Re: [PATCH v10 6/8] KVM: PPC: Support reset of secure guest

Paul Mackerras
2019-11-14T05:07:38Z

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 08:59:08PM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 04:34:34PM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 09:47:58AM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > @@ -5442,6 +5471,64 @@ static int kvmhv_store_to_eaddr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, ulong *eaddr, void *ptr,
> > > return rc;
> > > }
> > >
> > > +/*
> > > + * IOCTL handler to turn off secure mode of guest
> > > + *
> > > + * - Issue ucall to terminate the guest on the UV side
> > > + * - Unpin the VPA pages (Enables these pages to be migrated back
> > > + * when VM becomes secure again)
> > > + * - Recreate partition table as the guest is transitioning back to
> > > + * normal mode
> > > + * - Release all device pages
> > > + */
> > > +static int kvmhv_svm_off(struct kvm *kvm)
> > > +{
> > > + struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu;
> > > + int srcu_idx;
> > > + int ret = 0;
> > > + int i;
> > > +
> > > + if (!(kvm->arch.secure_guest & KVMPPC_SECURE_INIT_START))
> > > + return ret;
> > > +
> >
> > A further comment on this code: it should check that no vcpus are
> > running and fail if any are running, and it should prevent any vcpus
> > from running until the function is finished, using code like that in
> > kvmhv_configure_mmu(). That is, it should do something like this:
> >
> > mutex_lock(&kvm->arch.mmu_setup_lock);
> > mmu_was_ready = kvm->arch.mmu_ready;
> > if (kvm->arch.mmu_ready) {
> > kvm->arch.mmu_ready = 0;
> > /* order mmu_ready vs. vcpus_running */
> > smp_mb();
> > if (atomic_read(&kvm->arch.vcpus_running)) {
> > kvm->arch.mmu_ready = 1;
> > ret = -EBUSY;
> > goto out_unlock;
> > }
> > }
> >
> > and then after clearing kvm->arch.secure_guest below:
> >
> > > + srcu_idx = srcu_read_lock(&kvm->srcu);
> > > + for (i = 0; i < KVM_ADDRESS_SPACE_NUM; i++) {
> > > + struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot;
> > > + struct kvm_memslots *slots = __kvm_memslots(kvm, i);
> > > +
> > > + if (!slots)
> > > + continue;
> > > +
> > > + kvm_for_each_memslot(memslot, slots) {
> > > + kvmppc_uvmem_drop_pages(memslot, kvm, true);
> > > + uv_unregister_mem_slot(kvm->arch.lpid, memslot->id);
> > > + }
> > > + }
> > > + srcu_read_unlock(&kvm->srcu, srcu_idx);
> > > +
> > > + ret = uv_svm_terminate(kvm->arch.lpid);
> > > + if (ret != U_SUCCESS) {
> > > + ret = -EINVAL;
> > > + goto out;
> > > + }
> > > +
> > > + kvm_for_each_vcpu(i, vcpu, kvm) {
> > > + spin_lock(&vcpu->arch.vpa_update_lock);
> > > + unpin_vpa_reset(kvm, &vcpu->arch.dtl);
> > > + unpin_vpa_reset(kvm, &vcpu->arch.slb_shadow);
> > > + unpin_vpa_reset(kvm, &vcpu->arch.vpa);
> > > + spin_unlock(&vcpu->arch.vpa_update_lock);
> > > + }
> > > +
> > > + ret = kvmppc_reinit_partition_table(kvm);
> > > + if (ret)
> > > + goto out;
> > > +
> > > + kvm->arch.secure_guest = 0;
> >
> > you need to do:
> >
> > kvm->arch.mmu_ready = mmu_was_ready;
> > out_unlock:
> > mutex_unlock(&kvm->arch.mmu_setup_lock);
> >
> > > +out:
> > > + return ret;
> > > +}
> > > +
> >
> > With that extra check in place, it should be safe to unpin the vpas if
> > there is a good reason to do so. ("Userspace has some bug that we
> > haven't found" isn't a good reason to do so.)
>
> QEMU indeed does set_one_reg to reset the VPAs but that only marks
> the VPA update as pending. The actual unpinning happens when vcpu
> gets to run after reset at which time the VPAs are updated after
> any unpinning (if required)
>
> When secure guest reboots, vpu 0 gets to run and does unpin its
> VPA pages and then proceeds with switching to secure. Here UV
> tries to page-in all the guest pages, including the still pinned
> VPA pages corresponding to other vcpus which haven't had a chance
> to run till now. They are all still pinned and hence page-in fails.
>
> To prevent this, we have to explicitly unpin the VPA pages during
> this svm off ioctl. This will ensure that SMP secure guest is able
> to reboot correctly.

OK, that makes sense. Please put a comment in the code explaining
this briefly.

> So I will incorporate the code chunk you have shown above to fail
> if any vcpu is running and prevent any vcpu from running when
> we unpin VPAs from this ioctl.

Sounds good.

Paul.