linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 6/8] KVM: arm64: Add hypervisor overflow stack

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Date:   Tue, 29 Mar 2022 09:51:27 +0100
From:   Fuad Tabba <tabba@...gle.com>
To:     Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@...gle.com>
Cc:     will@...nel.org, maz@...nel.org, qperret@...gle.com,
        surenb@...gle.com, kernel-team@...roid.com,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@....com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Peter Collingbourne <pcc@...gle.com>,
        "Madhavan T. Venkataraman" <madvenka@...ux.microsoft.com>,
        Andrew Walbran <qwandor@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Scull <ascull@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Jones <drjones@...hat.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 6/8] KVM: arm64: Add hypervisor overflow stack

Hi Kalesh,

On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 8:05 PM Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> Allocate and switch to 16-byte aligned secondary stack on overflow. This
> provides us stack space to better handle overflows; and is used in
> a subsequent patch to dump the hypervisor stacktrace. The overflow stack
> is only allocated if CONFIG_NVHE_EL2_DEBUG is enabled, as hypervisor
> stacktraces is a debug feature dependent on CONFIG_NVHE_EL2_DEBUG.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@...gle.com>

Tested-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@...gle.com>
Reviewed-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@...gle.com>

Thanks,
/fuad



> ---
>
> Changes in v4:
>   - Update comment to clarify resetting the SP to the top of the stack
>     only happens if CONFIG_NVHE_EL2_DEBUG is disabled, per Fuad
>
>
>  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/host.S   | 11 ++++++++---
>  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/switch.c |  5 +++++
>  2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/host.S b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/host.S
> index be6d844279b1..a0c4b4f1549f 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/host.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/host.S
> @@ -179,13 +179,18 @@ SYM_FUNC_END(__host_hvc)
>         b       hyp_panic
>
>  .L__hyp_sp_overflow\@:
> +#ifdef CONFIG_NVHE_EL2_DEBUG
> +       /* Switch to the overflow stack */
> +       adr_this_cpu sp, hyp_overflow_stack + PAGE_SIZE, x0
> +#else
>         /*
> -        * Reset SP to the top of the stack, to allow handling the hyp_panic.
> -        * This corrupts the stack but is ok, since we won't be attempting
> -        * any unwinding here.
> +        * If !CONFIG_NVHE_EL2_DEBUG, reset SP to the top of the stack, to
> +        * allow handling the hyp_panic. This corrupts the stack but is ok,
> +        * since we won't be attempting any unwinding here.
>          */
>         ldr_this_cpu    x0, kvm_init_params + NVHE_INIT_STACK_HYP_VA, x1
>         mov     sp, x0
> +#endif
>
>         bl      hyp_panic_bad_stack
>         ASM_BUG()
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/switch.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/switch.c
> index 703a5d3f611b..efc20273a352 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/switch.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/switch.c
> @@ -34,6 +34,11 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kvm_host_data, kvm_host_data);
>  DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kvm_cpu_context, kvm_hyp_ctxt);
>  DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, kvm_hyp_vector);
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_NVHE_EL2_DEBUG
> +DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long [PAGE_SIZE/sizeof(long)], hyp_overflow_stack)
> +       __aligned(16);
> +#endif
> +
>  static void __activate_traps(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  {
>         u64 val;
> --
> 2.35.1.723.g4982287a31-goog
>