.dev>

Running an L2 guest with GICv4 enabled goes absolutely nowhere, and gets
into a vicious cycle of nested ERET followed by nested exception entry
into the L1.

When KVM does a put on a runnable vCPU, it marks the vPE as nonresident
but does not request a doorbell IRQ. Behind the scenes in the ITS
driver's view of the vCPU, its_vpe::pending_last gets set to true to
indicate that context is still runnable.

This comes to a head when doing the nested ERET into L2. The vPE doesn't
get scheduled on the redistributor as it is exclusively part of the L1's
VGIC context. kvm_vgic_vcpu_pending_irq() returns true because the vPE
appears runnable, and KVM does a nested exception entry into the L1
before L2 ever gets off the ground.

This issue can be papered over by requesting a doorbell IRQ when
descheduling a vPE as part of a nested ERET. KVM needs this anyway to
kick the vCPU out of the L2 when an IRQ becomes pending for the L1.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton at linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240823212703.3576061-4-oliver.upton@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h |  2 ++
 arch/arm64/kvm/emulate-nested.c   |  2 ++
 arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v4.c     | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index cb969c096d7bd..18d9166761972 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -958,6 +958,8 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch {
 #define PMUSERENR_ON_CPU	__vcpu_single_flag(sflags, BIT(4))
 /* WFI instruction trapped */
 #define IN_WFI			__vcpu_single_flag(sflags, BIT(5))
+/* KVM is currently emulating a nested ERET */
+#define IN_NESTED_ERET		__vcpu_single_flag(sflags, BIT(6))
 
 
 /* Pointer to the vcpu's SVE FFR for sve_{save,load}_state() */
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/emulate-nested.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/emulate-nested.c
index c460b8403aec5..69233dcc81a46 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/emulate-nested.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/emulate-nested.c
@@ -2434,6 +2434,7 @@ void kvm_emulate_nested_eret(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	}
 
 	preempt_disable();
+	vcpu_set_flag(vcpu, IN_NESTED_ERET);
 	kvm_arch_vcpu_put(vcpu);
 
 	if (!esr_iss_is_eretax(esr))
@@ -2445,6 +2446,7 @@ void kvm_emulate_nested_eret(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	*vcpu_cpsr(vcpu) = spsr;
 
 	kvm_arch_vcpu_load(vcpu, smp_processor_id());
+	vcpu_clear_flag(vcpu, IN_NESTED_ERET);
 	preempt_enable();
 
 	kvm_pmu_nested_transition(vcpu);
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v4.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v4.c
index eedecbbbcf31b..0d9fb235c0180 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v4.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v4.c
@@ -336,6 +336,22 @@ void vgic_v4_teardown(struct kvm *kvm)
 	its_vm->vpes = NULL;
 }
 
+static inline bool vgic_v4_want_doorbell(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+{
+	if (vcpu_get_flag(vcpu, IN_WFI))
+		return true;
+
+	if (likely(!vcpu_has_nv(vcpu)))
+		return false;
+
+	/*
+	 * GICv4 hardware is only ever used for the L1. Mark the vPE (i.e. the
+	 * L1 context) nonresident and request a doorbell to kick us out of the
+	 * L2 when an IRQ becomes pending.
+	 */
+	return vcpu_get_flag(vcpu, IN_NESTED_ERET);
+}
+
 int vgic_v4_put(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 {
 	struct its_vpe *vpe = &vcpu->arch.vgic_cpu.vgic_v3.its_vpe;
@@ -343,7 +359,7 @@ int vgic_v4_put(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	if (!vgic_supports_direct_msis(vcpu->kvm) || !vpe->resident)
 		return 0;
 
-	return its_make_vpe_non_resident(vpe, !!vcpu_get_flag(vcpu, IN_WFI));
+	return its_make_vpe_non_resident(vpe, vgic_v4_want_doorbell(vcpu));
 }
 
 int vgic_v4_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
-- 
2.39.2




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