On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 10:17:45PM +0000, Oliver Upton wrote:
> The use of RCU is necessary to safely change the stage-2 page tables in
> parallel. Acquire and release the RCU read lock when traversing the page
> tables.
>
> Use the _raw() flavor of rcu_dereference when changes to the page tables
> are otherwise protected from parallel software walkers (e.g. holding the
> write lock).
>
> Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c | 10 ++++++-
> 2 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h
> index e70cf57b719e..d1859e8550df 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h
> @@ -37,6 +37,13 @@ static inline u64 kvm_get_parange(u64 mmfr0)
>
> typedef u64 kvm_pte_t;
>
> +/*
> + * RCU cannot be used in a non-kernel context such as the hyp. As such, page
> + * table walkers used in hyp do not call into RCU and instead use other
> + * synchronization mechanisms (such as a spinlock).
> + */
> +#if defined(__KVM_NVHE_HYPERVISOR__) || defined(__KVM_VHE_HYPERVISOR__)
> +
> typedef kvm_pte_t *kvm_pteref_t;
>
> static inline kvm_pte_t *kvm_dereference_pteref(kvm_pteref_t pteref, bool shared)
> @@ -44,6 +51,40 @@ static inline kvm_pte_t *kvm_dereference_pteref(kvm_pteref_t pteref, bool shared
> return pteref;
> }
>
> +static inline void kvm_pgtable_walk_begin(void) {}
> +static inline void kvm_pgtable_walk_end(void) {}
> +
> +static inline bool kvm_pgtable_walk_lock_held(void)
> +{
> + return true;
> +}
> +
> +#else
> +
> +typedef kvm_pte_t __rcu *kvm_pteref_t;
> +
> +static inline kvm_pte_t *kvm_dereference_pteref(kvm_pteref_t pteref, bool shared)
> +{
> + return rcu_dereference_check(pteref, shared);
I accidentally squashed the fix for !shared into 9/15, not this patch.
Fix ready for v4.
--
Thanks,
Oliver
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