[PATCH v3 04/17] arm64: Add KVM_HVHE capability and has_hvhe() predicate

Shaoqin Huang shahuang at redhat.com
Wed Jun 14 00:35:13 PDT 2023


Hi Marc,

Should we have a document about the hVHE? Because it's a sw feature, 
there is no spec about it. And later people may need to read the code 
itself to understand what is hVHE.

On 6/10/23 00:21, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Expose a capability keying the hVHE feature as well as a new
> predicate testing it. Nothing is so far using it, and nothing
> is enabling it yet.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
Besides that, the code itself LGTM.

Reviewed-by: Shaoqin Huang <shahuang at redhat.com>
> ---
>   arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h |  1 +
>   arch/arm64/include/asm/virt.h       |  8 ++++++++
>   arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c      | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>   arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps            |  1 +
>   4 files changed, 29 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
> index bc1009890180..3d4b547ae312 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
> @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
>   #define cpu_feature(x)		KERNEL_HWCAP_ ## x
>   
>   #define ARM64_SW_FEATURE_OVERRIDE_NOKASLR	0
> +#define ARM64_SW_FEATURE_OVERRIDE_HVHE		4
>   
>   #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
>   
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/virt.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/virt.h
> index 21e94068804d..5227db7640c8 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/virt.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/virt.h
> @@ -142,6 +142,14 @@ static __always_inline bool is_protected_kvm_enabled(void)
>   		return cpus_have_final_cap(ARM64_KVM_PROTECTED_MODE);
>   }
>   
> +static __always_inline bool has_hvhe(void)
> +{
> +	if (is_vhe_hyp_code())
> +		return false;
> +
> +	return cpus_have_final_cap(ARM64_KVM_HVHE);
> +}
> +
>   static inline bool is_hyp_nvhe(void)
>   {
>   	return is_hyp_mode_available() && !is_kernel_in_hyp_mode();
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
> index 2d2b7bb5fa0c..c743b1a5ae31 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
> @@ -1998,6 +1998,19 @@ static bool has_nested_virt_support(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *cap,
>   	return true;
>   }
>   
> +static bool hvhe_possible(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry,
> +			  int __unused)
> +{
> +	u64 val;
> +
> +	val = read_sysreg(id_aa64mmfr1_el1);
> +	if (!cpuid_feature_extract_unsigned_field(val, ID_AA64MMFR1_EL1_VH_SHIFT))
> +		return false;
> +
> +	val = arm64_sw_feature_override.val & arm64_sw_feature_override.mask;
> +	return cpuid_feature_extract_unsigned_field(val, ARM64_SW_FEATURE_OVERRIDE_HVHE);
> +}
> +
>   #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_PAN
>   static void cpu_enable_pan(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *__unused)
>   {
> @@ -2643,6 +2656,12 @@ static const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities arm64_features[] = {
>   		.cpu_enable = cpu_enable_dit,
>   		ARM64_CPUID_FIELDS(ID_AA64PFR0_EL1, DIT, IMP)
>   	},
> +	{
> +		.desc = "VHE for hypervisor only",
> +		.capability = ARM64_KVM_HVHE,
> +		.type = ARM64_CPUCAP_SYSTEM_FEATURE,
> +		.matches = hvhe_possible,
> +	},
>   	{},
>   };
>   
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps b/arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps
> index 40ba95472594..3c23a55d7c2f 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps
> +++ b/arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps
> @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ HAS_TLB_RANGE
>   HAS_VIRT_HOST_EXTN
>   HAS_WFXT
>   HW_DBM
> +KVM_HVHE
>   KVM_PROTECTED_MODE
>   MISMATCHED_CACHE_TYPE
>   MTE

-- 
Shaoqin




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