To maintain cache coherency on ARM, we may need a mechanism to flush
the data cache.
This patch implements KVM_FLUSH_DCACHE_GPA vm ioctl which flushes the
data cache at a specified address range. The input argument is a
struct kvm_mem_addr containing the guest physical address and the
length.
Signed-off-by: Jérémy Fanguède <j.fanguede@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm/kvm/arm.c | 13 +++++++++++++
include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 6 ++++++
2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
index d9631ec..8638fd2 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
@@ -886,6 +886,19 @@ long kvm_arch_vm_ioctl(struct file *filp,
return 0;
}
+ case KVM_FLUSH_DCACHE_GPA: {
+ struct kvm_mem_addr mem_addr;
+ hva_t hva;
+ gpa_t gpa;
+
+ if (copy_from_user(&mem_addr, argp, sizeof(mem_addr)))
+ return -EFAULT;
+
+ gpa = mem_addr.addr;
+ hva = gfn_to_hva(kvm, gpa_to_gfn(gpa)) | (gpa & ~PAGE_MASK);
+ kvm_flush_dcache_to_poc((void *)hva, mem_addr.len);
+ return 0;
+ }
default:
return -EINVAL;
}
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
index 4b60056..3bc599e 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
@@ -978,6 +978,11 @@ struct kvm_arm_device_addr {
__u64 addr;
};
+struct kvm_mem_addr {
+ __u64 addr;
+ __u32 len;
+};
+
/*
* Device control API, available with KVM_CAP_DEVICE_CTRL
*/
@@ -1199,6 +1204,7 @@ struct kvm_s390_ucas_mapping {
/* Available with KVM_CAP_S390_IRQ_STATE */
#define KVM_S390_SET_IRQ_STATE _IOW(KVMIO, 0xb5, struct kvm_s390_irq_state)
#define KVM_S390_GET_IRQ_STATE _IOW(KVMIO, 0xb6, struct kvm_s390_irq_state)
+#define KVM_FLUSH_DCACHE_GPA _IOW(KVMIO, 0xb7, struct kvm_mem_addr)
#define KVM_DEV_ASSIGN_ENABLE_IOMMU (1 << 0)
#define KVM_DEV_ASSIGN_PCI_2_3 (1 << 1)
--
1.9.1
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