Re: [PATCH 00/59] KVM: arm64: ARMv8.3 Nested Virtualization support

Andrew Jones
2019-08-09T13:00:25Z

On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 01:00:02PM +0100, Alexandru Elisei wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> On 8/9/19 12:44 PM, Andrew Jones wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 11:01:51AM +0100, Alexandru Elisei wrote:
> >> On 8/2/19 11:11 AM, Alexandru Elisei wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> On 6/21/19 10:37 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> >>>> I've taken over the maintenance of this series originally written by
> >>>> Jintack and Christoffer. Since then, the series has been substantially
> >>>> reworked, new features (and most probably bugs) have been added, and
> >>>> the whole thing rebased multiple times. If anything breaks, please
> >>>> blame me, and nobody else.
> >>>>
> >>>> As you can tell, this is quite big. It is also remarkably incomplete
> >>>> (we're missing many critical bits for fully emulate EL2), but the idea
> >>>> is to start merging things early in order to reduce the maintenance
> >>>> headache. What we want to achieve is that with NV disabled, there is
> >>>> no performance overhead and no regression. The only thing I intend to
> >>>> merge ASAP is the first patch in the series, because it should have
> >>>> zero effect and is a reasonable cleanup.
> >>>>
> >>>> The series is roughly divided in 4 parts: exception handling, memory
> >>>> virtualization, interrupts and timers. There are of course some
> >>>> dependencies, but you'll hopefully get the gist of it.
> >>>>
> >>>> For the most courageous of you, I've put out a branch[1] containing this
> >>>> and a bit more. Of course, you'll need some userspace. Andre maintains
> >>>> a hacked version of kvmtool[1] that takes a --nested option, allowing
> >>>> the guest to be started at EL2. You can run the whole stack in the
> >>>> Foundation model. Don't be in a hurry ;-).
> >>>>
> >>>> [1] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms.git kvm-arm64/nv-wip-5.2-rc5
> >>>> [2] git://linux-arm.org/kvmtool.git nv/nv-wip-5.2-rc5
> >>>>
> >>>> Andre Przywara (4):
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Handle virtual EL2 registers in
> >>>> vcpu_read/write_sys_reg()
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Save/Restore vEL2 sysregs
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Handle traps for timer _EL02 and _EL2 sysregs
> >>>> accessors
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: vgic: Allow userland to set VGIC maintenance IRQ
> >>>>
> >>>> Christoffer Dall (16):
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Introduce nested virtualization VCPU feature
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Reset VCPU to EL2 registers if VCPU nested virt is set
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Allow userspace to set PSR_MODE_EL2x
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Add nested virt VCPU primitives for vEL2 VCPU state
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Handle trapped ERET from virtual EL2
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Emulate PSTATE.M for a guest hypervisor
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Trap EL1 VM register accesses in virtual EL2
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Only toggle cache for virtual EL2 when SCTLR_EL2
> >>>> changes
> >>>> KVM: arm/arm64: nv: Support multiple nested stage 2 mmu structures
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Implement nested Stage-2 page table walk logic
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Handle shadow stage 2 page faults
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Unmap/flush shadow stage 2 page tables
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: arch_timer: Support hyp timer emulation
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: vgic-v3: Take cpu_if pointer directly instead of vcpu
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: vgic: Emulate the HW bit in software
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Add nested GICv3 tracepoints
> >>>>
> >>>> Dave Martin (1):
> >>>> KVM: arm64: Migrate _elx sysreg accessors to msr_s/mrs_s
> >>>>
> >>>> Jintack Lim (21):
> >>>> arm64: Add ARM64_HAS_NESTED_VIRT cpufeature
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Add EL2 system registers to vcpu context
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Support virtual EL2 exceptions
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Inject HVC exceptions to the virtual EL2
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Trap SPSR_EL1, ELR_EL1 and VBAR_EL1 from virtual EL2
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Trap CPACR_EL1 access in virtual EL2
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Set a handler for the system instruction traps
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Handle PSCI call via smc from the guest
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Respect virtual HCR_EL2.TWX setting
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Respect virtual CPTR_EL2.TFP setting
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Respect the virtual HCR_EL2.NV bit setting
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Respect virtual HCR_EL2.TVM and TRVM settings
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Respect the virtual HCR_EL2.NV1 bit setting
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Emulate EL12 register accesses from the virtual EL2
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Configure HCR_EL2 for nested virtualization
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Pretend we only support larger-than-host page sizes
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Introduce sys_reg_desc.forward_trap
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Rework the system instruction emulation framework
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Trap and emulate AT instructions from virtual EL2
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Trap and emulate TLBI instructions from virtual EL2
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Nested GICv3 Support
> >>>>
> >>>> Marc Zyngier (17):
> >>>> KVM: arm64: Move __load_guest_stage2 to kvm_mmu.h
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Reset VMPIDR_EL2 and VPIDR_EL2 to sane values
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Handle SPSR_EL2 specially
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Refactor vcpu_{read,write}_sys_reg
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Don't expose SVE to nested guests
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Hide RAS from nested guests
> >>>> KVM: arm/arm64: nv: Factor out stage 2 page table data from struct kvm
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Move last_vcpu_ran to be per s2 mmu
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Don't always start an S2 MMU search from the beginning
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Propagate CNTVOFF_EL2 to the virtual EL1 timer
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Load timer before the GIC
> >>>> KVM: arm64: nv: Implement maintenance interrupt forwarding
> >>>> arm64: KVM: nv: Add handling of EL2-specific timer registers
> >>>> arm64: KVM: nv: Honor SCTLR_EL2.SPAN on entering vEL2
> >>>> arm64: KVM: nv: Handle SCTLR_EL2 RES0/RES1 bits
> >>>> arm64: KVM: nv: Restrict S2 RD/WR permissions to match the guest's
> >>>> arm64: KVM: nv: Allow userspace to request KVM_ARM_VCPU_NESTED_VIRT
> >>>>
> >>>> .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 +
> >>>> .../virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-v3.txt | 9 +
> >>>> arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_asm.h | 5 +-
> >>>> arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h | 3 +
> >>>> arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 31 +-
> >>>> arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_hyp.h | 25 +-
> >>>> arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h | 83 +-
> >>>> arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_nested.h | 9 +
> >>>> arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h | 1 +
> >>>> arch/arm/kvm/hyp/switch.c | 11 +-
> >>>> arch/arm/kvm/hyp/tlb.c | 13 +-
> >>>> arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h | 3 +-
> >>>> arch/arm64/include/asm/esr.h | 4 +-
> >>>> arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_arm.h | 28 +-
> >>>> arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h | 9 +-
> >>>> arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_coproc.h | 2 +-
> >>>> arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h | 157 +-
> >>>> arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 105 +-
> >>>> arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_hyp.h | 82 +-
> >>>> arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h | 62 +-
> >>>> arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_nested.h | 68 +
> >>>> arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h | 143 +-
> >>>> arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h | 2 +
> >>>> arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 26 +
> >>>> arch/arm64/kvm/Makefile | 4 +
> >>>> arch/arm64/kvm/emulate-nested.c | 223 +++
> >>>> arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c | 6 +
> >>>> arch/arm64/kvm/handle_exit.c | 76 +-
> >>>> arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/Makefile | 1 +
> >>>> arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/at.c | 217 +++
> >>>> arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c | 86 +-
> >>>> arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/sysreg-sr.c | 267 ++-
> >>>> arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/tlb.c | 129 +-
> >>>> arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vgic-v2-cpuif-proxy.c | 2 +-
> >>>> arch/arm64/kvm/inject_fault.c | 12 -
> >>>> arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c | 551 +++++++
> >>>> arch/arm64/kvm/regmap.c | 4 +-
> >>>> arch/arm64/kvm/reset.c | 7 +
> >>>> arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c | 1460 +++++++++++++++--
> >>>> arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.h | 6 +
> >>>> arch/arm64/kvm/trace.h | 58 +-
> >>>> include/kvm/arm_arch_timer.h | 6 +
> >>>> include/kvm/arm_vgic.h | 28 +-
> >>>> virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c | 158 +-
> >>>> virt/kvm/arm/arm.c | 62 +-
> >>>> virt/kvm/arm/hyp/vgic-v3-sr.c | 35 +-
> >>>> virt/kvm/arm/mmio.c | 12 +-
> >>>> virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c | 445 +++--
> >>>> virt/kvm/arm/trace.h | 6 +-
> >>>> virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-init.c | 30 +
> >>>> virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-kvm-device.c | 22 +
> >>>> virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-nested-trace.h | 137 ++
> >>>> virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v2.c | 10 +-
> >>>> virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v3-nested.c | 236 +++
> >>>> virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v3.c | 40 +-
> >>>> virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.c | 74 +-
> >>>> 56 files changed, 4683 insertions(+), 612 deletions(-)
> >>>> create mode 100644 arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_nested.h
> >>>> create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_nested.h
> >>>> create mode 100644 arch/arm64/kvm/emulate-nested.c
> >>>> create mode 100644 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/at.c
> >>>> create mode 100644 arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c
> >>>> create mode 100644 virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-nested-trace.h
> >>>> create mode 100644 virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v3-nested.c
> >>>>
> >>> When working on adding support for EL2 to kvm-unit-tests I was able to trigger
> >>> the following warning:
> >>>
> >>> # ./lkvm run -f psci.flat -m 128 -c 8 --console serial --irqchip gicv3 --nested
> >>> # lkvm run --firmware psci.flat -m 128 -c 8 --name guest-151
> >>> Info: Placing fdt at 0x80200000 - 0x80210000
> >>> # Warning: The maximum recommended amount of VCPUs is 4
> >>> chr_testdev_init: chr-testdev: can't find a virtio-console
> >>> INFO: PSCI version 1.0
> >>> PASS: invalid-function
> >>> PASS: affinity-info-on
> >>> PASS: affinity-info-off
> >>> [   24.381266] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 160 at
> >>> arch/arm64/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c:170
> >>> kvm_timer_irq_can_fire+0xc/0x30
> >>> [   24.381366] Modules linked in:
> >>> [   24.381466] CPU: 3 PID: 160 Comm: kvm-vcpu-1 Not tainted
> >>> 5.2.0-rc5-00060-g7dbce63bd1c7 #145
> >>> [   24.381566] Hardware name: Foundation-v8A (DT)
> >>> [   24.381566] pstate: 40400009 (nZcv daif +PAN -UAO)
> >>> [   24.381666] pc : kvm_timer_irq_can_fire+0xc/0x30
> >>> [   24.381766] lr : timer_emulate+0x24/0x98
> >>> [   24.381766] sp : ffff000013d8b780
> >>> [   24.381866] x29: ffff000013d8b780 x28: ffff80087a639b80
> >>> [   24.381966] x27: ffff000010ba8648 x26: ffff000010b71b40
> >>> [   24.382066] x25: ffff80087a63a100 x24: 0000000000000000
> >>> [   24.382111] x23: 000080086ca54000 x22: ffff0000100ce260
> >>> [   24.382166] x21: ffff800875e7c918 x20: ffff800875e7a800
> >>> [   24.382275] x19: ffff800875e7ca08 x18: 0000000000000000
> >>> [   24.382366] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000
> >>> [   24.382466] x15: 0000000000000000 x14: 0000000000002118
> >>> [   24.382566] x13: 0000000000002190 x12: 0000000000002280
> >>> [   24.382566] x11: 0000000000002208 x10: 0000000000000040
> >>> [   24.382666] x9 : ffff000012dc3b38 x8 : 0000000000000000
> >>> [   24.382766] x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : ffff80087ac00248
> >>> [   24.382866] x5 : 000080086ca54000 x4 : 0000000000002118
> >>> [   24.382966] x3 : eeeeeeeeeeeeeeef x2 : ffff800875e7c918
> >>> [   24.383066] x1 : 0000000000000001 x0 : ffff800875e7ca08
> >>> [   24.383066] Call trace:
> >>> [   24.383166]  kvm_timer_irq_can_fire+0xc/0x30
> >>> [   24.383266]  kvm_timer_vcpu_load+0x9c/0x1a0
> >>> [   24.383366]  kvm_arch_vcpu_load+0xb0/0x1f0
> >>> [   24.383366]  kvm_sched_in+0x1c/0x28
> >>> [   24.383466]  finish_task_switch+0xd8/0x1d8
> >>> [   24.383566]  __schedule+0x248/0x4a0
> >>> [   24.383666]  preempt_schedule_irq+0x60/0x90
> >>> [   24.383666]  el1_irq+0xd0/0x180
> >>> [   24.383766]  kvm_handle_guest_abort+0x0/0x3a0
> >>> [   24.383866]  kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x41c/0x688
> >>> [   24.383866]  kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x4c0/0x838
> >>> [   24.383966]  do_vfs_ioctl+0xb8/0x878
> >>> [   24.384077]  ksys_ioctl+0x84/0x90
> >>> [   24.384166]  __arm64_sys_ioctl+0x18/0x28
> >>> [   24.384166]  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xb0/0x168
> >>> [   24.384266]  el0_svc_handler+0x28/0x78
> >>> [   24.384366]  el0_svc+0x8/0xc
> >>> [   24.384366] ---[ end trace 37a32293e43ac12c ]---
> >>> [   24.384666] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 160 at
> >>> arch/arm64/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c:170
> >>> kvm_timer_irq_can_fire+0xc/0x30
> >>> [   24.384766] Modules linked in:
> >>> [   24.384866] CPU: 3 PID: 160 Comm: kvm-vcpu-1 Tainted: G W
> >>> 5.2.0-rc5-00060-g7dbce63bd1c7 #145
> >>> [   24.384966] Hardware name: Foundation-v8A (DT)
> >>> [   24.384966] pstate: 40400009 (nZcv daif +PAN -UAO)
> >>> [   24.385066] pc : kvm_timer_irq_can_fire+0xc/0x30
> >>> [   24.385166] lr : timer_emulate+0x24/0x98
> >>> [   24.385166] sp : ffff000013d8b780
> >>> [   24.385266] x29: ffff000013d8b780 x28: ffff80087a639b80
> >>> [   24.385366] x27: ffff000010ba8648 x26: ffff000010b71b40
> >>> [   24.385466] x25: ffff80087a63a100 x24: 0000000000000000
> >>> [   24.385466] x23: 000080086ca54000 x22: ffff0000100ce260
> >>> [   24.385566] x21: ffff800875e7c918 x20: ffff800875e7a800
> >>> [   24.385666] x19: ffff800875e7ca80 x18: 0000000000000000
> >>> [   24.385766] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000
> >>> [   24.385866] x15: 0000000000000000 x14: 0000000000002118
> >>> [   24.385966] x13: 0000000000002190 x12: 0000000000002280
> >>> [   24.385966] x11: 0000000000002208 x10: 0000000000000040
> >>> [   24.386066] x9 : ffff000012dc3b38 x8 : 0000000000000000
> >>> [   24.386166] x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : ffff80087ac00248
> >>> [   24.386266] x5 : 000080086ca54000 x4 : 0000000000002118
> >>> [   24.386366] x3 : eeeeeeeeeeeeeeef x2 : ffff800875e7c918
> >>> [   24.386466] x1 : 0000000000000001 x0 : ffff800875e7ca80
> >>> [   24.386466] Call trace:
> >>> [   24.386566]  kvm_timer_irq_can_fire+0xc/0x30
> >>> [   24.386666]  kvm_timer_vcpu_load+0xa8/0x1a0
> >>> [   24.386666]  kvm_arch_vcpu_load+0xb0/0x1f0
> >>> [   24.386898]  kvm_sched_in+0x1c/0x28
> >>> [   24.386966]  finish_task_switch+0xd8/0x1d8
> >>> [   24.387166]  __schedule+0x248/0x4a0
> >>> [   24.387354]  preempt_schedule_irq+0x60/0x90
> >>> [   24.387366]  el1_irq+0xd0/0x180
> >>> [   24.387466]  kvm_handle_guest_abort+0x0/0x3a0
> >>> [   24.387566]  kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x41c/0x688
> >>> [   24.387566]  kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x4c0/0x838
> >>> [   24.387666]  do_vfs_ioctl+0xb8/0x878
> >>> [   24.387766]  ksys_ioctl+0x84/0x90
> >>> [   24.387866]  __arm64_sys_ioctl+0x18/0x28
> >>> [   24.387866]  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xb0/0x168
> >>> [   24.387966]  el0_svc_handler+0x28/0x78
> >>> [   24.388066]  el0_svc+0x8/0xc
> >>> [   24.388066] ---[ end trace 37a32293e43ac12d ]---
> >>> PASS: cpu-on
> >>> SUMMARY: 4 te[   24.390266] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 160 at
> >>> arch/arm64/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c:170
> >>> kvm_timer_irq_can_fire+0xc/0x30
> >>> s[   24.390366] Modules linked in:
> >>> ts[   24.390366] CPU: 3 PID: 160 Comm: kvm-vcpu-1 Tainted: G W
> >>> 5.2.0-rc5-00060-g7dbce63bd1c7 #145
> >>> [   24.390566] Hardware name: Foundation-v8A (DT)
> >>>
> >>> [   24.390795] pstate: 40400009 (nZcv daif +PAN -UAO)
> >>> [   24.390866] pc : kvm_timer_irq_can_fire+0xc/0x30
> >>> [   24.390966] lr : timer_emulate+0x24/0x98
> >>> [   24.391066] sp : ffff000013d8b780
> >>> [   24.391066] x29: ffff000013d8b780 x28: ffff80087a639b80
> >>> [   24.391166] x27: ffff000010ba8648 x26: ffff000010b71b40
> >>> [   24.391266] x25: ffff80087a63a100 x24: 0000000000000000
> >>> [   24.391366] x23: 000080086ca54000 x22: 0000000000000003
> >>> [   24.391466] x21: ffff800875e7c918 x20: ffff800875e7a800
> >>> [   24.391466] x19: ffff800875e7ca08 x18: 0000000000000000
> >>> [   24.391566] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000
> >>> [   24.391666] x15: 0000000000000000 x14: 0000000000002118
> >>> [   24.391766] x13: 0000000000002190 x12: 0000000000002280
> >>> [   24.391866] x11: 0000000000002208 x10: 0000000000000040
> >>> [   24.391942] x9 : ffff000012dc3b38 x8 : 0000000000000000
> >>> [   24.391966] x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : ffff80087ac00248
> >>> [   24.392066] x5 : 000080086ca54000 x4 : 0000000000002118
> >>> [   24.392166] x3 : eeeeeeeeeeeeeeef x2 : ffff800875e7c918
> >>> [   24.392269] x1 : 0000000000000001 x0 : ffff800875e7ca08
> >>> [   24.392366] Call trace:
> >>> [   24.392433]  kvm_timer_irq_can_fire+0xc/0x30
> >>> [   24.392466]  kvm_timer_vcpu_load+0x9c/0x1a0
> >>> [   24.392597]  kvm_arch_vcpu_load+0xb0/0x1f0
> >>> [   24.392666]  kvm_sched_in+0x1c/0x28
> >>> [   24.392766]  finish_task_switch+0xd8/0x1d8
> >>> [   24.392766]  __schedule+0x248/0x4a0
> >>> [   24.392866]  preempt_schedule_irq+0x60/0x90
> >>> [   24.392966]  el1_irq+0xd0/0x180
> >>> [   24.392966]  kvm_handle_guest_abort+0x0/0x3a0
> >>> [   24.393066]  kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x41c/0x688
> >>> [   24.393166]  kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x4c0/0x838
> >>> [   24.393266]  do_vfs_ioctl+0xb8/0x878
> >>> [   24.393266]  ksys_ioctl+0x84/0x90
> >>> [   24.393366]  __arm64_sys_ioctl+0x18/0x28
> >>> [   24.393466]  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xb0/0x168
> >>> [   24.393566]  el0_svc_handler+0x28/0x78
> >>> [   24.393566]  el0_svc+0x8/0xc
> >>> [   24.393666] ---[ end trace 37a32293e43ac12e ]---
> >>> [   24.393866] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 160 at
> >>> arch/arm64/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c:170
> >>> kvm_timer_irq_can_fire+0xc/0x30
> >>> [   24.394066] Modules linked in:
> >>> [   24.394266] CPU: 3 PID: 160 Comm: kvm-vcpu-1 Tainted: G W
> >>> 5.2.0-rc5-00060-g7dbce63bd1c7 #145
> >>> [   24.394366] Hardware name: Foundation-v8A (DT)
> >>> [   24.394466] pstate: 40400009 (nZcv daif +PAN -UAO)
> >>> [   24.394466] pc : kvm_timer_irq_can_fire+0xc/0x30
> >>> [   24.394566] lr : timer_emulate+0x24/0x98
> >>> [   24.394666] sp : ffff000013d8b780
> >>> [   24.394727] x29: ffff000013d8b780 x28: ffff80087a639b80
> >>> [   24.394766] x27: ffff000010ba8648 x26: ffff000010b71b40
> >>> [   24.394866] x25: ffff80087a63a100 x24: 0000000000000000
> >>> [   24.394966] x23: 000080086ca54000 x22: 0000000000000003
> >>> [   24.394966] x21: ffff800875e7c918 x20: ffff800875e7a800
> >>> [   24.395066] x19: ffff800875e7ca80 x18: 0000000000000000
> >>> [   24.395166] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000
> >>> [   24.395266] x15: 0000000000000000 x14: 0000000000002118
> >>> [   24.395383] x13: 0000000000002190 x12: 0000000000002280
> >>> [   24.395466] x11: 0000000000002208 x10: 0000000000000040
> >>> [   24.395547] x9 : ffff000012dc3b38 x8 : 0000000000000000
> >>> [   24.395666] x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : ffff80087ac00248
> >>> [   24.395866] x5 : 000080086ca54000 x4 : 0000000000002118
> >>> [   24.395966] x3 : eeeeeeeeeeeeeeef x2 : ffff800875e7c918
> >>> [   24.396066] x1 : 0000000000000001 x0 : ffff800875e7ca80
> >>> [   24.396066] Call trace:
> >>> [   24.396166]  kvm_timer_irq_can_fire+0xc/0x30
> >>> [   24.396266]  kvm_timer_vcpu_load+0xa8/0x1a0
> >>> [   24.396366]  kvm_arch_vcpu_load+0xb0/0x1f0
> >>> [   24.396366]  kvm_sched_in+0x1c/0x28
> >>> [   24.396466]  finish_task_switch+0xd8/0x1d8
> >>> [   24.396566]  __schedule+0x248/0x4a0
> >>> [   24.396666]  preempt_schedule_irq+0x60/0x90
> >>> [   24.396666]  el1_irq+0xd0/0x180
> >>> [   24.396766]  kvm_handle_guest_abort+0x0/0x3a0
> >>> [   24.396866]  kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x41c/0x688
> >>> [   24.396866]  kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x4c0/0x838
> >>> [   24.397021]  do_vfs_ioctl+0xb8/0x878
> >>> [   24.397066]  ksys_ioctl+0x84/0x90
> >>> [   24.397166]  __arm64_sys_ioctl+0x18/0x28
> >>> [   24.397348]  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xb0/0x168
> >>> [   24.397366]  el0_svc_handler+0x28/0x78
> >>> [   24.397566]  el0_svc+0x8/0xc
> >>> [   24.397676] ---[ end trace 37a32293e43ac12f ]---
> >>>
> >>> # KVM compatibility warning.
> >>> virtio-9p device was not detected.
> >>> While you have requested a virtio-9p device, the guest kernel did not
> >>> initialize it.
> >>> Please make sure that the guest kernel was compiled with
> >>> CONFIG_NET_9P_VIRTIO=y enabled in .config.
> >>>
> >>> # KVM compatibility warning.
> >>> virtio-net device was not detected.
> >>> While you have requested a virtio-net device, the guest kernel did not
> >>> initialize it.
> >>> Please make sure that the guest kernel was compiled with CONFIG_VIRTIO_NET=y
> >>> enabled in .config.
> >>>
> >>> [..]
> >> Did some investigating and this was caused by a bug in kvm-unit-tests (the fix
> >> for it will be part of the EL2 patches for kvm-unit-tests). The guest was trying
> >> to fetch an instruction from address 0x200, which KVM interprets as a prefetch
> >> abort on an I/O address and ends up calling kvm_inject_pabt. The code from
> >> arch/arm64/kvm/inject_fault.c doesn't know anything about nested virtualization,
> >> and it sets the VCPU mode directly to PSR_MODE_EL1h. This makes_hyp_ctxt return
> >> false, and get_timer_map will return an incorrect mapping.
> >>
> >> On next kvm_timer_vcpu_put, the direct timers will be {p,v}timer, and
> >> h{p,v}timer->loaded will not be set to false. In the corresponding call to
> >> kvm_timer_vcpu_load, KVM will try to emulate the hptimer and hvtimer, which
> >> still have loaded = true. And this causes the warning I saw.
> >>
> > Hi Alexandru,
> >
> > While a unit test in kvm-unit-tests may not do what it should in order to
> > exercise the code it's targeting appropriately, and therefore need to be
> > fixed in order to do that, I'd argue that if a guest can induce a host
> > warning then that's a host bug. Indeed now that you've analyzed the
> > issue you could write a kvm-unit-tests test to specifically reproduce the
> > warning and then use that test to test any host fix candidates.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > drew
> >
> It was a host bug triggered by a bug in kvm-unit-tests. The kvm-unit-tests bug
> is a real bug because it goes against the intent of the psci test. It wasn't
> discovered until now because with the upstream version of Linux we don't get any
> messages about it. I'll post a patch for it as soon as I can and we can discuss
> how we want to fix it :)
>

Great, that's how I understood it, but it wasn't clear from your original
message that we were also acknowledging the host bug, only the
kvm-unit-tests bug. I wanted to make sure we fix both.

Thanks,
drew