[PATCH] KVM: arm64: Ensure I-cache isolation between vcpus of a same VM

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri Mar 5 19:07:09 GMT 2021


On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 04:45:05PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> It recently became apparent that the ARMv8 architecture has interesting
> rules regarding attributes being used when fetching instructions
> if the MMU is off at Stage-1.
> 
> In this situation, the CPU is allowed to fetch from the PoC and
> allocate into the I-cache (unless the memory is mapped with
> the XN attribute at Stage-2).

Digging through the ARM ARM is hard. Do we have this behaviour with FWB
as well?

-- 
Catalin



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