linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] arm64: kvm: Introduce MTE VCPU feature

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Message-ID: <4212c864-805a-cef4-7138-0f8995cadf5e@arm.com>
Date:   Wed, 25 Nov 2020 18:13:02 +0000
From:   James Morse <james.morse@....com>
To:     Steven Price <steven.price@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:     Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        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

Hi Steven, Catalin,

On 18/11/2020 16:01, Steven Price wrote:
> On 17/11/2020 16:07, Catalin Marinas wrote:
>> 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! ;)

A recent discovery: Copy on write will cause kvm_set_spte_handler() to fixup the mapping
(instead of just invalidating it) on the assumption the guest is going to read whatever
was written.

Its possible user_mem_abort() will go and stomp on that mapping a second time, but if the
VMM triggers this at stage1, you won't have a vcpu for the update.


Thanks,

James