[PATCH v4 17/21] KVM: arm64: Convert user_mem_abort() to generic page-table API

Marc Zyngier maz at kernel.org
Wed Sep 9 13:12:29 EDT 2020


Hi Alex,

On 2020-09-09 15:20, Alexandru Elisei wrote:
> Hi Will,
> 
> On 9/7/20 4:23 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
>> Convert user_mem_abort() to call kvm_pgtable_stage2_relax_perms() when
>> handling a stage-2 permission fault and kvm_pgtable_stage2_map() when
>> handling a stage-2 translation fault, rather than walking the 
>> page-table
>> manually.
>> 
>> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
>> Cc: Quentin Perret <qperret at google.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan at redhat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 124 
>> +++++++++++++++----------------------------
>>  1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 80 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
>> index 0af48f35c8dd..dc923e873dad 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
>> @@ -1496,18 +1496,19 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu 
>> *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
>>  {
>>  	int ret;
>>  	bool write_fault, writable, force_pte = false;
>> -	bool exec_fault, needs_exec;
>> +	bool exec_fault;
>> +	bool device = false;
>>  	unsigned long mmu_seq;
>> -	gfn_t gfn = fault_ipa >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>>  	struct kvm *kvm = vcpu->kvm;
>>  	struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache *memcache = &vcpu->arch.mmu_page_cache;
>>  	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
>>  	short vma_shift;
>> +	gfn_t gfn;
>>  	kvm_pfn_t pfn;
>> -	pgprot_t mem_type = PAGE_S2;
>>  	bool logging_active = memslot_is_logging(memslot);
>> -	unsigned long vma_pagesize, flags = 0;
>> -	struct kvm_s2_mmu *mmu = vcpu->arch.hw_mmu;
>> +	unsigned long vma_pagesize;
>> +	enum kvm_pgtable_prot prot = KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_R;
>> +	struct kvm_pgtable *pgt;
>> 
>>  	write_fault = kvm_is_write_fault(vcpu);
>>  	exec_fault = kvm_vcpu_trap_is_iabt(vcpu);
>> @@ -1540,22 +1541,24 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu 
>> *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
>>  		vma_pagesize = PAGE_SIZE;
>>  	}
>> 
>> -	/*
>> -	 * The stage2 has a minimum of 2 level table (For arm64 see
>> -	 * kvm_arm_setup_stage2()). Hence, we are guaranteed that we can
>> -	 * use PMD_SIZE huge mappings (even when the PMD is folded into 
>> PGD).
>> -	 * As for PUD huge maps, we must make sure that we have at least
>> -	 * 3 levels, i.e, PMD is not folded.
>> -	 */
>> -	if (vma_pagesize == PMD_SIZE ||
>> -	    (vma_pagesize == PUD_SIZE && kvm_stage2_has_pmd(kvm)))
>> -		gfn = (fault_ipa & huge_page_mask(hstate_vma(vma))) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>> +	if (vma_pagesize == PMD_SIZE || vma_pagesize == PUD_SIZE)
>> +		fault_ipa &= huge_page_mask(hstate_vma(vma));
> 
> This looks correct to me - if !kvm_stage2_has_pmd(), then PMD is folded 
> onto PUD
> and PGD, and PMD_SIZE == PUD_SIZE. Also I like the fact that we update
> gfn **and**
> fault_ipa, the previous version updated only gfn, which made gfn !=
> (fault_ipa >>
> PAGE_SHIFT).
> 
>> +
>> +	gfn = fault_ipa >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>>  	mmap_read_unlock(current->mm);
>> 
>> -	/* We need minimum second+third level pages */
>> -	ret = kvm_mmu_topup_memory_cache(memcache, 
>> kvm_mmu_cache_min_pages(kvm));
>> -	if (ret)
>> -		return ret;
>> +	/*
>> +	 * Permission faults just need to update the existing leaf entry,
>> +	 * and so normally don't require allocations from the memcache. The
>> +	 * only exception to this is when dirty logging is enabled at 
>> runtime
>> +	 * and a write fault needs to collapse a block entry into a table.
>> +	 */
>> +	if (fault_status != FSC_PERM || (logging_active && write_fault)) {
>> +		ret = kvm_mmu_topup_memory_cache(memcache,
>> +						 kvm_mmu_cache_min_pages(kvm));
>> +		if (ret)
>> +			return ret;
>> +	}
> 
> I'm not 100% sure about this.
> 
> I don't think we gain much over the previous code - if we had allocated 
> cache
> objects which we hadn't used, we would have used them next time 
> user_mem_abort()
> is called (kvm_mmu_topup_memory_cache() checks if we have the required 
> number of
> objects in the cache and returns early).
> 
> I'm not sure the condition is entirely correct either - if stage 2 
> already has a
> mapping for the IPA and we only need to set write permissions, 
> according to the
> condition above we still try to topup the cache, even though we don't 
> strictly
> need to.

That's because if you are logging, you may have to split an existing 
block
mapping and map a single page instead. This requires (at least) an extra
level, and that's why you need to top-up the cache in this case.

> 
>> 
>>  	mmu_seq = vcpu->kvm->mmu_notifier_seq;
>>  	/*
>> @@ -1578,28 +1581,20 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu 
>> *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
>>  		return -EFAULT;
>> 
>>  	if (kvm_is_device_pfn(pfn)) {
>> -		mem_type = PAGE_S2_DEVICE;
>> -		flags |= KVM_S2PTE_FLAG_IS_IOMAP;
>> -	} else if (logging_active) {
>> -		/*
>> -		 * Faults on pages in a memslot with logging enabled
>> -		 * should not be mapped with huge pages (it introduces churn
>> -		 * and performance degradation), so force a pte mapping.
>> -		 */
>> -		flags |= KVM_S2_FLAG_LOGGING_ACTIVE;
>> -
>> +		device = true;
>> +	} else if (logging_active && !write_fault) {
>>  		/*
>>  		 * Only actually map the page as writable if this was a write
>>  		 * fault.
>>  		 */
>> -		if (!write_fault)
>> -			writable = false;
>> +		writable = false;
>>  	}
>> 
>> -	if (exec_fault && is_iomap(flags))
>> +	if (exec_fault && device)
>>  		return -ENOEXEC;
>> 
>>  	spin_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
>> +	pgt = vcpu->arch.hw_mmu->pgt;
>>  	if (mmu_notifier_retry(kvm, mmu_seq))
>>  		goto out_unlock;
>> 
>> @@ -1610,62 +1605,31 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu 
>> *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
>>  	if (vma_pagesize == PAGE_SIZE && !force_pte)
>>  		vma_pagesize = transparent_hugepage_adjust(memslot, hva,
>>  							   &pfn, &fault_ipa);
>> -	if (writable)
>> +	if (writable) {
>> +		prot |= KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_W;
>>  		kvm_set_pfn_dirty(pfn);
>> +		mark_page_dirty(kvm, gfn);
> 
> The previous code called mark_page_dirty() only if the vma_pagesize == 
> PAGE_SIZE
> (and writable was true, obviously). Is this supposed to fix a bug?

No, this is actually introducing one. mark_page_dirty() checks that 
there is an
associated bitmap, and thus only happens when writing to a single page, 
but we
shouldn't do it for R/O memslots, which the current code avoids. It 
should be
guarded by logging_active.

> 
>> +	}
>> 
>> -	if (fault_status != FSC_PERM && !is_iomap(flags))
>> +	if (fault_status != FSC_PERM && !device)
>>  		clean_dcache_guest_page(pfn, vma_pagesize);
>> 
>> -	if (exec_fault)
>> +	if (exec_fault) {
>> +		prot |= KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_X;
>>  		invalidate_icache_guest_page(pfn, vma_pagesize);
>> +	}
>> 
>> -	/*
>> -	 * If we took an execution fault we have made the
>> -	 * icache/dcache coherent above and should now let the s2
>> -	 * mapping be executable.
>> -	 *
>> -	 * Write faults (!exec_fault && FSC_PERM) are orthogonal to
>> -	 * execute permissions, and we preserve whatever we have.
>> -	 */
>> -	needs_exec = exec_fault ||
>> -		(fault_status == FSC_PERM &&
>> -		 stage2_is_exec(mmu, fault_ipa, vma_pagesize));
>> -
>> -	if (vma_pagesize == PUD_SIZE) {
>> -		pud_t new_pud = kvm_pfn_pud(pfn, mem_type);
>> -
>> -		new_pud = kvm_pud_mkhuge(new_pud);
>> -		if (writable)
>> -			new_pud = kvm_s2pud_mkwrite(new_pud);
>> -
>> -		if (needs_exec)
>> -			new_pud = kvm_s2pud_mkexec(new_pud);
>> -
>> -		ret = stage2_set_pud_huge(mmu, memcache, fault_ipa, &new_pud);
>> -	} else if (vma_pagesize == PMD_SIZE) {
>> -		pmd_t new_pmd = kvm_pfn_pmd(pfn, mem_type);
>> -
>> -		new_pmd = kvm_pmd_mkhuge(new_pmd);
>> -
>> -		if (writable)
>> -			new_pmd = kvm_s2pmd_mkwrite(new_pmd);
>> -
>> -		if (needs_exec)
>> -			new_pmd = kvm_s2pmd_mkexec(new_pmd);
>> +	if (device)
>> +		prot |= KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_DEVICE;
>> +	else if (cpus_have_const_cap(ARM64_HAS_CACHE_DIC))
>> +		prot |= KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_X;
>> 
>> -		ret = stage2_set_pmd_huge(mmu, memcache, fault_ipa, &new_pmd);
>> +	if (fault_status == FSC_PERM && !(logging_active && writable)) {
> 
> I don't understand the second part of the condition (!(logging_active 
> &&
> writable)). With logging active, when we get a fault because of a
> missing stage 2
> entry, we map the IPA as read-only at stage 2. If I understand this 
> code
> correctly, when the guest then tries to write to the same IPA, writable 
> == true
> and we map the IPA again instead of relaxing the permissions. Why is 
> that?

See my reply above: logging means potentially adding a new level, so we
treat it as a new mapping altogether (break the block mapping, TLBI, 
install
the new mapping one level down).

All the other cases are happily handled by just relaxing the 
permissions.

Thanks,

         M.
-- 
Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...



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