From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from mm01.cs.columbia.edu (mm01.cs.columbia.edu [128.59.11.253]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C7B6C433F5 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2022 11:41:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mm01.cs.columbia.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B1DD40C0A; Mon, 14 Feb 2022 06:41:24 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: at lists.cs.columbia.edu Authentication-Results: mm01.cs.columbia.edu (amavisd-new); dkim=softfail (fail, message has been altered) header.i=@kernel.org Received: from mm01.cs.columbia.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mm01.cs.columbia.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id HtFnDnikY01S; Mon, 14 Feb 2022 06:41:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from mm01.cs.columbia.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mm01.cs.columbia.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C81549B0C; Mon, 14 Feb 2022 06:41:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mm01.cs.columbia.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id C97F440C0A for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2022 06:41:21 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: at lists.cs.columbia.edu Received: from mm01.cs.columbia.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mm01.cs.columbia.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id uTLaeJmKbqIp for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2022 06:41:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from ams.source.kernel.org (ams.source.kernel.org [145.40.68.75]) by mm01.cs.columbia.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A373D4087B for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2022 06:41:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ams.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 208E0B80E61; Mon, 14 Feb 2022 11:41:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AD4C3C340E9; Mon, 14 Feb 2022 11:41:17 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1644838877; bh=3BY0+oBaGeuz3GbarqpFktWz85tdWsJYhePtRlV0rWY=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=nqbpe/MwLiK0hjcHwjC4tZ3oLrBfkYvzpNDqStYjFR0Q7IQfDUy2t4hCB2UiMj10t /dvm2YnhufyVgqGEOLrb21tdRZrkik3idw/fw3wGTl6RYoXvuk04T/WQrmVuhldrBy A82KnXGws7miSkRqw8ReUHeEXIFgzbyVD0n9PLLr9RvI37oz/k2JmBeGlARlA41g8A NC+38QGNalX4LCz6HaASSQlCBL6gwJtLeCz/ICG6MFaPbeUbpAZPbABYrbWFgfD0lO TNquDn9PmmhGQ0tpnhF8d0Bi4sUzc8DMbax8hepXrHpUOw4ZDvo/DQPMMuMm/meM6G tENKayKzRNkFg== Received: from sofa.misterjones.org ([185.219.108.64] helo=why.misterjones.org) by disco-boy.misterjones.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1nJZjH-007l6H-Bh; Mon, 14 Feb 2022 11:41:15 +0000 Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 11:41:14 +0000 Message-ID: <87mtit4qw5.wl-maz@kernel.org> From: Marc Zyngier To: Kalesh Singh Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] KVM: arm64: Hypervisor stack enhancements In-Reply-To: <20220210224220.4076151-1-kaleshsingh@google.com> References: <20220210224220.4076151-1-kaleshsingh@google.com> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI-EPG/1.14.7 (Harue) FLIM-LB/1.14.9 (=?UTF-8?B?R29qxY0=?=) APEL-LB/10.8 EasyPG/1.0.0 Emacs/27.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI-EPG 1.14.7 - "Harue") X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 185.219.108.64 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: kaleshsingh@google.com, will@kernel.org, qperret@google.com, tabba@google.com, surenb@google.com, kernel-team@android.com, catalin.marinas@arm.com, james.morse@arm.com, alexandru.elisei@arm.com, suzuki.poulose@arm.com, ardb@kernel.org, mark.rutland@arm.com, pasha.tatashin@soleen.com, joey.gouly@arm.com, pcc@google.com, qwandor@google.com, ascull@google.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: maz@kernel.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on disco-boy.misterjones.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Cc: Pasha Tatashin , will@kernel.org, Peter Collingbourne , kernel-team@android.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Joey Gouly , kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, Andrew Walbran , Catalin Marinas , Paolo Bonzini , surenb@google.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-BeenThere: kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Where KVM/ARM decisions are made List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: kvmarm-bounces@lists.cs.columbia.edu Sender: kvmarm-bounces@lists.cs.columbia.edu On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 22:41:41 +0000, Kalesh Singh wrote: > > This series is based on v5.17-rc3 and adds the following stack features to > the KVM nVHE hypervisor: > > == Hyp Stack Guard Pages == > > Based on the technique used by arm64 VMAP_STACK to detect overflow. > i.e. the stack is aligned to twice its size which ensure that the > 'stack shift' bit of any valid SP is 0. The 'stack shift' bit can be > tested in the exception entry to detect overflow without corrupting GPRs. Having quickly parsed the code, this seems to only be effective for pKVM and the EL2-allocated stack. Is there any technical reason not to implement this for the much more common case of 'classic' KVM in nVHE mode? Thanks, M. -- Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. _______________________________________________ kvmarm mailing list kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/kvmarm