[PATCH v8 16/43] arm64: RME: Handle realm enter/exit

Suzuki K Poulose suzuki.poulose at arm.com
Mon Jun 2 08:16:43 PDT 2025


On 02/06/2025 16:14, Steven Price wrote:
> On 29/05/2025 05:52, Emi Kisanuki (Fujitsu) wrote:
>> Hello, I comment below.
> 
> Hi Emi,
> 
>>> Subject: [PATCH v8 16/43] arm64: RME: Handle realm enter/exit
>>>
>>> Entering a realm is done using a SMC call to the RMM. On exit the exit-codes
>>> need to be handled slightly differently to the normal KVM path so define our own
>>> functions for realm enter/exit and hook them in if the guest is a realm guest.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price at arm.com>
>>> ---
> 
> [..]
> 
>>> +/*
>>> + * Return > 0 to return to guest, < 0 on error, 0 (and set exit_reason)
>>> +on
>>> + * proper exit to userspace.
>>> + */
>>> +int handle_rec_exit(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int rec_run_ret) {
>>> +	struct realm_rec *rec = &vcpu->arch.rec;
>>> +	u8 esr_ec = ESR_ELx_EC(rec->run->exit.esr);
>>> +	unsigned long status, index;
>>> +
>>> +	status = RMI_RETURN_STATUS(rec_run_ret);
>>> +	index = RMI_RETURN_INDEX(rec_run_ret);
>>> +
>>> +	/*
>>> +	 * If a PSCI_SYSTEM_OFF request raced with a vcpu executing, we
>>> might
>>> +	 * see the following status code and index indicating an attempt to run
>>> +	 * a REC when the RD state is SYSTEM_OFF.  In this case, we just need
>>> to
>>> +	 * return to user space which can deal with the system event or will try
>>> +	 * to run the KVM VCPU again, at which point we will no longer attempt
>>> +	 * to enter the Realm because we will have a sleep request pending on
>>> +	 * the VCPU as a result of KVM's PSCI handling.
>>> +	 */
>>> +	if (status == RMI_ERROR_REALM && index == 1) {
>>> +		vcpu->run->exit_reason = KVM_EXIT_UNKNOWN;
>>> +		return 0;
>>> +	}
>> Running kvm-unit-tests-cca selftest(smp) test in quick succession may trigger these conditions, resulting in the following error logs.
>>   Error: KVM exit reason: 0 ("KVM_EXIT_UNKNOWN")
>>
>> Since KVM_EXIT_UNKNOWN is used when no specific exit reason applies, I think it would be better to make it identifiable as an error.
>> How about adding and setting a new ARM64 exit_reason value to indicate that the PSCI_SYSTEM_OFF request is conflicting with a running vcpu?
> 
> Aneesh pointed this out to me off-list. We agreed that KVM_EXIT_SHUTDOWN
> was more appropriate here. I'll make the change for v9.

Sounds good to me

Cheers
Suzuki




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