[PATCH RFC v3 0/3] riscv: add Svukte extension

Max Hsu max.hsu at sifive.com
Wed Nov 20 06:09:31 PST 2024


RISC-V privileged spec will be added with Svukte extension [1]

Svukte introduce senvcfg.UKTE and hstatus.HUKTE bitfield.
which makes user-mode access to supervisor memory raise page faults
in constant time, mitigating attacks that attempt to discover the
supervisor software's address-space layout.

In the Linux kernel, since the hstatus.HU bit is not enabled,
the following patches only enable the use of senvcfg.UKTE.

For Guest environments, because a Guest OS (not limited to Linux)
may hold mappings from GVA to GPA, the Guest OS should decide
whether to enable the protection provided by the Svukte extension.
Therefore, the functions kvm_riscv_vcpu_isa_(enable|disable)_allowed
can use default case (which will return true) in the switch-case.

If the Guest environment wants to change senvcfg.UKTE, KVM already
provides the senvcfg CSR swap support via
kvm_riscv_vcpu_swap_in_(host|guest)_state.
Thus, there is no concern about the Guest OS affecting the Host OS.

The following patches add
- dt-binding of Svukte ISA string
- CSR bit definition, ISA detection, senvcfg.UKTE enablement in kernel
- KVM ISA support for Svukte extension

Changes in v3:
- rebase on riscv/for-next
- fixed typo in the dt-binding for the Svukte ISA string
- updated the commit message for KVM support for the Svukte extension
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240927-dev-maxh-svukte-rebase-2-v2-0-9afe57c33aee@sifive.com/

Changes in v2:
- rebase on riscv/for-next (riscv-for-linus-6.12-mw1)
- modify the description of dt-binding on Svukte ISA string
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240920-dev-maxh-svukte-rebase-v1-0-7864a88a62bd@sifive.com/

Link: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-isa-manual/pull/1564 [1]

Signed-off-by: Max Hsu <max.hsu at sifive.com>

---
Max Hsu (3):
      dt-bindings: riscv: Add Svukte entry
      riscv: Add Svukte extension support
      riscv: KVM: Add Svukte extension support for Guest/VM

 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/extensions.yaml | 9 +++++++++
 arch/riscv/include/asm/csr.h                            | 2 ++
 arch/riscv/include/asm/hwcap.h                          | 1 +
 arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h                       | 1 +
 arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c                          | 5 +++++
 arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_onereg.c                            | 1 +
 6 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
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base-commit: 0eb512779d642b21ced83778287a0f7a3ca8f2a1
change-id: 20241115-dev-maxh-svukte-v3-af46d650ac0b

Best regards,
-- 
Max Hsu <max.hsu at sifive.com>




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