[PATCH v4 41/66] KVM: arm64: nv: Trap and emulate TLBI instructions from virtual EL2

Marc Zyngier maz at kernel.org
Mon Nov 29 10:12:40 PST 2021


Hi Chase,

Yes, it took that long for me to get back to the NV series. Sorry
about that.

On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 17:40:03 +0100,
Chase Conklin <chase.conklin at arm.com> wrote:

> I'm noticing a hang while an L2 is booting. From what I can tell, the
> L0 is issuing TLBIs to the wrong VMID, so the L2 is getting stuck
> taking the same abort repeatedly.
> 
> It seems that kvm_unmap_stage2_range doesn't perform the invalidations
> using the mmu passed to it here. Instead, it uses the passed mmu to
> get back the kvm before passing that to stage2_apply_range which gets
> its mmu from kvm->arch.mmu. This has the effect of applying
> invalidations intended for the nested stage-2 of the L2 onto the
> stage-2 for the L1.
> 
> It also turns out that for the L2, the mmu != mmu->pgt->mmu. This is
> because pgt->mmu is always set to &kvm->arch.mmu by
> kvm_pgtable_stage2_init_flags. This too will cause the VMID for the
> TLBI to be incorrect because the stage2_unmap_walker gets its mmu from
> the pgt passed to it.

Yup, and Ganapatrao noticed the same thing[1] (I obviously botched the
conversion to the new pgtable code). I *think* this is now fixed in my
nv-5.16 branch, but I'd really appreciate if you could have a look.

Bonus points if you have access to actual HW (even in emulation), as
doing this on the model is majorly frustrating.

Thanks,

	M.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211122095803.28943-1-gankulkarni@os.amperecomputing.com

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