RE: [PATCH 7/8] KVM: arm64: Workaround firmware wrongly advertising GICv2-on-v3 compatibility

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Zyngier [mailto:maz@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 05 March 2021 18:53
> To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@xxxxxxx>; Andre Przywara
> <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx>; Andrew Scull <ascull@xxxxxxxxxx>; Catalin
> Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>; Christoffer Dall
> <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxx>; Howard Zhang <Howard.Zhang@xxxxxxx>; Jia
> He <justin.he@xxxxxxx>; Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>; Quentin
> Perret <qperret@xxxxxxxxxx>; Shameerali Kolothum Thodi
> <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@xxxxxxxxxx>; Suzuki K Poulose
> <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>; Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>; James Morse
> <james.morse@xxxxxxx>; Julien Thierry <julien.thierry.kdev@xxxxxxxxx>;
> kernel-team@xxxxxxxxxxx; linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> kvmarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [PATCH 7/8] KVM: arm64: Workaround firmware wrongly advertising
> GICv2-on-v3 compatibility
> 
> It looks like we have broken firmware out there that wrongly advertises
> a GICv2 compatibility interface, despite the CPUs not being able to deal
> with it.
> 
> To work around this, check that the CPU initialising KVM is actually able
> to switch to MMIO instead of system registers, and use that as a
> precondition to enable GICv2 compatibility in KVM.
> 
> Note that the detection happens on a single CPU. If the firmware is
> lying *and* that the CPUs are asymetric, all hope is lost anyway.
> 
> Reported-by: Shameerali Kolothum Thodi
> <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Shameer Kolothum <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>

Is it possible to add stable tag for this? Looks like we do have systems out there
and reports issues.

Thanks,
Shameer

> ---
>  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vgic-v3-sr.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v3.c   |  8 ++++++--
>  2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vgic-v3-sr.c
> b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vgic-v3-sr.c
> index 005daa0c9dd7..ee3682b9873c 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vgic-v3-sr.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vgic-v3-sr.c
> @@ -408,11 +408,42 @@ void __vgic_v3_init_lrs(void)
>  /*
>   * Return the GIC CPU configuration:
>   * - [31:0]  ICH_VTR_EL2
> - * - [63:32] RES0
> + * - [62:32] RES0
> + * - [63]    MMIO (GICv2) capable
>   */
>  u64 __vgic_v3_get_gic_config(void)
>  {
> -	return read_gicreg(ICH_VTR_EL2);
> +	u64 val, sre = read_gicreg(ICC_SRE_EL1);
> +	unsigned long flags = 0;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * To check whether we have a MMIO-based (GICv2 compatible)
> +	 * CPU interface, we need to disable the system register
> +	 * view. To do that safely, we have to prevent any interrupt
> +	 * from firing (which would be deadly).
> +	 *
> +	 * Note that this only makes sense on VHE, as interrupts are
> +	 * already masked for nVHE as part of the exception entry to
> +	 * EL2.
> +	 */
> +	if (has_vhe())
> +		flags = local_daif_save();
> +
> +	write_gicreg(0, ICC_SRE_EL1);
> +	isb();
> +
> +	val = read_gicreg(ICC_SRE_EL1);
> +
> +	write_gicreg(sre, ICC_SRE_EL1);
> +	isb();
> +
> +	if (has_vhe())
> +		local_daif_restore(flags);
> +
> +	val  = (val & ICC_SRE_EL1_SRE) ? 0 : (1ULL << 63);
> +	val |= read_gicreg(ICH_VTR_EL2);
> +
> +	return val;
>  }
> 
>  u64 __vgic_v3_read_vmcr(void)
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v3.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v3.c
> index c3e6c3fd333b..6f530925a231 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v3.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v3.c
> @@ -575,8 +575,10 @@ early_param("kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable",
> early_gicv4_enable);
>  int vgic_v3_probe(const struct gic_kvm_info *info)
>  {
>  	u64 ich_vtr_el2 = kvm_call_hyp_ret(__vgic_v3_get_gic_config);
> +	bool has_v2;
>  	int ret;
> 
> +	has_v2 = ich_vtr_el2 >> 63;
>  	ich_vtr_el2 = (u32)ich_vtr_el2;
> 
>  	/*
> @@ -596,13 +598,15 @@ int vgic_v3_probe(const struct gic_kvm_info *info)
>  			 gicv4_enable ? "en" : "dis");
>  	}
> 
> +	kvm_vgic_global_state.vcpu_base = 0;
> +
>  	if (!info->vcpu.start) {
>  		kvm_info("GICv3: no GICV resource entry\n");
> -		kvm_vgic_global_state.vcpu_base = 0;
> +	} else if (!has_v2) {
> +		pr_warn(FW_BUG "CPU interface incapable of MMIO access\n");
>  	} else if (!PAGE_ALIGNED(info->vcpu.start)) {
>  		pr_warn("GICV physical address 0x%llx not page aligned\n",
>  			(unsigned long long)info->vcpu.start);
> -		kvm_vgic_global_state.vcpu_base = 0;
>  	} else {
>  		kvm_vgic_global_state.vcpu_base = info->vcpu.start;
>  		kvm_vgic_global_state.can_emulate_gicv2 = true;
> --
> 2.29.2




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