[PATCH v4 30/66] KVM: arm64: nv: Only toggle cache for virtual EL2 when SCTLR_EL2 changes

Marc Zyngier maz at kernel.org
Mon May 10 09:58:44 PDT 2021


From: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>

So far we were flushing almost the entire universe whenever a VM would
load/unload the SCTLR_EL1 and the two versions of that register had
different MMU enabled settings.  This turned out to be so slow that it
prevented forward progress for a nested VM, because a scheduler timer
tick interrupt would always be pending when we reached the nested VM.

To avoid this problem, we consider the SCTLR_EL2 when evaluating if
caches are on or off when entering virtual EL2 (because this is the
value that we end up shadowing onto the hardware EL1 register).

Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jintack Lim <jintack.lim at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
index 25ed956f9af1..0be00ec66e0f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ alternative_cb_end
 #include <asm/cache.h>
 #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
 #include <asm/mmu_context.h>
+#include <asm/kvm_emulate.h>
 
 void kvm_update_va_mask(struct alt_instr *alt,
 			__le32 *origptr, __le32 *updptr, int nr_inst);
@@ -184,7 +185,10 @@ struct kvm;
 
 static inline bool vcpu_has_cache_enabled(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 {
-	return (vcpu_read_sys_reg(vcpu, SCTLR_EL1) & 0b101) == 0b101;
+	if (vcpu_mode_el2(vcpu))
+		return (__vcpu_sys_reg(vcpu, SCTLR_EL2) & 0b101) == 0b101;
+	else
+		return (vcpu_read_sys_reg(vcpu, SCTLR_EL1) & 0b101) == 0b101;
 }
 
 static inline void __clean_dcache_guest_page(kvm_pfn_t pfn, unsigned long size)
-- 
2.29.2




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