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Message-ID: <f34b3d16-8bc7-af9d-c0e0-fb114d2465aa@arm.com>
Date:   Wed, 18 Nov 2020 16:01:20 +0000
From:   Steven Price <steven.price@....com>
To:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:     Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Julien Thierry <julien.thierry.kdev@...il.com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, qemu-devel@...gnu.org,
        Juan Quintela <quintela@...hat.com>,
        "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@...hat.com>,
        Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@...aro.org>,
        Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@...aro.org>,
        Haibo Xu <Haibo.Xu@....com>, Andrew Jones <drjones@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] arm64: kvm: Introduce MTE VCPU feature

On 17/11/2020 16:07, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> Hi Steven,
> 
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 03:57:27PM +0000, Steven Price wrote:
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
>> index 19aacc7d64de..38fe25310ca1 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
>> @@ -862,6 +862,26 @@ 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);
>> +
>> +	/*
>> +	 * The otherwise redundant test for system_supports_mte() allows the
>> +	 * code to be compiled out when CONFIG_ARM64_MTE is not present.
>> +	 */
>> +	if (system_supports_mte() && kvm->arch.mte_enabled && pfn_valid(pfn)) {
>> +		/*
>> +		 * VM will be able to see the page's tags, so we must ensure
>> +		 * they have been initialised.
>> +		 */
>> +		struct page *page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
>> +		long i, nr_pages = compound_nr(page);
>> +
>> +		/* if PG_mte_tagged is set, tags have already been initialised */
>> +		for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++, page++) {
>> +			if (!test_and_set_bit(PG_mte_tagged, &page->flags))
>> +				mte_clear_page_tags(page_address(page));
>> +		}
>> +	}
> 
> If this page was swapped out and mapped back in, where does the
> restoring from swap happen?

Restoring from swap happens above this in the call to gfn_to_pfn_prot()

> I may have asked in the past, is user_mem_abort() the only path for
> mapping Normal pages into stage 2?
> 

That is my understanding (and yes you asked before) and no one has 
corrected me! ;)

Steve

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