On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 03:57:55PM +0100, James Morse wrote:
> Non-VHE systems take an exception to EL2 in order to world-switch into the
> guest. When returning from the guest KVM implicitly restores the DAIF
> flags when it returns to the kernel at EL1.
>
> With VHE none of this exception-level jumping happens, so KVMs
> world-switch code is exposed to the host kernel's DAIF values, and KVM
> spills the guest-exit DAIF values back into the host kernel.
> On entry to a guest we have Debug and SError exceptions unmasked, KVM
> has switched VBAR but isn't prepared to handle these. On guest exit
> Debug exceptions are left disabled once we return to the host and will
> stay this way until we enter user space.
>
> Add a helper to mask/unmask DAIF around VHE guests. The unmask can only
> happen after the hosts VBAR value has been synchronised by the isb in
> __vhe_hyp_call (via kvm_call_hyp()). Masking could be as late as
> setting KVMs VBAR value, but is kept here for symmetry.
>
> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Give me a kick if you want this reworked as a fix (which will then
> conflict with this series), or a backportable version.
I don't know of any real-world issues where some more graceful handling
of SErrors would make sense on older kernels, so I'm fine with just
merging this together with this series.
Thanks,
-Christoffer
>
> arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 10 ++++++++++
> virt/kvm/arm/arm.c | 4 ++++
> 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> index e923b58606e2..a0e2f7962401 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
> #include <linux/types.h>
> #include <linux/kvm_types.h>
> #include <asm/cpufeature.h>
> +#include <asm/daifflags.h>
> #include <asm/kvm.h>
> #include <asm/kvm_asm.h>
> #include <asm/kvm_mmio.h>
> @@ -384,4 +385,13 @@ static inline void __cpu_init_stage2(void)
> "PARange is %d bits, unsupported configuration!", parange);
> }
>
> +static inline void kvm_arm_vhe_guest_enter(void)
> +{
> + local_daif_mask();
> +}
> +
> +static inline void kvm_arm_vhe_guest_exit(void)
> +{
> + local_daif_restore(DAIF_PROCCTX_NOIRQ);
> +}
> #endif /* __ARM64_KVM_HOST_H__ */
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c b/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c
> index b9f68e4add71..665529924b34 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c
> @@ -698,9 +698,13 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run)
> */
> trace_kvm_entry(*vcpu_pc(vcpu));
> guest_enter_irqoff();
> + if (has_vhe())
> + kvm_arm_vhe_guest_enter();
>
> ret = kvm_call_hyp(__kvm_vcpu_run, vcpu);
>
> + if (has_vhe())
> + kvm_arm_vhe_guest_exit();
> vcpu->mode = OUTSIDE_GUEST_MODE;
> vcpu->stat.exits++;
> /*
> --
> 2.13.3
>
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