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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 11/17] kvm: arm64: Configure VTCR per VM
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On 03/04/18 15:58, James Morse wrote:
> Hi Suzuki,
>
> On 27/03/18 14:15, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
>> We set VTCR_EL2 very early during the stage2 init and don't
>> touch it ever. This is fine as we had a fixed IPA size. This
>> patch changes the behavior to set the VTCR for a given VM,
>> depending on its stage2 table. The common configuration for
>> VTCR is still performed during the early init as we have to
>> retain the hardware access flag update bits (VTCR_EL2_HA)
>> per CPU (as they are only set for the CPUs which are capabile).
>
> (Nit: capable)
>

Thanks for spotting, will fix it.

>
>> The bits defining the number of levels in the page table (SL0)
>> and and the size of the Input address to the translation (T0SZ)
>> are programmed for each VM upon entry to the guest.
>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c
>> index 870f4b1..5ccd3ae 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c
>> @@ -164,6 +164,12 @@ static void __hyp_text __deactivate_traps(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>> static void __hyp_text __activate_vm(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>> {
>> struct kvm *kvm = kern_hyp_va(vcpu->kvm);
>> + u64 vtcr = read_sysreg(vtcr_el2);
>> +
>> + vtcr &= ~VTCR_EL2_PRIVATE_MASK;
>> + vtcr |= VTCR_EL2_SL0(kvm_stage2_levels(kvm)) |
>> + VTCR_EL2_T0SZ(kvm_phys_shift(kvm));
>> + write_sysreg(vtcr, vtcr_el2);
>> write_sysreg(kvm->arch.vttbr, vttbr_el2);
>> }
>
> Do we need to set this register for tlb maintenance too?
> e.g. tlbi for a 3-level-stage2 vm when a 2-level-stage2 vm's vtcr is loaded...
>
> (The ARM-ARM has 'Any of the bits of VTCR_EL2 are permitted to be cached in a TLB'.)

You're right. We need to set the VTCR for the tlb operations. I think
we can do this by hooking it to the __tlb_switch_to_guest() routine.
Will address it in the next version.

Cheers
Suzuki

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