From: christoffer.dall@linaro.org (Christoffer Dall)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v4 19/19] arm64: Update the KVM memory map documentation
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 21:28:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180118202831.GG21802@cbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180104184334.16571-20-marc.zyngier@arm.com>
On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 06:43:34PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Update the documentation to reflect the new tricks we play on the
> EL2 mappings...
>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
> ---
> Documentation/arm64/memory.txt | 8 +++++---
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/memory.txt b/Documentation/arm64/memory.txt
> index 671bc0639262..ea64e20037f6 100644
> --- a/Documentation/arm64/memory.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/arm64/memory.txt
> @@ -86,9 +86,11 @@ Translation table lookup with 64KB pages:
> +-------------------------------------------------> [63] TTBR0/1
>
>
> -When using KVM without the Virtualization Host Extensions, the hypervisor
> -maps kernel pages in EL2 at a fixed offset from the kernel VA. See the
> -kern_hyp_va macro for more details.
> +When using KVM without the Virtualization Host Extensions, the
> +hypervisor maps kernel pages in EL2 at a fixed offset (modulo a random
> +offset) from the linear mapping. See the kern_hyp_va macro and
> +kvm_update_va_mask function for more details. MMIO devices such as
> +GICv2 gets mapped next to the HYP idmap page.
>
> When using KVM with the Virtualization Host Extensions, no additional
> mappings are created, since the host kernel runs directly in EL2.
> --
> 2.14.2
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-18 20:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-04 18:43 [PATCH v4 00/19] KVM/arm64: Randomise EL2 mappings Marc Zyngier
2018-01-04 18:43 ` [PATCH v4 01/19] arm64: asm-offsets: Avoid clashing DMA definitions Marc Zyngier
2018-01-04 18:43 ` [PATCH v4 02/19] arm64: asm-offsets: Remove unused definitions Marc Zyngier
2018-01-04 18:43 ` [PATCH v4 03/19] arm64: asm-offsets: Remove potential circular dependency Marc Zyngier
2018-01-15 8:34 ` Christoffer Dall
2018-01-15 8:42 ` Marc Zyngier
2018-01-15 9:46 ` Christoffer Dall
2018-01-04 18:43 ` [PATCH v4 04/19] arm64: alternatives: Enforce alignment of struct alt_instr Marc Zyngier
2018-01-15 9:11 ` Christoffer Dall
2018-01-04 18:43 ` [PATCH v4 05/19] arm64: alternatives: Add dynamic patching feature Marc Zyngier
2018-01-15 11:26 ` Christoffer Dall
2018-01-04 18:43 ` [PATCH v4 06/19] arm64: insn: Add N immediate encoding Marc Zyngier
2018-01-15 11:26 ` Christoffer Dall
2018-01-04 18:43 ` [PATCH v4 07/19] arm64: insn: Add encoder for bitwise operations using literals Marc Zyngier
2018-01-15 11:26 ` Christoffer Dall
2018-01-04 18:43 ` [PATCH v4 08/19] arm64: KVM: Dynamically patch the kernel/hyp VA mask Marc Zyngier
2018-01-15 11:47 ` Christoffer Dall
2018-02-15 13:11 ` Marc Zyngier
2018-02-16 9:02 ` Christoffer Dall
2018-01-04 18:43 ` [PATCH v4 09/19] arm64: cpufeatures: Drop the ARM64_HYP_OFFSET_LOW feature flag Marc Zyngier
2018-01-15 11:48 ` Christoffer Dall
2018-01-04 18:43 ` [PATCH v4 10/19] KVM: arm/arm64: Do not use kern_hyp_va() with kvm_vgic_global_state Marc Zyngier
2018-01-15 15:36 ` Christoffer Dall
2018-02-15 13:22 ` Marc Zyngier
2018-02-16 9:05 ` Christoffer Dall
2018-02-16 9:33 ` Marc Zyngier
2018-02-19 14:39 ` Christoffer Dall
2018-02-20 11:40 ` Marc Zyngier
2018-01-04 18:43 ` [PATCH v4 11/19] KVM: arm/arm64: Demote HYP VA range display to being a debug feature Marc Zyngier
2018-01-15 15:54 ` Christoffer Dall
2018-01-04 18:43 ` [PATCH v4 12/19] KVM: arm/arm64: Move ioremap calls to create_hyp_io_mappings Marc Zyngier
2018-01-15 18:07 ` Christoffer Dall
2018-01-04 18:43 ` [PATCH v4 13/19] KVM: arm/arm64: Keep GICv2 HYP VAs in kvm_vgic_global_state Marc Zyngier
2018-01-18 14:39 ` Christoffer Dall
2018-01-04 18:43 ` [PATCH v4 14/19] KVM: arm/arm64: Move HYP IO VAs to the "idmap" range Marc Zyngier
2018-01-18 14:39 ` Christoffer Dall
2018-02-15 13:52 ` Marc Zyngier
2018-02-16 9:25 ` Christoffer Dall
2018-02-16 15:20 ` Marc Zyngier
2018-01-04 18:43 ` [PATCH v4 15/19] arm64; insn: Add encoder for the EXTR instruction Marc Zyngier
2018-01-18 20:27 ` Christoffer Dall
2018-01-04 18:43 ` [PATCH v4 16/19] arm64: insn: Allow ADD/SUB (immediate) with LSL #12 Marc Zyngier
2018-01-18 20:28 ` Christoffer Dall
2018-01-04 18:43 ` [PATCH v4 17/19] arm64: KVM: Dynamically compute the HYP VA mask Marc Zyngier
2018-01-18 20:28 ` Christoffer Dall
2018-02-15 13:58 ` Marc Zyngier
2018-01-04 18:43 ` [PATCH v4 18/19] arm64: KVM: Introduce EL2 VA randomisation Marc Zyngier
2018-01-18 20:28 ` Christoffer Dall
2018-02-15 15:32 ` Marc Zyngier
2018-02-16 9:33 ` Christoffer Dall
2018-01-04 18:43 ` [PATCH v4 19/19] arm64: Update the KVM memory map documentation Marc Zyngier
2018-01-18 20:28 ` Christoffer Dall [this message]
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