[PATCH 05/10] KVM: arm/arm64: Limit icache invalidation to prefetch aborts
Christoffer Dall
cdall at linaro.org
Mon Oct 16 13:08:32 PDT 2017
On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 04:20:27PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> We've so far eagerly invalidated the icache, no matter how
> the page was faulted in (data or prefetch abort).
>
> But we can easily track execution by setting the XN bits
> in the S2 page tables, get the prefetch abort at HYP and
> perform the icache invalidation at that time only.
>
> As for most VMs, the instruction working set is pretty
> small compared to the data set, this is likely to save
> some traffic (specially as the invalidation is broadcast).
>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
> ---
> arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h | 12 ++++++++++++
> arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h | 4 ++--
> arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h | 12 ++++++++++++
> arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h | 4 ++--
> virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c | 19 +++++++++++++++----
> 5 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
> index 6773dcf21bff..bf76150aad5f 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
> @@ -85,6 +85,18 @@ static inline pmd_t kvm_s2pmd_mkwrite(pmd_t pmd)
> return pmd;
> }
>
> +static inline pte_t kvm_s2pte_mkexec(pte_t pte)
> +{
> + pte_val(pte) &= ~L_PTE_XN;
> + return pte;
> +}
> +
> +static inline pmd_t kvm_s2pmd_mkexec(pmd_t pmd)
> +{
> + pmd_val(pmd) &= ~PMD_SECT_XN;
> + return pmd;
> +}
> +
> static inline void kvm_set_s2pte_readonly(pte_t *pte)
> {
> pte_val(*pte) = (pte_val(*pte) & ~L_PTE_S2_RDWR) | L_PTE_S2_RDONLY;
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h
> index 1c462381c225..9b6e77b9ab7e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h
> @@ -102,8 +102,8 @@ extern pgprot_t pgprot_s2_device;
> #define PAGE_HYP_EXEC _MOD_PROT(pgprot_kernel, L_PTE_HYP | L_PTE_RDONLY)
> #define PAGE_HYP_RO _MOD_PROT(pgprot_kernel, L_PTE_HYP | L_PTE_RDONLY | L_PTE_XN)
> #define PAGE_HYP_DEVICE _MOD_PROT(pgprot_hyp_device, L_PTE_HYP)
> -#define PAGE_S2 _MOD_PROT(pgprot_s2, L_PTE_S2_RDONLY)
> -#define PAGE_S2_DEVICE _MOD_PROT(pgprot_s2_device, L_PTE_S2_RDONLY)
> +#define PAGE_S2 _MOD_PROT(pgprot_s2, L_PTE_S2_RDONLY | L_PTE_XN)
> +#define PAGE_S2_DEVICE _MOD_PROT(pgprot_s2_device, L_PTE_S2_RDONLY | L_PTE_XN)
>
> #define __PAGE_NONE __pgprot(_L_PTE_DEFAULT | L_PTE_RDONLY | L_PTE_XN | L_PTE_NONE)
> #define __PAGE_SHARED __pgprot(_L_PTE_DEFAULT | L_PTE_USER | L_PTE_XN)
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
> index 48d31ca2ce9c..60c420a5ac0d 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
> @@ -173,6 +173,18 @@ static inline pmd_t kvm_s2pmd_mkwrite(pmd_t pmd)
> return pmd;
> }
>
> +static inline pte_t kvm_s2pte_mkexec(pte_t pte)
> +{
> + pte_val(pte) &= ~PTE_S2_XN;
> + return pte;
> +}
> +
> +static inline pmd_t kvm_s2pmd_mkexec(pmd_t pmd)
> +{
> + pmd_val(pmd) &= ~PMD_S2_XN;
> + return pmd;
> +}
> +
> static inline void kvm_set_s2pte_readonly(pte_t *pte)
> {
> pteval_t old_pteval, pteval;
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h
> index 0a5635fb0ef9..4e12dabd342b 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h
> @@ -60,8 +60,8 @@
> #define PAGE_HYP_RO __pgprot(_PAGE_DEFAULT | PTE_HYP | PTE_RDONLY | PTE_HYP_XN)
> #define PAGE_HYP_DEVICE __pgprot(PROT_DEVICE_nGnRE | PTE_HYP)
>
> -#define PAGE_S2 __pgprot(PROT_DEFAULT | PTE_S2_MEMATTR(MT_S2_NORMAL) | PTE_S2_RDONLY)
> -#define PAGE_S2_DEVICE __pgprot(PROT_DEFAULT | PTE_S2_MEMATTR(MT_S2_DEVICE_nGnRE) | PTE_S2_RDONLY | PTE_UXN)
> +#define PAGE_S2 __pgprot(PROT_DEFAULT | PTE_S2_MEMATTR(MT_S2_NORMAL) | PTE_S2_RDONLY | PTE_S2_XN)
> +#define PAGE_S2_DEVICE __pgprot(PROT_DEFAULT | PTE_S2_MEMATTR(MT_S2_DEVICE_nGnRE) | PTE_S2_RDONLY | PTE_S2_XN)
>
> #define PAGE_NONE __pgprot(((_PAGE_DEFAULT) & ~PTE_VALID) | PTE_PROT_NONE | PTE_RDONLY | PTE_PXN | PTE_UXN)
> #define PAGE_SHARED __pgprot(_PAGE_DEFAULT | PTE_USER | PTE_NG | PTE_PXN | PTE_UXN | PTE_WRITE)
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c b/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
> index 9e5628388af8..1d47da22f75c 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
> @@ -1292,7 +1292,7 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
> unsigned long fault_status)
> {
> int ret;
> - bool write_fault, writable, hugetlb = false, force_pte = false;
> + bool write_fault, exec_fault, writable, hugetlb = false, force_pte = false;
> unsigned long mmu_seq;
> gfn_t gfn = fault_ipa >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> struct kvm *kvm = vcpu->kvm;
> @@ -1304,7 +1304,10 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
> unsigned long flags = 0;
>
> write_fault = kvm_is_write_fault(vcpu);
> - if (fault_status == FSC_PERM && !write_fault) {
> + exec_fault = kvm_vcpu_trap_is_iabt(vcpu);
> + VM_BUG_ON(write_fault && exec_fault);
> +
> + if (fault_status == FSC_PERM && !write_fault && !exec_fault) {
> kvm_err("Unexpected L2 read permission error\n");
> return -EFAULT;
> }
> @@ -1398,7 +1401,11 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
> kvm_set_pfn_dirty(pfn);
> }
> coherent_dcache_guest_page(vcpu, pfn, PMD_SIZE);
> - coherent_icache_guest_page(vcpu, pfn, PMD_SIZE);
> +
> + if (exec_fault) {
> + new_pmd = kvm_s2pmd_mkexec(new_pmd);
> + coherent_icache_guest_page(vcpu, pfn, PMD_SIZE);
> + }
>
> ret = stage2_set_pmd_huge(kvm, memcache, fault_ipa, &new_pmd);
> } else {
> @@ -1410,7 +1417,11 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
> mark_page_dirty(kvm, gfn);
> }
> coherent_dcache_guest_page(vcpu, pfn, PAGE_SIZE);
> - coherent_icache_guest_page(vcpu, pfn, PAGE_SIZE);
> +
> + if (exec_fault) {
> + new_pte = kvm_s2pte_mkexec(new_pte);
> + coherent_icache_guest_page(vcpu, pfn, PAGE_SIZE);
> + }
>
> ret = stage2_set_pte(kvm, memcache, fault_ipa, &new_pte, flags);
> }
> --
> 2.14.1
>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
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