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* [PATCH 0/2] KVM: arm64: Synchronise speculative page table walks on translation regime change
@ 2023-03-30 10:04 Marc Zyngier
  2023-03-30 10:04 ` [PATCH 1/2] KVM: arm64: nvhe: Synchronise with page table walker on MMU update Marc Zyngier
  2023-03-30 10:04 ` [PATCH 2/2] KVM: arm64: vhe: " Marc Zyngier
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Marc Zyngier @ 2023-03-30 10:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kvmarm, kvm, linux-arm-kernel
  Cc: James Morse, Suzuki K Poulose, Oliver Upton, Zenghui Yu,
	Will Deacon

It recently became apparent that the way we switch our EL1&0
translation regime is not entirely fool proof.

On taking an exception from EL1&0 to EL2(&0), the page table walker is
allowed to carry on with speculative walks started from EL1&0 while
running at EL2 (see R_LFHQG). Given that the PTW may be actively using
the EL1&0 system registers, the only safe way to deal with it is to
issue a DSB before changing any of it.

We already did the right thing for SPE and TRBE, but ignored the PTW
for unknown reasons (probably because the architecture wasn't crystal
clear at the time).

This requires a bit of surgery in the nvhe code, though most of these
patches are comments so that my future self can understand the purpose
of these barriers. The VHE code is largely unaffected, thanks to the
DSB in the context switch.

Marc Zyngier (2):
  KVM: arm64: nvhe: Synchronise with page table walker on MMU update
  KVM: arm64: vhe: Synchronise with page table walker on MMU update

 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/debug-sr.c    |  2 --
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c |  7 +++++++
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/switch.c      | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/tlb.c         |  7 +++++++
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vhe/sysreg-sr.c    | 12 ++++++++++++
 5 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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2.34.1


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