linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 29/38] KVM: arm64: Use page-table to track page ownership

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Date:   Mon, 22 Mar 2021 11:27:41 +0000
From:   Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
To:     Quentin Perret <qperret@...gle.com>
Cc:     catalin.marinas@....com, maz@...nel.org, james.morse@....com,
        julien.thierry.kdev@...il.com, suzuki.poulose@....com,
        android-kvm@...gle.com, seanjc@...gle.com, mate.toth-pal@....com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, robh+dt@...nel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, kernel-team@...roid.com,
        kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu, tabba@...gle.com, ardb@...nel.org,
        mark.rutland@....com, dbrazdil@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 29/38] KVM: arm64: Use page-table to track page
 ownership

On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 10:01:37AM +0000, Quentin Perret wrote:
> As the host stage 2 will be identity mapped, all the .hyp memory regions
> and/or memory pages donated to protected guestis will have to marked
> invalid in the host stage 2 page-table. At the same time, the hypervisor
> will need a way to track the ownership of each physical page to ensure
> memory sharing or donation between entities (host, guests, hypervisor) is
> legal.
> 
> In order to enable this tracking at EL2, let's use the host stage 2
> page-table itself. The idea is to use the top bits of invalid mappings
> to store the unique identifier of the page owner. The page-table owner
> (the host) gets identifier 0 such that, at boot time, it owns the entire
> IPA space as the pgd starts zeroed.
> 
> Provide kvm_pgtable_stage2_set_owner() which allows to modify the
> ownership of pages in the host stage 2. It re-uses most of the map()
> logic, but ends up creating invalid mappings instead. This impacts
> how we do refcount as we now need to count invalid mappings when they
> are used for ownership tracking.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@...gle.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h |  20 +++++
>  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c         | 126 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  2 files changed, 122 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>

Will