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Message-ID: <20250709144939.GA2753450@e124191.cambridge.arm.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2025 15:49:39 +0100
From: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@....com>
To: Steven Price <steven.price@....com>
Cc: kvm@...r.kernel.org, kvmarm@...ts.linux.dev,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
	James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
	Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@...ux.dev>,
	Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
	Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@...wei.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@....com>,
	Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@....com>,
	Fuad Tabba <tabba@...gle.com>, linux-coco@...ts.linux.dev,
	Ganapatrao Kulkarni <gankulkarni@...amperecomputing.com>,
	Gavin Shan <gshan@...hat.com>,
	Shanker Donthineni <sdonthineni@...dia.com>,
	Alper Gun <alpergun@...gle.com>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@...nel.org>,
	Emi Kisanuki <fj0570is@...itsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 14/43] KVM: arm64: Support timers in realm RECs

Hi Steven,

On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 11:48:11AM +0100, Steven Price wrote:
> The RMM keeps track of the timer while the realm REC is running, but on
> exit to the normal world KVM is responsible for handling the timers.
> 
> The RMM doesn't provide a mechanism to set the counter offset, so don't
> expose KVM_CAP_COUNTER_OFFSET for a realm VM.
> 
> A later patch adds the support for propagating the timer values from the
> exit data structure and calling kvm_realm_timers_update().
> 
> Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price@....com>
> ---
> Changes since v7:
>  * Hide KVM_CAP_COUNTER_OFFSET for realm guests.
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kvm/arch_timer.c  | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c         |  2 +-
>  include/kvm/arm_arch_timer.h |  2 ++
>  3 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/arch_timer.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/arch_timer.c
> index fdbc8beec930..7f8705d6fdf5 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/arch_timer.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/arch_timer.c
> @@ -148,6 +148,13 @@ static void timer_set_cval(struct arch_timer_context *ctxt, u64 cval)
>  
>  static void timer_set_offset(struct arch_timer_context *ctxt, u64 offset)
>  {
> +	struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu = ctxt->vcpu;
> +
> +	if (kvm_is_realm(vcpu->kvm)) {
> +		WARN_ON(offset);
> +		return;
> +	}
> +
>  	if (!ctxt->offset.vm_offset) {
>  		WARN(offset, "timer %ld\n", arch_timer_ctx_index(ctxt));
>  		return;
> @@ -462,6 +469,21 @@ static void kvm_timer_update_irq(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool new_level,
>  			    timer_ctx);
>  }
>  
> +void kvm_realm_timers_update(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> +{
> +	struct arch_timer_cpu *arch_timer = &vcpu->arch.timer_cpu;
> +	int i;
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < NR_KVM_EL0_TIMERS; i++) {
> +		struct arch_timer_context *timer = &arch_timer->timers[i];
> +		bool status = timer_get_ctl(timer) & ARCH_TIMER_CTRL_IT_STAT;
> +		bool level = kvm_timer_irq_can_fire(timer) && status;
> +
> +		if (level != timer->irq.level)
> +			kvm_timer_update_irq(vcpu, level, timer);
> +	}
> +}
> +
>  /* Only called for a fully emulated timer */
>  static void timer_emulate(struct arch_timer_context *ctx)
>  {
> @@ -870,6 +892,8 @@ void kvm_timer_vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  	if (unlikely(!timer->enabled))
>  		return;
>  
> +	kvm_timer_unblocking(vcpu);
> +
>  	get_timer_map(vcpu, &map);
>  
>  	if (static_branch_likely(&has_gic_active_state)) {
> @@ -883,8 +907,6 @@ void kvm_timer_vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  		kvm_timer_vcpu_load_nogic(vcpu);
>  	}
>  
> -	kvm_timer_unblocking(vcpu);
> -

The change here to move kvm_timer_unblocking() looks unnecessary, as the change
to add an early return in kvm_timer_enable() causes timer->enable to never be
set to 1.  Since it is never set, kvm_timer_vcpu_load() will return early
before this call to kvm_timer_unblocking().

Thanks,
Joey

>  	timer_restore_state(map.direct_vtimer);
>  	if (map.direct_ptimer)
>  		timer_restore_state(map.direct_ptimer);
> @@ -1065,7 +1087,9 @@ static void timer_context_init(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int timerid)
>  
>  	ctxt->vcpu = vcpu;
>  
> -	if (timerid == TIMER_VTIMER)
> +	if (kvm_is_realm(vcpu->kvm))
> +		ctxt->offset.vm_offset = NULL;
> +	else if (timerid == TIMER_VTIMER)
>  		ctxt->offset.vm_offset = &kvm->arch.timer_data.voffset;
>  	else
>  		ctxt->offset.vm_offset = &kvm->arch.timer_data.poffset;
> @@ -1087,13 +1111,19 @@ static void timer_context_init(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int timerid)
>  void kvm_timer_vcpu_init(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  {
>  	struct arch_timer_cpu *timer = vcpu_timer(vcpu);
> +	u64 cntvoff;
>  
>  	for (int i = 0; i < NR_KVM_TIMERS; i++)
>  		timer_context_init(vcpu, i);
>  
> +	if (kvm_is_realm(vcpu->kvm))
> +		cntvoff = 0;
> +	else
> +		cntvoff = kvm_phys_timer_read();
> +
>  	/* Synchronize offsets across timers of a VM if not already provided */
>  	if (!test_bit(KVM_ARCH_FLAG_VM_COUNTER_OFFSET, &vcpu->kvm->arch.flags)) {
> -		timer_set_offset(vcpu_vtimer(vcpu), kvm_phys_timer_read());
> +		timer_set_offset(vcpu_vtimer(vcpu), cntvoff);
>  		timer_set_offset(vcpu_ptimer(vcpu), 0);
>  	}
>  
> @@ -1633,6 +1663,13 @@ int kvm_timer_enable(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  	}
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * We don't use mapped IRQs for Realms because the RMI doesn't allow
> +	 * us setting the LR.HW bit in the VGIC.
> +	 */
> +	if (vcpu_is_rec(vcpu))
> +		return 0;
> +
>  	get_timer_map(vcpu, &map);
>  
>  	ret = kvm_vgic_map_phys_irq(vcpu,
> @@ -1764,6 +1801,9 @@ int kvm_vm_ioctl_set_counter_offset(struct kvm *kvm,
>  	if (offset->reserved)
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
> +	if (kvm_is_realm(kvm))
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
>  	mutex_lock(&kvm->lock);
>  
>  	if (!kvm_trylock_all_vcpus(kvm)) {
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
> index 0cdcc2ca4a88..6a5c9be4af2d 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
> @@ -350,10 +350,10 @@ int kvm_vm_ioctl_check_extension(struct kvm *kvm, long ext)
>  	case KVM_CAP_PTP_KVM:
>  	case KVM_CAP_ARM_SYSTEM_SUSPEND:
>  	case KVM_CAP_IRQFD_RESAMPLE:
> -	case KVM_CAP_COUNTER_OFFSET:
>  	case KVM_CAP_ARM_WRITABLE_IMP_ID_REGS:
>  		r = 1;
>  		break;
> +	case KVM_CAP_COUNTER_OFFSET:
>  	case KVM_CAP_SET_GUEST_DEBUG:
>  		r = !kvm_is_realm(kvm);
>  		break;
> diff --git a/include/kvm/arm_arch_timer.h b/include/kvm/arm_arch_timer.h
> index 681cf0c8b9df..f64e317c091b 100644
> --- a/include/kvm/arm_arch_timer.h
> +++ b/include/kvm/arm_arch_timer.h
> @@ -113,6 +113,8 @@ int kvm_arm_timer_set_attr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_device_attr *attr);
>  int kvm_arm_timer_get_attr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_device_attr *attr);
>  int kvm_arm_timer_has_attr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_device_attr *attr);
>  
> +void kvm_realm_timers_update(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
> +
>  u64 kvm_phys_timer_read(void);
>  
>  void kvm_timer_vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
> -- 
> 2.43.0
> 

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