[PATCH 2/3] KVM: arm64: Don't pass a TLBI level hint when zapping table entries

Oliver Upton oliver.upton at linux.dev
Tue Mar 26 06:12:55 PDT 2024


On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 09:34:16AM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 01:37:43AM -0700, Oliver Upton wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 06:51:57PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > The TLBI level hints are for leaf entries only, so take care not to pass
> > > them incorrectly after clearing a table entry.
> > > 
> > > Cc: Gavin Shan <gshan at redhat.com>
> > > Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
> > > Cc: Quentin Perret <qperret at google.com>
> > > Fixes: 82bb02445de5 ("KVM: arm64: Implement kvm_pgtable_hyp_unmap() at EL2")
> > > Fixes: 6d9d2115c480 ("KVM: arm64: Add support for stage-2 map()/unmap() in generic page-table")
> > > Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
> > > ---
> > >  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c | 12 +++++++-----
> > >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
> > > index de0b667ba296..a40dafc43bb6 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
> > > +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
> > > @@ -528,7 +528,7 @@ static int hyp_unmap_walker(const struct kvm_pgtable_visit_ctx *ctx,
> > >  
> > >  		kvm_clear_pte(ctx->ptep);
> > >  		dsb(ishst);
> > > -		__tlbi_level(vae2is, __TLBI_VADDR(ctx->addr, 0), ctx->level);
> > > +		__tlbi_level(vae2is, __TLBI_VADDR(ctx->addr, 0), TLBI_TTL_UNKNOWN);
> > >  	} else {
> > >  		if (ctx->end - ctx->addr < granule)
> > >  			return -EINVAL;
> > > @@ -896,10 +896,12 @@ static void stage2_unmap_put_pte(const struct kvm_pgtable_visit_ctx *ctx,
> > >  	if (kvm_pte_valid(ctx->old)) {
> > >  		kvm_clear_pte(ctx->ptep);
> > >  
> > > -		if (!stage2_unmap_defer_tlb_flush(pgt) ||
> > > -		    kvm_pte_table(ctx->old, ctx->level)) {
> > > -			kvm_call_hyp(__kvm_tlb_flush_vmid_ipa, mmu,
> > > -					ctx->addr, ctx->level);
> > > +		if (kvm_pte_table(ctx->old, ctx->level)) {
> > > +			kvm_call_hyp(__kvm_tlb_flush_vmid_ipa, mmu, ctx->addr,
> > > +				     TLBI_TTL_UNKNOWN);
> > 
> > Ah, here it is! Can you add this invalidation to patch #1? Otherwise the
> > fix will intermediately introduce another bug, AFAICT.
> 
> Heh, well I'd argue that bug already exists in the case that TLB
> invalidation isn't deferred, so that's why I kept them separate.

Ah, that's fine, when I was looking at this earlier I thought this
patch was getting blamed on LPA2, although patch #1 needs to go a bit
further back.

I'm fine with this as is, but maybe add a blurb to the changelog hinting
that the level hint is BS but will be fixed in a future change.

-- 
Thanks,
Oliver



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